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NON-CIRCULATING
O'i-O'S,
Copyright, 1912
BY
ALBERT A. POMEROY
Published 1912
Printed in the United States
Available Jrom:
HIGGINSON BOOK COMPANY
148 Washington Street
Post Office Box 778
Salem. MassachusetLs 01970
508/745-7170
This facsimile reprint has been photoreproduced
on acid-free paper manufactured to Library of Congress
standards (.-VNSI Standard C39.47-i984).
Hardcover bindings are Class A archival quality.
THE P&ANKUN PRINTING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY
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To the Memory of
DR. WILLIAM W. RODMAN
who laid the foundation of the
Pomeroy Genealogy;
To the Memory of
MRS. REBEKAH W. POMEROY BULKLEY
whose genealogical genius and intellectual qwdities
prompted her to continue the study;
And to all Descendants of
ELTWEED POMEROY
who honor their Fathers and Mothers and
who are respected by their Children^
"The History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family*
is respectfully inscribed by
ALBERT A. POMEROY
Sandusky, Ohio, March 3, 1912.
(HanUntB
Page
The Number of Your Book IX
Dedication X
Contents XI
Abbreviations XII
List of Illustrations XIII
Errata XV
Officers of the JPomeroy Family Association XVI
Part (9tt0
Page
Preface 1
PoMEROY Ancestors in Normandy 7
Sir Radulphus de La Pommeraie, Son of Roger 13
Original Investigations 15
"Raoule de La Pommeraie" 18
Holders of Land in Domesday 19
Inquisitions Post-Mortem ^
First Progenitors of the Pomeroy Family 21
PoMEROY Ancestors in England 23
The Domesday Book; or the Great Survey of England, (with translation) 24
The Honours of Berry Pomeroy 32
The Great Lay Tenants-in-Chief 37
Booklands and Manors, (The Hide, Virgate and Ferling) 38
The Honours of Bradnich, held by William Capr.\, Brother of Ralph 40
Descendants of Ralph de Pomerei 44
The Harburton Branch in Ireland 78
Calendar of the English Kings 79
Some Authorities Quoted in this History 79
Village of Berry Pomerov 80
The Castle of Berry Pomeroy • 80
The Guard-Room and Chapel in the Tower 82
Berry Pomeroy Church 83
Berry House and Vicarage 84
The Castle Mill 85
The Insurrection in Devonshire 85
Last Siege of the Castle by the Army of King Edward VI 86
Occupation of Berrv Pomeroy Castle by the Seymours 87
Beatrix (Beatrice) Pomeroy of Nether Stowey 88
Sandridge, Devonshire 88
Legends of Berry Pomeroy Castle 88
Succession of the Seymours 91
The Prince of Orange at Berry Pomeroy 92
Pomeroy Manors in Cornwall 93
Tregoney Castle. Built dy Henry de Pomeroy 94
Tremeton Manor and Castle. Erected before the Conouest 96
Castle of Saint Michael's ^Iount 100
Mount Edgcomb House and Hedingham Castle 102
CoMPTON Castle, Held by the Families of Raleigh and Guilbert 104
Mocollop Castle and H addon Hall, Home of De Vernon 105
Pomeroy Coat-of-Arms and Crests 106
The Pomeroy Achievement 109
Heraldic Key 110
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Importance of Preserving Family Records 113
Mission in Search of Records and Verification 116
Photographic Evidence from Salisbury 117
Survey of Counties Somerset and Dorset 119
Survey of Counties Devon and Cornwall 121
Eltweed Pomeroy ; His Descendants in America 124
Second Generation 138
Third Generation 146
Fourth Generation 164
Fifth Generation 192
Sixth Generation 286
Seventh Generation 429
Eighth Generation 634
Ninth Generation 774
Tenth Generation 807
Eleventh Generation 812
Pomeroy Ancestral Chart ; A Study in Heredity 813
Pomeroy Men in the Re\*olution 827
First Major-General of the Massachusetts Army 827
First Brigadier-General of the Continental Army 831
Pomeroy Men in Massachusetts Organizations 834
Pomeroy Men in Connecticut Organizations 846
Pomeroy Forage-Master in New Jersey 847
Pomeroy Men in the Colonial Wars of Connecticut and Massachusetts 848
Addenda — Lost Pomeroy Families 849
Thomas Pomeroy — "Foreigner and First Settler" 850
John Suluvan Pomeroy — ^Unknown 855
James Pomeroy of Brixham, England 856
"The Great Release" 859
Index First — Pomeroy Christian Names and Marriages 861
Index Second — Names Other than Pomeroy^ in Collateral Lines, (Include
Children and Grandchildren of Pomeroy Mothers) 893
#
AfabntrtatimtB vmt itt tl{iB (Sntralnsiral ftrgiBt^r
The abbreviations used throughout this volume are explained below or elsewhere
near the matter they refer to.
The plus mark (-h) indicates that the individual opposite whose name it stands
will be found in the next generation, (by the corresponding number), with his or
her children. The parallel ( = ) in the Index denotes marriage.
iged. unm. — ^unmarried.
b. — born. s. p. — (sine prole) without issue.
bp. or bapt. — baptized. Co. — Company or County.
Ch.^<hild. Cav.— cavalry.
Ch'n.— children. Art. — artillery.
CoL— <»llege. Inf. — infantry.
d. — died. Res. — resided, or last known residence,
dau. — daughter. Rev. — Revolution,
gen. — generation. VoL — volunteer.
gr. or grad. — graduate. Vet. — veteran,
m. — ^married.
Zll
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(Salnr flateB
Face Page
PoMEROY Arms IV
Title Page (Engraved) VI
The Pomeroy Achievement Ill
9lFirt09nnmrra atth Ifalf-tattra
Face Page
Frontispiece V
Ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle 1
Mount Saixt Michel, Xormandy 5
The Castle of Gaillard. Stronghold of Richard Coeur de Lion 8
The Hostellerie of William the Conqueror at Dives 8
The Ancient Church at Dives 15
Colon NE Commemorating the Departure of the Fleet of the Xormans 18
Statue of William the Conqueror at Falaise, Normandy 18
The Gateway, Berry Pomeroy Castle 23
Map of the River Dart, Showing the Location of Berry Pomeroy 32
St. Margaret's Tower. Berry Pomeroy C.xstle 36
D.\rtmouth Castle, Guarding the Mouth of the River Dart 40
View of Ford Abbey, Founded by William de Pomeroy 40
Village of Berry Pomeroy 44
Berry Pomeroy Church 49
Castle Cornet, Lsle of Guernsey, Capt. W^illiam de la Pomeroy, Go\*ernor 55
The Ancient Rougemont Castle, Exeter, Devon, Henry de Pomeroy,
Governor 55
The Vestibule. Berry Pomeroy Church 59
Desecr.\ted Tomb of Sir Richard de Pomeroy in Berry Pomeroy Church 59
Pomeroy Manor House at Wills, Stoke Gabriel, Devon 64
Pomeroy Manor House at Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel 64
Berry Head. Brixham. Devonshire 74
Harberton Village. Devonshire 74
North and East Views of Berry Pomeroy Castle 80
The Defaced Screen in Berry Pomeroy Church 84
Ancient Stained Glass Window, Berry Pomeroy Church 84
The Ghost Walk. Berry Pomeroy Castle 89
The Old Mill, Berry Pomeroy Castle 89
Penzance. Cornwall, the Locality of the Pomeroy ^L^NORS of Alverton 93
Ruins of Tregoney Castle, Built by Sir Henry de Pomeroy 96
Ruins of Tremeton Castle. Ancient Palace of Cornish Kings 96
Stronghold of Mount St. Michael, Cornwall 100
Compton Castle, Marldon, Devon 104
Hedingham Castle, Seat of Sir Robert de Vere 104
Family Anvil, Brought from England in 1630 by Eltweed Pomeroy 112
Broadwindsor, County Dorset, (Now Part of Beaminster) 113
Beaminster, County Dorset, Birthplace of Eltweed Pomeroy 113
St. Peter's Church, Dorchester 118
Ruins of Maiden Castle, Dorchester 118
Exeter Cathedral (The Mortuary Chapel) 121
Historic Church at Totnes 123
Ruins or Totnes Castle, Built by Judhael de Totnes 123
St. Babtbolomew^s Church, Crewkerke, Somerset 130
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Village of Crewkerne, Somerset 130
Monument Erected at Peekskill, N. Y., to the Honor of General Seth
POMEROY 168
Unveiling the Marker on the Site of the Fort Bridgman Massacre 321
Ivy-mantled Ruins of the Kitchen and Great Fire-places, Berry Pomeroy
Castle, (Your Historian in Evidence) 429
The First Postage Stamp, Issued by The Pomeroy Express 454
The Great Yew Tree. Berry Pomeroy Churchyard 510
Northern Section of Berry Pomeroy Church (Your Historian at the Gate) 510
Stone Marking the Spot where the Pequot War Ended 523
Fountain at Southport, Conn., Commemorating the End of the Pequot War 523
State Rooms and Court, Berry Pomeroy Castle 812
The Pomeroy Coat-of-Arms, with correct Crest for Descendants of Eltweed
Pomeroy 860
^urtratta
Face Page
Mary Pomeroy, (Daughter of Gen. Seth Pomeroy), (359) 211
Henry Shepherd, (1023) 212
AsAHEL Pomeroy, (362) 220
Lemuel Pomeroy, (988) 327
Hon. Samuel Clark Pomeroy, (3775) 373
Hon. Oren Pomeroy, (2203) 422
Norman Pomeroy, (4540) 620
Oren Day Pomeroy, M.D., (4624) 629
H. Sterling Pomeroy, M.D., (4629) 630
George Eltweed Pomeroy, (5180 ) 662
S. Harris Pomeroy, (5424) 665
Albert A. Pomeroy, (6047) 689
Henry Burt Pomeroy, (6637) 726
il(attuHtri)stB of V^tmh
Face Page
Tablet in the Old Church at Dives bearing the Names of the Companions
OF William the Conqueror 15
Photographs from the Domesday Book, with Translation 25-31
Letter from the Duke of Brittany to Capt. William de Pomeroy, with
Translation 54
The C>)ker Pedigree 62
Second Administration of Rich.\rd Pomeroy, Father of Eltweed 62
The Pomeroy Pedigree (two pages facing) 108
Christening of Eltwitt Pomeraye, Beaminster Parish Records 124
Marriage of Eltwide Pumery and Johana Keech, Beaminster Parish
Records 126
Baptism of Dinah, filia Eltwidi Pumery 126
Funeral of Johana uxor Eltwiti Pomery 127
Marriage Record of Eltweed Pomery and Marjory Rockett, at Crewkerne,
Somerset 128
Signatures of Eltweed Pomeroy 135-138
Commission of Seth Pomeroy as Major at Louisbourge 171
Commission of Seth Pomeroy as Colonel at Lake George 171
Col. Seth Pomeroy Chosen as First Major-General of the Massachusetts
Army in the Revolution 829
Powers of the General Officers 829
Rate of Pay Established by the House of Representatives 830
Warrant for Pay Drawn in favor of Major-General Seth Pomeroy 832
Tablet on the Walls of the Chapel at West Point as First Brigadier-
General of the Continental Army 832
xiv
Page 307, No. 955 : Mary Pomcroy to read, b. Sept. 4, 1787 ; not 1887.
Page 317, No. 2852: Anna M. Dickenson to read, m. 1880; not 1830.
Page 343, No. 3304: Elijah Pomeroy to read, b. June 11. 1786; not 1886.
Page 358, No. 1591 : Omit the death date of Thaddeus Spencer, who evidently died
soon after marriage; it was Capt. Thaddeus Spencer who died
Dec. 30, 1825.
Page 362, No. 3621: Anna Pomeroy to read, m. May, 1818; not 1718.
Page 386, No. 3969: To read son of Joel Pomerov and Dollv Miller; not Mary Hale.
Page 407, No. 4357: James Warriner Porter to read, m. (1) April 22, 1831; not 1851.
Page 418, No. 4557 : Sarah J. Taylor to read, who d. Aug. 26, 1885 ; not 1895.
Page 427, No. 2350: Marv Pomeroy to read, d. 1845; not 1835.
Page 443, No. 2649 : Third line to read, he d. 1856.
Page 770, No. 7829: Adam Rufus Brewer to read, b. Feb. 21, 1874; not 1904.
Page 780, No. 8338: Omit comma after Thomas.
Page 812, No. 10237: Walter A. Falvey to read, b. May 4, 1905.
Index First, page 869, second line, Elizabeth = Solomon Smith, 1376; not 1378.
Index First, page 871, next to last line, read, Florento L. = Nora M. Dowd.
XT
(SttxttTB of tlfp Pnmrrng IFamilg Aafiartation
President — H. Sterlixg Pomeroy, M.D., Boston, Mass.
Treasurer — George Eltweed Pomeroy, Toledo, Ohio.
Secretary and Historian — Albert A. Pomeroy, Sandusky, Ohio.
Vice-Presidents — S. Harris Pomeroy, New Rochelle, X. Y.
Mrs. William \V. Rodman, Xew Haven, Conn.
Miss Corxellx Roff Pomeroy, Southport, Conn,
Mrs. Deborah Jane Spaulding Darling, Lincoln, Mass.
Charles E. Pomeroy, Salt Lake Citv, Utah.
Exmttitir (Bammitttt
Chairman — Eltweed Pomeroy, Donna, Texas.
Henry Burt Pomeroy. Cortland, N. Y.
H. Sterling Pomeroy, iLD., Boston. Mass.
Miss Cornelia Roff Pomeroy, Southport, Conn.
Compose the Committee for the English investigation.
George Eltweed Pomeroy, Toledo, Ohio.
Albert A. Pomeroy, Sandusky, Ohio.
Committee for the American researcli.
xn
Ifirttntt
In presenting this volume to the Ponieroy Family in America, it is
my wholesome and earnest desire that you do not assume too readily
that it is a mortuarv record; that it does not contain anv information but
of birth and death dates : you are invited to discover that it also includes
a full measure of interesting historical episodes of those who first bore
the ancient and distinctive name of Pomeroy in Xormandy and England, as
well as many of the enticing enterprises of youth, as represented by the
tenth, eleventh and twelfth generations of Pomeroy Life in America. And
youth is the most charming thing under the sun.
It was actually necessary that the loose ends of those annals should be
gathered up at this time, in order that those who have worked in the field
might count the sheaves ; and that we might not encroach on the supersti-
tious and intangible thirteenth generation. It is, however, possible that
small Pomeroy representatives of the thirteenth generation have already
found the wav into the Twentieth Centurv through the channel which
has been so closely followed from the Tenth Century: but if so. they have
not vet made themselves known to the writer, and when thev come to this
register of those who arrived earlier, they will be able to locate themselves :
they will be proud to know^ who their grand fatlicr and grandmother were,
and be happy in their vitality and the unbroken flow of their mysterious
blood-strain, which has found the way into their personality through Old
World romance and New World enterprise, and
*'Let mc recite to the yet ttnknoiving zcorld
How these things came about" — Shakespeare.
It is a history; it is a faithful chronicle of the action of some of the
makers of history, and of the determined women who have supported them
for more than ten centuries in their purpose to hand to their posterity the
desirable results of their endeavor and to suggest tiiat they live again in
their children and grandchildren, with the belief that those children will
emulate and broaden the records of sterling and enduring qualities left to
them by their Sires.
As was said in the "Romance and ilistor\ of Eltweed Pomeroy,"
"however democratic a man mav be, he is usuallv vulnerable to a desirable
and wholesome ancestral pride." It is gratifying to know that many of his
ancestors were among those who laid the foundation of this great Republic.
From the time of the first settlement in Xew England to the Declaration
of Independence they were a remarkable race, and today their personal
characteristics of mind and body are represented in every state of the
Union. Their influence has been felt in the formation and development of
the government and its institutions. Practically, those Xew England Col-
onists have made the national force of which we are so proud, and which
late immigration of a diflferent nature has not wholly obliterated.
It is well known that the more frequently a manuscript has been trans-
iiiiitorg of tl|e Pomrrog J^amUg
cribed tlie wider it grows from the original, as errors will creep in, espec-
ially if such manuscript is composed of proper names and dates. As some
of the records which enter into this familv historv have been written and
rewritten many times by diverse persons it is evident that there will be
manv errors in this book, which are now unavoidable. Manv of the letters
sent out by the Annalist for more definite information have met with no
response, even with return postage inclosed. There is another phase to this
diffidence which is to be regretted, and which has made it impossible for
the Annalist to secure a complete accounting of all the descendants of
Eltweed Pomeroy. After the most persistent urging there are many of our
great ancestor's descendants who have absolutely ignored every effort to
obtain any part of their family records, and others who have but partially
responded, so that many families will be presented without well-defined
and satisfactorv information.
It has been suggested that the Annalist should hold open the avenues
of reception for another indefinite period : but if that were done there is no
warrant that those who have been indiflFerent and apathetic toward the enter-
prise during the last quarter of a century would be any better qualified to
forward their records, or demonstrate any eagerness to do so. It is there-
fore to those who have been loyal and faithful to the work that we owe its
completion as early as possible. That is the reason for tying up the loose
ends of the thousands comprehended in the study as nearly as may Ik?
that the copy may be placed in the hands of the publishers without further
delay.
During the past three years many thousands of circulars have been
sent out from this office, distributed into every state in the Union, a.sking for
information and explicit data to complete each family mosaic; and the
status of the work has been defined from time to time by carefully prepared
articles in genealogical publications, such as the Journal of American His-
tory and in pamphlets and circulars by the Secretary. Under these diffi-
culties the Annalist does not hesitate to ask the indulgence of the subscribers
if they should find that some of the lines in which they may be more or less
interested are not complete. The initial expense of this work has been borne
by six of the kinsmen, as stated below, and it is to their generous interest
that credit for this volume is due.
The Annalist presumes to designate this genealogical work by the title :
History of the Pomeroy Family." Illustrated, notwithstanding the probable
omissions referred to for the reason that it includes not onlv the families
of all the men who have responded to the various appeals, but the Pomeroy
mothers also, their children and grandchildren, so far as the data have been
furnished. While this new departure is not in accordance with genealog-
ical custom it is considered by the Annalist as commendable in many respects,
not the least of which may be mentioned the fact that the Pomeroy mothers
and their children have shed as much glory and respectability upon the name
and race as have the men. The scope of the work was originally intended
to include only the children and grandchildren of Pomeroy mothers, as
far as they elected to provide data, but the Secretary has claimed the
privilege of projecting another generation of the families whose interest
«<
3 Prrfacr
has prompted them to subscribe for a copy of the "History of the Pomcroy
Family."
In this connection, I desire to ask attention to the original method
introduced in this volume of carrying through the book the collateral lines
by presenting the descendants of Pomeroy mothers in family groups. This
system not only enables the student to comprehend the collateral lines of
each family which has been so treated, at a glance, but avoids the confusion
incident to the projection of names other than Pomeroy throughout the book
in the several generations.
The desirable features of the Ancestral Chart presented in this work
will at once be apparent. The chart is so arranged that each descendant
of Eltweed Pomeroy and his sons, Medad, Caleb, Joshua and Joseph, can
work out his or her own lines in America, and attach all of their American
ancestors to those established in the chart. Some experimental lines have
been worked out, and as none of them showed more than 200 American
ancestors, 200 was established as the number of each son of Eltweed
Pomeroy. This subject will be dwelt upon more in detail on pages adjacent
to the Chart, in order that the explanation may not be lost sight of.
Part of the earliest records contained in this book were collected by
Dr. William W. Rodman and Eltweed Pomeroy, and they were classified
by Doctor Rodman. It was also Dr. Rodman who first conceived the idea
of compiling a genealogy of the American Pomeroys. He deserves a large
share of credit for his industry and persistence, which continued up to
the time of his death. His collection then came into the hands of Mrs.
Henry Thorp Bulkley (Rebekah Wheeler Pomeroy), who continued the
research with great patience while suffering from an incurable organic
disease, and death came to her before she had fairly entered upon the labor
she loved. It is sad to reflect that her application to the work may have
deprived her of a large measure of comfort and shortened her life. It is
.said that a short time previous to her death she designated the present
Secretary as being qualified to go forward with the enterprise, and in an
evil hour, without knowledge of the difficulties and diffidence he was to
meet at every stage, he was prevailed upon to accept the task. Six earnest
kinsmen relieved the strain, however.
It is proper to state here in preface, that Mrs. Anna Grosvenor
(Pomeroy) Rodman at once forwarded the collection of Pomeroy records
of her late husband to the Secretary personally, for the benefit and use
of the Pomeroy family. Commendation is also due for the collection of
Mrs. Rebekah (Pomcroy) Bulkley, that of Sardis Pomeroy Chapman,
that of Judge George Pomeroy Cobb, that of Chester Pomeroy Dewey, that
of Eltweed Pomeroy, and that of S. Harris Pomeroy, the latter covering
a period of fifteen years.
In addition to the collections specified above, the Pomeroy Family
.Association is indebted to other members of the family for their interest
and industry in collecting and forwarding data, among whom should be
mentioned, first, Mrs. Deborah Jane Spaulding (Pomeroy) Darling, Mr.
Charles E. Pomeroy, Miss Dorliska Elizabeth Sheldon, Mrs. Lucretia
(Pomcroy) King, Dr. H. Sterling Pomeroy, Mrs. Emma Jane (Brockett)
Judd, George Pomeroy Anderson, Harry M. Sheldon and others, who not
IjiiBtorii of tl|e Pomrrog Jfamilg
only completed their own family lines for several generations, but furnished
data for manv other lines tor those who were stoically indifferent.
Of the contributions of cash that niav have been made, onlv those tliat
have come to my personal knowledge as Secretary of the Pomeroy Family
Association are acknowledged here: Mr. S. Harris Pomerov of Xew
York City, $625; Mr. George E. Pomeroy of Toledo, Ohio, $289; Dr. H.
Sterling Pomeroy of Boston, Mass., $175: Mr. Henry Burt Pomeroy of
Cortland, X. Y.. $55; Mrs. Lucretia Pomeroy of Pittsfield, Mass., $10;
Mr. Thomas M. Shepherd of X'orthampton, $10; Miss Cornelia Ellen
Hubbard of Geneseo, 111., $5 : Mr. Charles E, Pomeroy of Salt Lake City,
$10; A. A. Pomeroy of Sandusky, Ohio, $70; making a total of $1,249. Of
this amount $600 was expended in the English and French expedition, and
visit to Normandy, the expense of the Secretary ( in the interest of the Asso-
ciation) being about $6.^ per day. The expense attending the American
research, postage, printing, etc., has been about $800, of which about $350
w^as received from the sale of the Pamphlet, ''Romance and History of
Eltweed Pomeroy 's Ancestors in Normandy and England," prepared by the
Historian in 1909. The mission to England and Normandy was made
possible by a contribution of $250 by Geo. E. Pomeroy of Toledo, Ohio:
and the wish was expressed by each contributor that his offering was to be
devoted to that purpose. In addition to his contribution mentioned above.
Mr. George Eltweed Pomeroy of Toledo, Ohio, has paid $50 for painting and
engraving the handsome "achievement'* of the Pomeroy ancestors in England,
which is presented to you in this volume, with the colors and arms of some
of the allied families, whose names you will tind in the ancestral tables
which accompany this achievement.
Of the 2,000 names on the mailing list of the Secretary, but fifty-one
are members of the Pomeroy Family Association, and they have paid in
fees and dues during the three years of the life of the organization, $100.
It can, therefore, be readily understood that the so-called association has
never been depended upon for financial assistance of consequence.
As the time and labor involved in the compilation of this volume has
been done without compensation, the Annalist has the audacity to hope for
indulgence when the readers come to reckon the faults that are bound up
with anv merits the book mav contain. The *'Historv of the Pomerov
Family" is now respectfully submitted to the consideration of all interested
as a partial register of those who bear the ancient and distinctive name
Pomeroy" throughout the world.
<<
ALBERT A. POMEROY.
Sandusky, Ohio, Marcli 3, 1912.
^art (Snt
f nmrroH AniMtora in JJnnnanJig
"For a thousand years in Ihy tight
Are but as yesterday ■when it is past."
— Psalm xc.
■ HE name "Neustra" is sometimes used as equivalent to
Normandy, but of the old Neustra, Normandy formed
only a small part, as did France. France was separated
from Neiistra as Normandy was separated from France,
At its widest territory Normandy reaches the Rivers Eu
and Epte, The former empties into the English Channel
near the town of Eii, from which Richard Bienfaite, son of
Gilbert Crispin, takes his name, while the Epte flows in
the opposite direction and joins the Seine at Vernon, the ancestral home
of Herlwyn, Viscount de Vernon, who married Harleva, mother of William
the Conqueror, by whom he had Bishop Odo and Robert of Mortaine. The
two streams mentioned form the boundary nearly their entire course.
The land thus separated from France comprises the districts in which we
are inteiested, Caux, Talou, Rouen, Evreux, Lisieux, Bayeux (Bessin),
Avranches and Coutances, (the Cotentin peninsula), Hiesmois and part of
Vexin, Normandy, formed almost all the seaboard of France and the
mouth of the River Seine forms almost the entire coast line of Calvados.
That Normandy was cut off from the Duchy of the House of Paris
in the strict sense, and not from the territory of the Carolingian King, is
the key lo that abiding rivalry between the Duchies of France and Nor-
mandy which was inherent in the history of the two lands, and was an
important element in the general history of Europe. The close connection
which later arose between Normandy and England handed on to England
the inheritance of that rivalry, Robert, son of Robert the Strong, was at
this time (912) Duke of the French, and in 922 was elected opposition
King to the King of Carolingia, Charles the Simple. RoUo, who had been
christened Robert, kept faith with King Charles against both Robert. Duke
of the French, and his son, Hugh the Great, although the Duke of Paris
was his God-Father.
History cites but one short period when Normandy was divided
against itself after it had been acquired by the Northmen. This was in
1047, when Guy de Brionne, (whose descendants in three instances inter-
married with the Pomeroys), son of Reginald, Count of the Bergimdian
Palatinate, by a daughter of Richard the Good, tried to supplant William,
afterward known as the Conqueror, in the eastern district. William obtained
the help of the King of France and at the battle of Val-es-dunes fully
established his sovereignty of the entire province.
"La Normandie Illustrie" declares that the history of Normandy, that
province which has been the mother of several kingdoms, "is not less inter-
esting or worthy of remembrance than that of the greatest empires. Its
capital, Rouen, the witness of so many important events, the theatre of
so many celebrated dramas of history, the cradle of a historj' so active as
it has been industrious, merits above all others to be the object of the
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attention and study of those minds which are stimulated by an intelligent
curiosity." The second act of the drama was the departure of William the
Conqueror with his companions of Xorniandy for the Conquest of England.
And in the year 1911 Rouen is again the witness that her sons do not
forget. She is the witness of the third act of the drama, the return of
the descendants of those who played their several parts on the great stage
of life after a thousand years of civilization have sped away; a civilization
which will ever bear the hall-mark of the Norman Warrior and States-
man. Representatives in whom the Xorman blood has stirred for 1000
years have come together before the shrines of the capital of the ancient
province which was offered up by the French King as the price of peace.
It mav have been an intellisrent curiositv which led vour historian into Xor-
niandv at this time, but it is more likelv that it was an inherent love of
romantic familv historv which he was certain to find in manv localities of
this ancient province. However, he anticipated the thousandth anniversary
by a few weeks and lingered long enough at Rouen to become imbued with
the atmosphere of the splendid city, and passed on up the River Seine to
Les Andelys, where Sir Henry de Pomeroy (4th generation), then Pre-
posituro or Provost of the Duke of Normandy, was an important actor.
It was here at Les Andelys that King Richard I. of England built his
stronghold, the Castle Gaillard, called the "Saucy Castle'* on account of some
questionable events which transpired there in the time of King Louis X.
of France. While John, brother of King Richard, was King of England,
this castle and the entire province of Normandy was wrested from him by
King Philip H., hence his name of John Lackland. The castle of Gaillard
afterward became a state prison for France, and in 1314 was the scene of
the murder of Margaret of Burgundy, wife of Louis X. It was one of her
fancies to have young men, strangers, brought to her to view her charms,
after which she would have them assassinated and thrown into the River
Seine, which ran at the base of "Saucy Castle." King Richard erected
the Castle of Gaillard to command the navigation of the Seine and to pro-
tect Normandy against the French monarchs, about 1195-6, before he led
the crusade into the Holy Land. It was here, perhaps, that the feud
between King Richard and Henry de Pomeroy was established. The
latter allied himself with John in conspiracy upon the King's return from
captivity and seized Mount St. Michael in Cornwall and held it for John
against King Richard until the accession of the younger brother to the
throne of England.
On the bights above Le Petit Andely rises slowly the grim ruins of
the old Chateau Gaillard, and on the island opposite still remain the
picturesque ruins of a chateau built at an earlier date. This formidable
fortress of Richard Coeur de Lion was constructed and received its arma-
ment in a single year, and frowns upon the village of La Petit Andely from
its elevation. When King Philippe decided to acquire for France the
territorv of Normandv after the mvsterious death of Prmce Arthur at
Rouen, which was at the time ascribed to King John of England, he
placed both the fortress of Gaillard and the Chateau on the island under
siege, the progress of which was terrible to the inhabitants of La Petit
Andely, which received destruction from the bombards thrown by both
mgUold at Blclmrd Co,>iir de l.lon on ilie River Selii,
iri;r IJoatrllrrir of ffliUtam d|r (Eunqurrnr at BtnrB
KtttfBtarB Ut Nontumiig
combatants from their medieval machines. It is said that Castle Gaillard
was dismantled by King Henry 1\'. of France in 1663. as were the castles
of several dangerous Xorman Barons. However, during the French Revo-
lution it was used as a prison, and in 1795 was ceded by the convention to
the Academies or Societies of Savants, who had hitherto met in the Louvre ;
its name was then changed to Palace de 1* Institute, and it was not again
employed as a school.
Returning down the Seine from Paris to Havre, your Historian took
advantage of a batteaux, plying between that port and Trouville, to cross
the mouth of the Seine and again enter Normandy, going by rail from
Trouville to Dives, an objective point for the verification of his records,
by obtaining some more tangible proof that the name Pomeroy has endured
for upward of 900 years. Dives is notable for being the port in which
the fleet assembled which conveyed the Xorman invaders to the shores of
England. It is therefore an ancient town of great interest. The first
structure that attracts the attention of visitors is the old church where
Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, dispensed blessings and courage to the
army of invasion. Upon the wall over the main entrance is placed a stone
tablet upon which the names of the Sires and Tenants-in-Chief, Companions
of William the Conqueror in his subjugation of England, are engraved.
Conspicuous in this list is the name of our ancestor, Raoul de La Pommeraie.
As this is an evidence and a testimony, your Historian lost no time in
securing a photograph of the entire list, which will be readable in the half-
tone cut presented here. Photographs were also secured of the old church,
interior and exterior, used to illustrate these pages. This verification of
Pomeroy tradition that our name is very ancient and distinctive, is indeed
gratifying. Further investigation located the monument or coUonne il-
lustrated and described on another page, erected to commemorate the great
campaign which gave to our forefather those broad and fertile manors in the
heart of Devonshire, and Devonshire is the gem of England today. And the
dwellers in the Channel Islands, which belonged to Xormandy, naively insist
that the "Channel Islands do not belong to England, but that England
belongs to them," and they say it in their Xorman-French language.
Situated at the small village of Dives, near the sea-coast in Calvados,
is the hostellerie de Guillaume le Conquerant, one of the most ancient and
celebrated inns of France. It looks out over the barren waste of land which
has reclaimed itself from the channel, and it was from here that William,
Duke of the X^ormans, set forth for the conquest of England.
The ancient harbor at the mouth of the river Dives has been filled up
with sand, and a pillar (described on another page) marks the spot where
the Conqueror is supposed to have set sail. The village, once an important
place on the coast, contains some interesting carved houses and a church.
It is an historic and almost a sacred spot, this little Dives, with its famous
inn, and one to which the pilgrim may well repair with pleasure and
advantage.
The hotel itself is quite picturesque, a wood and plaster construction
of the Norman type, built around a court, with rambling rooms and exterior
staircases. The beams are blackened with age and carved in designs of
the sixteenth century, and the comers of the court are softened by climb-
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ing roses, wistaria, and other vines. They riot about tlie quaint balconies
of the second story, and ornament them with floral decorations charming to
behold. This is the ideal of the French inn, and is so well known and
appreciated that its fame has gone over the world.
The heroic equestrian bronze statue of the Conqueror at Falaise is
admirably executed, and well placed to attract quick interest from all
visitors. This old walled city is the birthplace of William, and though a
minor and of illegitimate birth he was accepted as Duke of the Xormans on
the death of his father. That part of his reign, which comes between the
battle of Val-es-Dunes and the invasion of England was the great day
of Normandy as a wholly independent power.
But your Historian was too far north to become personally familiar
with the Norman home of our great ancestor, and transportation being
uncertain in the French language, he made another invasion in the Chan-
nel passenger steamer Princess Ena, Arthur Xoble Pomeroy, First Officer,
the port of destination being St. Malo, by way of the Race and Swinge
past the Channel Islands. About 6.00 a. m. we ran into a fog and cast
anchor between Alderney and Cape la Hague, lying there until 4.00 p. m.
and did not reach St. Malo until 8.00 o'clock.
Castle Cornet, on the island of Guernsey, which we passed soon after
the fog lifted, has been a stronghold of importance since the days of
Henry H. Down to 1672 it was the residence of the Governor of the Island.
Here was the prison in which Gen. Lambert and other noted persons were
confined. During Edward III.'s reign the French attacked Castle Comet
but could not hold it for long. In 1372 the Castle saw some fierce fighting.
Ivan de Galles, a Welshman whose father had been executed by Edward
III, and whose estates had been forfeited, obtained ships and assistance
from Charles V. of France. He landed, and, after a severe battle, defeated
Edmund Ross, the Governor, who fled to Castle Cornet. Here he was
safe. Captain William Pomeroy (see 024 and letter from the Duke
of Brittany), a noted and scientific artillerist, was in command; the Castle
was strong and well protected by artillery. The siege was finally abandoned
by Ivan under the advice of the French King.
In December, 1643, three commissioners of Guernsey, who were in-
vested by Parliament with plenary powers and instructions to seize the
person of Sir Peter Osborne (the Royalist Governor) at Castle Cornet,
were by strategy, enticed to the castk and were themselves imprisoned
with promise of short shift. During the night they cut their way through
the floor into a room below, where was stored some cotton. A rope was
made from the cotton by means of which the commissioners escaped,
although fired upon by the sentries.
A few years later the castle was still held for the King. The garrison
capitulated on December 15, 1651, being the last in the British Isles to
submit to the Long Parliament. In 1672 the Castle was partially blown up
through lightning firing the powder magazine. Subsequently it was re-
garded unfavorably as a stronghold, for many of the defences were in
ruins. It has since been repaired and accommodates the royal artillery,
but for practical purposes of war its duties have been taken over by Fort
V
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George. Castle Cornet stands on the outermost projection of the pier in
the harbor of St Peter Port.
The city of St. Malo is built upon the rock of St Aaron, at the
mouth of the river Ranee, and the quaint houses are inclosed by imposing
ramparts. St Malo, the walled city, is on the left, and as the Princess Ena
approaches there is a splendid view. The cathedral dates from the ninth
century. The expedition we are now about to proceed with will be in the
nature of a forced march and we must go forward. The primitive rail-
ways through Normandy are very accommodating, as one must change
cars at nearly every station, thus affording the tourist an opportunity of
becoming acquainted with each hamlet on the line while waiting for the
connection. After leaving St. Malo we made stops of some duration at
Dinan and Dol, before reaching Pontorson, where a change is made to
tram-cars which run to St. Michael's Mount. Dinan is also a walled city
and actually betrays its age, having been founded about the time that Rollo
acquired the province of Normandy, 911 A. D. There is also a castle or
prison here which frowns upon the sluggish river Ranee. Bertrand du
Glesclin is the hero of Dinan. He was Constable of France, 1314-1380,
and there is a statue to his honor near the center of the place where he
met an English knight in single combat and overthrew him. The Castle was
erected in 1380 by Duke John of Brittany. Dol has a magnificent cathedral.
It does seem that if these people had a fine church edifice they were
well equipped for life against all the ills of the cold world. The castle at
Dol is owned by the Chateaubriand family. It is a few miles away from
the town and is one of the few remaining fortresses of the Norman period.
One of the chief curiosities of the village is the Menhir Stone, and to
insure its orthodoxy it supports a cross at the summit But as we are
searching for records we will proceed to Mount St. Michael, as Pontorson's
only attraction is a fine Norman church and railway center. We reach the
Mount, the last mile along a causeway, like that at Mount St. Michael in
Cornwall, built in 1880, to facilitate the passage over treacherous sands.
St. Michael's Mount in Normandy, the counterpart of St Michael's
Mount in Cornwall, is rich in historic interest, and during King John's
reign touching intimately the Pomeroy ancestry. It has been said that the
"foolish Couesnon river (between Brittany and Normandy), by its innum-
erable turnings placed St. Michael's Mount in the territory of Normandy,
when it logically belonged to Brittany." This view was also entertained
by many of the Kings of France, and several efforts were made to secure
possession of it by storm and strategy. The Mount has at all times
attracted the attention of warriors, and the granite cone, 75 meters (about
260 feet) high, which constitutes its base, has always been surmounted
by a temple and fortress. The Gauls had there a college for druidresses
where they gave oracles. The Romans, masters of Gaul, abolished the
religion of the Druids and raised an altar to Jupiter on the Mount, which
then took the name of Jupiter's Mount. The Franks, when they became
Christians, elevated on the south side of the rock two oratories. Eventually,
the Mount was acquired by Richard I., Duke of Normandy, son of William
Longsword, who took down the oratories, and in 966 had built on the
summit of the granite rock an immense church, surrounded by spacious
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and enduring embrasures. Then in a chart ratified by King Lothaire, and
by a bull of Pope John XII., he installed there thirty Benedictine
monks. From 1017 to 1023 Richard II. (The Good), Duke of Normandy,
son of Richard I., laid the foundation of a still larger edifice, enlarging
the surface by massive arches. These subterranean constructions fonu
part of the foundation of the fortress and church. In walking through
the domed apartments one feels oppressed by the immensity and weight
of che structure. In the fifteenth century the Abbey of St. Michael's
Mount attained the apogee of its grandeur. It possessed by gift not only
Tombelaine (another granite rock lying all but submerged to the Channel
front), but also the Chansy Isles, Jersey, Guernsey, and even some terri-
tory in England, including Cornwall. St. Michael's Mount was the last
stronghold remaining to King John in Xormandy. An engraving pre-
sents a vivid picture of the battle on the strand when Philip II. of France
obtained possession of the fortress, and King John acquired the surname
of John Lackland. However, the English in turn made frequent attacks
upon the Mount, and it was not until the treaty of peace in 1450 that the
abbey was delivered from its enemies. It is interesting to note that the
History of King Henry VIII. gives Sir Gyles de La Pomeroy the honor
of writing the treaty of peace which ended the one hundred years war
between France and England. Sir Gyles de La Pomeroy was the French
Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
Avranches is another walled small city, set on a hill, and is fourteen
miles from Pontorson. It is old and substantially built and quite inter-
esting with its splendid churches, the botanical gardens, and museums. It
is here that the penitential stone of Henry II. is located (formerly the
Cathedral doorstep), on which the King knelt and received absolution for
the sin he swore to the Pope's legates that he had neither committed nor
desired. The inscription recites:
"On this stone here at the door of the Cathedral of Avranches after
the murder of Thomas a' Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry II.,
King of England and Duke of Normandy, received on his knees from the
legates of the Pope the apostolic absolution, on Sunday, 21st May, 1172."
From the great park here may be seen perhaps the finest panorama
in France, and in a circuit of about twenty miles are located the towns of
Mortain, the home of the half-brother of William the Conqueror; Con-
tanville, the home of Herlwin, Mscount de Vernon, father of Bishop Odo
and Robert de Mortaine; Vere, Falaise, Coutances, the home of Bishop of
Coutances, which is but a few miles distant from St. Saveur de La
Pommeraie, the home of Radulphus, the ancestor of the American Pomeroys,
which stands some two miles to the left of the railroad ; also La Pommeray.
lying between Pontorson and Pontaubault, near the railroad; St. Lo, the
home of Richard de Bienfaite, son of Gilbert Crispin, (the guardian of
William the Conqueror), and his brother Baldwin de Mules de Brionne,
(Earl of Devonshire), Bienfaite being founder of the house of Clare;
Fougeres, Montseret, and other hamlets, some with thatched roofs. All of
the names of these Norman towns were borne by companions of William
and will be found by the reader inscribed on the tablet from the church at
Dives. Leaving Coutances, and going north by the railroad lined with apple
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orchards, Falaise was soon reached. From here a dog cart, similar to those
used in Devon, but of stronger build, conveyed \our Historian to the child-
hood home of our great ancestor, St. Sauveur de La Pommeraie. Xo one
would harbor the thought that this was the home of one of those turbulent
spirits which went forth to battle and to conquest. The dress, the stature
and the customs of the present-day Xorman have none of the aggressive
force of the habitat of the tenth century, although this thatched-roof hamlet
is perhaps in the enjoyment of the same commercial enterprise of that age.
But as far as business activity is concerned it may not be so far behind
Beaminster, the English home of Eltweed Pomeroy. our immediate ancestor.
He departed in 1630, not only to escape undesirable religious and political
conditions, but the inertia of the industrial perspective. He doubtless
found it impossible to live among the environments which obtained at Bea-
minster without an actual living income, continuous and independent of
mental or manual labor, as no one appeared to have anything to do. It
has been said that there were still some evidences of a ruined castle here
at St. Sauveur de La Pommeraie, but time has smothered them, the onlv break
in the surface of the earth and the surrounding foliage being about a mile
distant from the hamlet with its attractive church, near the headwaters of
the River Taute. To the north and east is Baieux (Bessin), famous for
its old tapestries. On one of them, during the reign of Edward the Con-
fessor, Harold the Saxon is represented as marching with the Xorman
William to Mount Saint Michel, there crossing the Coueson river, and
having many of the men in danger from the quicksands now there. In
the tapestry Mount Saint Michel is represented by a castle upon a small
hillock. The Duke and his army appear on horseback.
Continuing the journey through La Manche, we reached in due time
the city of Cherbourg, the chief naval station of France, near the western
extremity of the Cotentin peninsula. The extensive breakwater which pro-
tects the harbor was undertaken by Xapoleon and was not completed until
1850. It contains a large naval dockyard, and is defended at the eastern
approach to the harbor by Fort Imperial on the Isle Pelee, and Fort
Chavagnac, equally powerful, defends the western entrance. The naval
dockyard lies to the northwest of the town, and the docks are of great
dimensions, allow-ing war vessels of dee|) draught to enter fully equipped
with guns and stores. A line of passenger steamers owned by the London
and Southwestern railway plies regularly from Southampton to Cherbourg.
and it was upon the small steamer Southwestern that your Historian crossed
the English Channel and returned to London, with corroborative evidence
that the Pomero\' name has endured for nine hundred vears. and that our
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ancestor left monuments behind him of villages which still bear his name.
f^ fia&itl)tlpt0 ht Ca Ij^mntmtBit, &0tt of Sngrr
Manv of those interested in the Pomerov I'amilv Historv who have
^ • • •
followed up the work of the Secretary and Annalist, will recognize soine
of the material introduced in this prelude to the activities of the race in
Xormandy and England, as having been transcribed from the Pomeroy
pamphlet, ''Romance and History of Eltweed Pomeroy 's Ancestors in
Normandy and England," and from "The Journal of American History,"
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1910, in which appeared a Pomeroy article, illustrated. However, it is
necessary to reproduce some of the matter referred to in the Genealogical
Book in order that we may approach the great collection of English vital
statistics pertaining to the Pomeroy race in a logical manner and by chrono-
logical sequence, to demonstrate the great influence of the race on English
and American civilization.
Charles the Simple was King of France when Rollo, or Rolf-Ganger,
a Norwegian Chief, succeeded in establishing himself and his followers
in Normandy as an invader, and there was no peace until King Charles
gave up to him the entire province and his sister in marriage. The
Scandinavian history is as poetic as that of the Greeks, and as brave as
that of the Romans. Although the Scandinavians did not represent a
nation, they did represent a people, a race of warlike men, with ambitions
and purposes in common. Their energ>^ and enterprise of conquest caused
the results which have been looming large before the world. They lived
as plain people of endurance and as conquerors. From the desolation of
ice in which they were born and nurtured, they sailed out in their small
dragon ships and conquered England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy and
Russia, and having discovered Greenland and Iceland, colonized them. It
is insisted with some proof that they crossed the Atlantic in their small
ships of war and discovered this continent years before Columbus, and that
they anchored in Vineyard Sound and left a monument of their presence
behind them. And wherever they went they ruled as men of might.
Radulphus de Pomeraie of La Pomeraie, in Normandy, was a descen-
dant of the Norsemen, and a companion of William the Conqueror. Free-
man in his History of England has said the "Normans in the time of
William were the most turbulent and aggressive class in Europe :" but those
war-sons of the mysterious North were a magnificent race of men, and
eventually produced the noblest elements of civilization, a tribute to their
persistent energ>' and firm determination to improve their condition.
"POMERAIE: Castellans of La Pommeraie, Normandy." — (De Gerville,
Anchiens Chateaux de la Manche.)
"A fragment of this Norman stronghold still remains in the Cinglais, not
far from Falaise. It is there called Chateau Ganne (Gane1on*8 Castle), a
name given in Normandy to more than one such ruin, and commemorating the
infamous traitor of Romance, who betrayed the Christian host —
'When Charlemagne with all his peerage fell
By Fontarabia!'
"It is really the Chateaux de la Pommeraie, and here no doubt was the
original 'Pomeraie/ or orchard which gave name to the stronghold of the
family." — (Handbook of Devon.)
Tlie Tablet over the Entrance
It has been asserted by historians that, "The science which treats of
the origin and descent of families is not less important to the living than
the knowledge of history and geography." It teaches us to distinguish and
know those who have had an influence for good on the destinies of the
country in which they lived, and the character of those whose activities
have been beneficial to their fellow-men ; also, to give us clear and explicit
knowledge of the degree of relationship that exists among us.
Mr. Kech, the historian, says: "The House of Capet is the only one
that can boast of a pedigree that reaches back to the middle of the ninth
century; and that few families who have occupied the thrones of former
dynasties in Europe, can trace their genealogy beyond the twelfth cen-
tury ;" and those royal houses have been closely cared for in their integrity
by official scribes. It is to be considered, then, almost impossible for a
private family to trace its lineage back to the eleventh century under the
name of its first progenitor. However, the famous Roll of Battle Abbey
has always been considered by old families in England as a good foundation
upon which to build ancestral lines, and we will abide by that.
In the present generation no one would invest many pounds sterling to
have his name added to that Roll, and the monks would drive but a sorry
trade in comparison with their former enterprise, as they were then very
accommodating. The pride of ancestry has in a great measure passed away :
and the submerging wave of democracy is day by day obliterating the old
traditions that were once held so dear, and in manv instances there is not
sufficient earnestness to enable one to complete a Family Mosaic. Of the
great array of time-honored names which first appeared on the Battle Abbey
Roll, it is believed that very few are now borne by representatives in the
male line. Some descendants survive under the names of their manors,
for which, according to the early medieval practice still prevalent in
Scotland and England, they exchange their own. More still are probably
lost to sight in poverty and obscurity and have broken all the links which
connected them with their former degree. The class included in this
latter category, though unknown and almost unsuspected, is a very consid-
erable one. Especially is this true of the younger branches of the parent
stock.
An extract from England and the English on this subject, offers the
following testimony : "William tlie Conqueror divided England among the
commanders of his army, and conferred about twenty earldoms ; not one of
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these exist todav. Xor do anv of the honors conferred bv WiUiam Rufus,
1087-1100; HehVv I., 1100-1135: Stephen. 1135-1154: Henrv II.. 1154-1189;
Richard I., 1189-1199: or John. 1199-1216. All the dukedoms created from
the institution of Edward III.. 1327-1377. down to the commencement of the
reign of Charles II., 1649, except Norfolk. Somerset and Cornwall (the title
held by the Prince of Wales), have perished. Winchester and Worcester, the
latter merged in the dukedom of Beaufort, are the only marquisates older
than George III., 1760-1820. Of all the earldoms conferred by the Xormans.
Plantagenets, and Tudors, only eleven remain, and six of these are merged
in higher honors.'*
At times, the old knights of the Pomeroy race made some splendid
errors in the strife for fame and fortune. However, those mistakes con-
sisted chiefly in their determination to hold with the strong hand the
honors they had won on the field of battle, and to improve the condition
of their retainers. It was for these reasons that they were so frequently
found in arms against constituted authority : or in rebellion against un-
desirable political or religious conditions. If there were no cause for per-
sonal dissatisfaction they were to be found fighting by the side of their
King when he was at war with a foreign enemy.
It seems to the writer, however, that the best characteristics the
American people have developed arc inherited from those noble men and
women who gave up all of their Old World comforts, their life of com-
parative ease and safety, for convictions of right and liberty of conscience,
with a courage which the civilization and privileges we enjoy today prevent
any of us from equalling. It is, however, our privilege, and it is considered
our duty, now that we have attained to the best conditions that the most
sanguine of those early pioneers in America even conjecturerl. in go back to
the dusty records of the Feudal Age, and bring forward our ancestors.
Individuals of the Pomerov Familv have been at work to that end for
twenty years and more in a desultory way.
Eltweed (Ethelweed) (Eltwood) Pomeroy. the progenitor of the raoc
in America bearing that name,
Stands on the far frontier of the Border land,
Where we can note the merge when light and shadoTV meet
And death comes sivinging by zvith rapid feet,
the conjunction between the undesirable conditions in the Old World and
the splendid achievements in the Xew. While the interest in the Pomeroy
Family Tree is not limited to its being rooted in aristocratic soil, that
interest is also quite profound and has its right to be considered. As hered-
itary surnames were not in universal use until the close of the eleventh
century, it is proper and perhaps essential in the interest of genealogical
accuracy that we should furnish testimony to sustain the claim that we are
entitled to the name "Pomeroy" and its derivation. Bardsley, in "English
Surnames," asserts that the Normans first established surnames in England,
and that before the close of the eleventh centurv "Fathers had no definite
soubriquet to hand down to their children with other property. In fact
the name of Ralph Pomeraie's father was simply "Roger,*" the designation
being "of La Manche;" and his brother was known as "William Capra,"
ir (§r\Q\xial IttvrBtigatiitttB
who also received from the hands of William the Conqueror 22,000 acres
of Saxon lands.
Radulphus (Ralph) de la Pomeraie of St. Sauvieur de la Pommeraie,
in the department of La Manche, Normandy, was evidently one of the first
to be dignified with a surname, and as it is a place name it may be con-
jectured that he was a man of some note in the eleventh century. He, in
turn, conferred it upon his stronghold, Beri Pomeraie, (now spelled Berry
Pomeroy), which is evidence that notwithstanding the difference in the
spelling the name is identical. Perhaps quotations from other authorities
on the method of spelling the name may be of interest :
"The Norman People" says : Pomerais were Castillians of La Pomerai,
as do Dugdale, Banks and Hovedon. The Frazier Magazines spell it
Pomerai. In Victoria History, Exon Domesday Book, and Leland's Itin-
erary, Camden Society, it is given Pomerei. Somerset Domesday and
Prince's "Worthies of Devon" spell the name Pommeraye. The Duchess
of Cleveland in her "Battle Abbey Roll," makes the name Pomerie. Burke's
Landed Gentry says the name was variously spelled, "Pomerae," "Pomerei,"
"Pomeraye," "Pommeraie," and "Pomeroy," until 1540, when the latter
rendition was universally adopted.
Palgrave's Normandy and England says the "Cotentin family of
Pommeraye."
Lamer's Dictionary of Family Names gives it "Pommeraye" also.
The Penny Cyclopedia and Bardsley's Surnames, "Pomeroy," as do
the Devonshire and Cornwall Domesday Surveys. Beauties of England and
Wales and Fairbaim's Book of Family Crests say "Pomeroy," and Froude's
England, Notes and Queries (all series), John Tims' Abbeys, Castles, etc.,
all spell "Pomeroy."
And I may add that in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the
Revolutionary War," published by the Secretary of that Commonwealth,
which records the name more than two hundred times, it is spelled in many
different ways, beginning with "Pamroy," running through the vowels
variously placed, and closing with **Pumroy,'' the editor in a note, how-
ever, identifying all as "Pomeroy;" and may "Virtue and Courage be the
Companions" of all who bear it.
It will be noted that the descendants of Sir Ralph de Pomeroy who
were bom in England and presented in this genealogical study, are not
confined to the line of. the oldest son of each family, but all are carried
forward who have been of record from Joscelinus de Pomeroy (1100) to
1700 and more without confusion, as we have collected them by personal
research, and by the voluntary assistance of Mrs. Deborah Pomeroy Darling.
Cotentin, the native home of the Pomeroy family, formed the most
important part of the department of La Manche. Its capital was Coutances.
It was settled by the Normans, and annexed to Normandy in the reign of
the second Duke of the Normans, William Longsword, about 930. It
is said that a fragment of the Pomeraie Castle still remains at Cinglais,
near Palais.
With these few words by way of qualification, we will accompany
Sir Radulphus (Raoule) de la Pommeraie into England, leaving behind
ftHtorg of tlyg ppttigrng FamUg IB
an engraved testimony that he was of Normandy, and a Companion of
William, Duke of the Normans :
There is now a tablet on the western wall of the nave of the Church
at Dives, above the entrance, which contains a list of the followers of
William the Conqueror, and in this tablet is cut the name :
••
fiaottU l» Ha 9xntmtFrair
••
It was on the 17th day of August, 1862, that this list was placed in
the church at Dives. It was inaugurated by the Societe Francaise d'
Archeologies. Numerous delegates of learned societies of the cities and
towns of Normandy, and of other provinces, which furnished the supporters
of the Conqueror, attended the ceremonies. The column to commemorate
the embarkation was erected in 1861 by M. de Caumont at his own expense.
The inscription to the list of names is :
"Les Compagnous de Guillaume a la Conquete de TAngleterre, eu 1066;
par M. Leopold Delisle, Membre de Tlnstitute."
"The modest column which is placed here will tell to our countrymen,
to travelers and to seamen, that at the foot of this slope, at the mouth of
the Dives, Duke William assembled the fleet which transported his powerful
army to the coast of England, after having tarried some time at St. Vallery.
It will recall to mind that this army encamped during a month upon this
shore before its embarkation. Dives was, in the eleventh century, one of
the chief ports of the Duchy. It was the natural port of this vast plain
which separates us from Falaise, the cradle of the Conqueror. It was the
port of I'Hiemois, of Seez, and of the Comte of Alencon. From the plains
of Falaise and THiemois, the Duke may have shown his captains the
eminence upon which this monument stands, for it is visible for fifteen
leagues in every direction. He may have said to them:
" 'Je vous denne rendesvous snr cette colline an pied de laquelle vous
trouveres ma flotte/ "*
In the Battle Abbey Roll appears also the name of Hugue Pomeraie,
who was Ralph's brother, but as the name does not again appear in English
history, or in the Domesday books, we must assume that Hugue was either
slain in the battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066, or that he had changed
his name after he had come into possession of large estates, as was and
still is the custom of English land-holders. The writer is more inclined
to the theory that Hugue Pomeraie made a change in his name, as we find
in the Domesday books, and the Victoria Histories, a companion of the
Conqueror called William Capra, who is credited by many authorities as
being a brother of Sir Ralph de Pomeraie, and to whom William gave
forty-six manors or honors, with an area of 22,000 acres. As we have
never seen the name of William Capra quoted in any of the so-called Battle
Abbey Rolls, the contention is that he was the Hugue Pomeraie who at-
tended the Duke William into England.
After his splendid conquest, William, Duke of the Normans, divided
such parts of the territory of England as did not belong to himself by
*I will meet you on this hill, at the foot of which you will find my fleet.
10 (Original Mmtti^utiatm
reservation, or to the church by gift, into seven hundred baronies, or great
fiefs, which he bestowed on his companions and particular friends, and
those especially who had signalized themselves in his service, but mainly
on those who had participated with him in the battle of Hastings or Senlac.
These baronies were then subdivided into 60,215 knight's fees. Several
generations elapsed after the Conquest before any one family of Saxon
derivation attained any considerable honors equivalent to the rank of Baron
of the Realm.
Legal proof of a lineage for 700 years is often necessary to establish
a claim to a barony or earldom by tenure. In such event the Domesday
Books are the last court of appeal. The descent of property is more
valuable. The proof of ancient demesne still rests with the Domesday
Survey. The Victoria History states that although the legal utility of the
Domesday record is small the antiquarian as well as the family or national
historian, "will find great assistance and gratification in consulting the
record, containing as it does, the name and title of every person of im-
portance eight centuries back, tlje situation, nature and extent of all their
estates, and in some instances, the names of their fathers, wives, and
children. Almost every page of modern peerage-books may be referred to
as an evidence of the utility and importance of this first census of England."
The writer has discovered to his great satisfaction that the above
statement is literally true, and the connection of the American Pomeroys
with the old English stock is no longer a problem; on the contrary, it is
a mystery why the conjunction was not discovered years ago.
The Victoria Histories of the Counties of England include the hold-
ings, by name, of the manors or baronies acquired by the companions of
William the Conqueror after the division, and from that list I shall present
in a brief extract the name and location of the various properties, together
with the names of the Saxon owners and the tax rate, apportioned to Sir
Radulphus de La Pomeraie and his brother, William Capra, which may
be assumed as a fair equivalent for their prowess in battle and the earnest
consideration of the Conqueror as to their importance in the subjugated
country.
In order that the reader may more fully comprehend the Norman and
Saxon term used in the exhibit which will follow, a brief explanation will
be found of interest: In the translation of the frequent phrase, "On the
day on which King Edward (The Confessor) was alive and dead," it is
expressed by the letters, "T. R. E." (tempore Regis Edwardi), that being
the formula used throughout the "Exchequer Domesday," with which this
extract has been collated.
It should be remembered that the date of the Domesday Survey is
1086; that the "hide" was the unit of assessment on which the dane-geld
was paid; that the "virgate" was a quarter of a hide, and a "ferling"
a quarter of a virgate. A "ploughland" consisted of as much land as
eight oxen could cultivate; in Devonshire it consisted of four ferlings of
land, and a ferling of land is by later authorities universally identified
with sixteen acres.
||iaton| of tiff Potttprog J^amilQ 20
The Domesday manor consists of demesne and villagers' lands. Demesne
is the lord's home- farm; villagers' land is that occupied by his dependents
on condition of cultivating the lord's home-farm for him.
As regards identification, it should be noted that the modern manor
or parish is not co-extensive with its Domesday equivalent. The latter
in many cases included several subsequent sub-infendations, and was, there-
fore, considerably greater than the later manor. In other cases the Domes-
day manor was only a portion of the estate of which it bore the nan.j, and
many of these portions at a later date became known by other names.
ittquiattiottfi l^ixA-Mnrttm
For the intelligence of those who have not had large experience in
early genealogical history in England we will state briefly that the abbrevi-
ations found in the data pertaining to the parish records, inq. p. m., apply to
inquisition post-mortem which are so useful to one engaged in the study
of antecedents. These inquisitions were one of the most distinctive features
of the feudal system in England, and were introduced in the reign of Henry
III., (about 1216). and continuing to be held through a course of about
430 years, were formally abolished on the accession of Charles II. to the
throne, although they practically ceased to be taken after 1649.
"When a person, male or female, died seized of lands in capite, that
is holding them from the crown, a writ was issued to the escheator of the
county directing that an inquisition should be held in order to ascertain
of what lands he died seized, of whom and bv what services the same
were held, when he died, and who was his next heir." If the heir hap-
pened to be a minor the lands descending to him were held in ward by
the crown till he came of age. The wardship was generally a very lucra-
tive business, because the rents and profits of the estate went to the person
having charge of the heir till his coming of age. so that wardships were
frequently bought from the crown for large sums of money. On the
heir attaining his majority he had to sue out his "ousterlemain :" in other
words, he had to obtain deliverv' from the crown of the lands for which
he was in ward, after first proving to the Court's satisfaction that he was
of age. As may be expected, payments of a very exacting nature were
extorted on all these occasions of death, proof of age and delivery of
lands. It will be seen, therefore, that inquisitiones post-mortem are very
useful to genealogists of the present day, because in them are recorded the
most minute particulars of the deceased's landed property, names of manors
long since passed out of existence, field names, names of tenants, etc., etc.,
are often given, likewise many interesting details as to the services by
which the property was held. The date of the deceased's death, the heir's
name, relationship, and age at the time of his predecessor's death are all
stated on the oath of twelve men appointed as a jury.
Proceeding now to a few particulars respecting the ''Calendar of
Inquisitiones Post-Mortem" for the counties of Cornwall and Devon, it
should be remarked that in 1806 it was ordered bv Parliament that a Cal-
endar be printed of the inquisitiones then kept in the Tower of London,
but since tliat date deposited in the Public Record Office. These records
(^rigitial itnvBtigationB
cover the period between the reigns of Henry III. and Richard III., and
may now be consulted in most of the public libraries of the kingdom.
Jirat yrngniitorjB of % PotttFrog JTamilg
In every Human Life a moment comes in
which all that has been evolved from the
Generations culminates.
The history of the Pomeroy race is broad in reference to the compass,
the contents. A living stream of fact, event, and episode lies behind it in
detail, while each day, each hour, the stream of time is adding new and
large events and visions to the cumulated actors of many centuries. History
is the delineation from the past and present of both the active and passive
forces which have prevailed through the intelligence of human nature and
human action. History informs us of the results of the human passion and
thought, which should be comprehended in their chronological consequences.
It concerns us to know the steps by which the Pomeroy race have approached
the present century, and the channels through which they have arrived.
Our history, although not specific in detail, begins with the succession
of the great Gothic tribe which formerly had their dwelling about the Black
Sea and the Sea of Azov, to which this distinct tribe seems to have come from
yet more eastern regions, and after erratic wanderings up to and along
the northern coasts of the Baltic, one branch finally spread itself over the
greater part of Norway, Sweden and the Danish Islands, and had nation-
alized themselves as Scandinavians. They had learned their might and
determined to have by the strong and ruthless hand of war all they could
acquire in Russia and Italy, and in Germany, France and England, and
in any other country on the shores of which their swift sailing barques
could land them. Roger is assumed to be a descendant of that tribe which
landed in Norway, and which after they had become possessed of Nor-
mandy, were known as Northmen. It was in the Cotentin Peninsula,
province of La Manche, that he married and passed his life.
a. ROGER, (no surname), with his son, William Capra, was a large
benefactor to the Pomeroy Abbey of Saint Mary Du \'al, in Nor-
mandy.— (Calendar of Documents. France, p. 536.)
Children:
.01 Radulphus de La Pommeraie. +
b. HuGUE Pommeraie: Companion of William the Conqueror at the
battle of Hastings. He was either slain in the battle of Hastings
or changed his name.
c. William Capra : Companion of William the Conqueror at the battle
of Hastings. He was also called William Chievre, and is No. 19
in the Exchequer Book.
d. Beatrice (Beatrix) Abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael's
Mount, Cornwall. She held from her brother, William Capra,
Yardelston and West Budleigh, in Tiverton, where she had seven
IfiBtorg of ti^ Pottvrogi J^amily 21
villeins, six bordars, three serfs, ten beasts, twenty sheep, eighteen
goats, forty acres of woodland, fifteen acres of meadow, and two
hundred acres of pasture. She also held Bradford of her brother, and
added to it Toredona, and she probably lived at the latter place.
Beatrice also held a manor at Xether Stowey of Ralf de Pomerei
and is entered in the Exchequer Book as Ralf's sister.
This small tablet of a native Norman family is presented to the
Pomeroy race in America merely for the purpose of imparting the fact
that through the admirable system of keeping records in England a family of
some importance and renown may be traced for about one thousand years
without the loss of anv member who has been of record in that countrv.
It is not the intention of the Historian to number anv member of this
family in the American Pomeroy Mosaic except our direct ancestor with
the Pomeroy name. Although Roger is introduced to you as father of Sir
Ralf de La Pommeraie, there is everv evidence of assurance that the latter
was the first to bear our ancient and distinctive name.
I
{
"There is regard for ancestry which nour-
ishes only a weak pride; but there is also a
moral and philosophical respect for our an-
cestry which elevates the character and im-
proves the heart. Next to the sense of reli-
gious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know
what should bear with stronger obligation on
a liberal and enlightened mind than a con-
sciousness of alliance with excellence which
lias departeds—Daniel Webster.
.01 RADULPHUS de La POMMERAIE, b. at St. Sauveur de La
Pommeraie. in the Province of La Manche, Normandy, circa, 1030,
son of Roger, (no surname) ; benefactor to the Hospital of
St. John the Baptist, at Falaise, Normandy; companion of William
the Conqueror in the subjugation of England; in the battle of
Hastings A. D. 14 October, 1066 , his rank in the army of the Duke
of the Normans being equivalent to that of Chief-of-Staff as it is
designated in the present day. He received for his assistance in
that fateful battle fifty-eight Lordships in County Devon, three in
Somerset, and two in Cornwall, besides sixteen entered upon. He
was one of the first to acquire a family or surname, and he may
therefore be considered as a prominent man in his native province.
Lower, in his "Dictionary of Family Names of the United King-
dom," says: ''This parish (De La Pommeraie) gave name to a
great family, mentioned in Domesday Book and by Brompton, and
the name was in turn conferred upon Berry Pomeroy, County
Devon, England.'* The locality which Sir Radulphus de La
Pommeraie selected for the construction of the celebrated strong-
hold which still bears his name, is not far from the River Dart.
The Castle stands upon a rocky eminence and cannot be success-
fully attacked except in its front, because of the precipitous nature
of other approaches. This was the chief seat of the Pommeraie
family for five hundred years. During the first census of England,
1087, Sir Ralph de La Pommerai was chosen, with one other, a com-
lltBtoni of tlyg pptttfrog yamilg 24
missioner to convey to the King's Treasury at Winchester the tax
collected in Devon under the '*Domesday Survey."
Married. (Our authorities do not give the name of his wife.)
2d gen. Children:
.02 JoscELiNUS DE PoMERiA, son and heir; b. in Normandy. +
.03 William de Pomerai, b. in England. +
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The complete title page of the document from which the photographs
presented here were taken of Sir Radulphus de La Pomeroy's holdings at
the time the first survey and census of England were made properly finds
a place in this History. This document is an exact fac-simile of the original
Domesday Book and was secured by means of photo-zincography by Col.
Sir H. James, Re. Frs. at the ordnance survey office, Southampton, by Her
Majesty's command. The photo-zincograph is an adaptation from the chromo-
carbon process so that a photograph can be at once transferred to plates
of zinc or stone for printing as by the ordinary methods. By this method
of photography there is no opportunity for any one so inclined to change
in any respect the integrity of the original document. In fact the original
document is not even handled or touched by the copyist, as each leaf of
the book is placed in succession before the camera by the officer from the
Public Record Office, London, in whose charge it constantly remains, and
sometimes after an exposure of only twenty seconds, the copy is taken.
In the copy of this Famous Domesday Book now in the possession of
your Historian a red line is run through the names of places, and some-
times through the names of persons, as if to erase or mark them out. These
lines will appear in the half-tone or etching used in this History. This
is peculiar to the Domesday Book, and is equivalent to the modern method
of underlining a word or passage to which it is desired to direct particular
attention. In the title page the old letters have also been copied from the
Domesday Book itself. My copy of Devenescire Domesday Book contains
a photograph of the great book in its binding and of the chest in which it
has been preserved for 825 years.
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In the Domesday Survey Devonshire is one of the five western shires
and is epitomized, not only in the Exchequer Book, but also in another
volume known as the "Exeter Book/* The latter contains, besides a fuller
abstract of the returns made by the Hundred Juries, also a copy of the
returns made by the commissioners appointed to collect the land tax in 1084.
Neither of these books, in describing the Devonshire estates, mentions the
hundreds to which they belong. It is for this reason that the editors of the
"Victoria History" resolved to make the text of the Exeter Book the
groundwork for their translation in the case of Devon, only supplement-
ing it by the Exchequer where the pages have been lost.
In "Victoria History/* we find that the Honours of Berry Pomeroy
and those of Branevs (Bradninch). held in 1086 bv the two brothers.
Ralf dc Pomeray and William Capra. contained a large slice of the county
(Devon), comprising 106 manors, assessed at seventy-five hides, with a
cultivated area of over 45,000 acres.
"Ralf's Honour, sometimes called the honour of Bradworthy, because
Bradworthv was the head of its North Devon section, as Berrv Pomerov
was of its South Devon section, included sixtv manors. In 1166 and 1212
the honour consisted of thirty-two fees, and in 1234 of twenty-one fees.
"From Ralf de Pomeroy the honour descended to his son Joscelinus
(Joslin), who in 1125 gave the manor of Canonteign and the tithe of
Berry and Upottery to the Pomeroy Abbey of St. Mary du Val, and it
then came to his grandson Henry, who married Rohesia, sister of Reginald,
Earl of Cornwall, natural son of King Henry I., and Sibelle, daughter and
coheir of Sir Robert Corbett, Lord of Alcester, County Warwick."
Beri (Berry), No. 50 in the list or table which follows, part of which
was formerly owned by Alvric the Saxon, paid £12. It paid geld for three
hides. These t\venty-five ploughs can till. Thereof Ralph has one hide
and four ploughs in demesne, and the villeins one hide and seventeen
ploughs. There Ralf has forty-five villeins, seventeen bordars, sixteen
serfs, eight beasts, seventeen swine, five hundred and sixty sheep, one
hundred acres of w^ood (land), ten acres of meadow, and forty acres of
pasture; worth £12. When Ralph received it, worth £16. The names,
Saxon owners, tax and identification by (in) hundreds are here presented.
Translation of the preceding pages from the "Domesday Book"* follows:
*It wag while your historian was visiting the Public Record Office in
London, while taking a peek at the great Domesday Book, that he learned of the
fac-simile from which the preceding pages have been photographed, and he
followed the trail to the office of publication. But, alas, he was told that
there was not a copy left; not one to be had for any consideration; the limited
edition had long since been exhausted. Having been in the publishing busi-
nees, however, he was of the impression that two or three files were held by
a publisher, and that one might be disposed of; and so it proved. As far as
your historian has information, there are now but two copies of the Devon-
shire Domesday Book in the United States, and as the copy we have is an
important addition to the archives of the Pomeroy Family in America, the
Annalist will perhaps be pardoned for making this personal statement.
MortiiiMr BrtM.. " Times* Md ** Wntcra CiiBntiaa " SUam Prialioe Works, TutiMiu
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37 glyg (grgat Cag geiuttrtfl-itt-QII|ief
In order to present some of the more important details connected
with these properties I will quote from Victoria History:
"Among Pomeray's under-tenants the two whose names occur most
frequently are Roger and William, but there were apparently two Rogers,
[one Roger, son of Payn of Putford, the other Roger 'Aculeus,* called
also Roger the Sandy, (flabus). The former was tenant of Julian Putford and
Peamore and was represented in 1166 by Richard son of Payn de Puttiford.
Richard de Puttiford held them in 1241, and Walter Pollard in 1303].
**The latter held Huxham and other manors (Clyst St. George, Cap-
pah, Dunston, Blackslade in Widdicombe-in-the-Moor, Weycroft, Kennedon
and Ranscombe, and Heavitree) in the south and east of the county, which
were dispersed among the families of Geoffrey de Pomeray (he had Clyst
St. George, also Street Ralegh, in Domesday, Torstan's), Henry de Pome-
ray of Buckerel (he had Weycroft, Brockland, and Borcombe; at the two
last named he succeeded the Domesday Geoffrey), Huxham, BoIIey and
Prawle.
•' *William' is the ancestor of William le Peytevin, or William of
Poitou, who held four fees of Pomerav in 1166. , . .and of Robert Pevtevin,
who held the same in 1243.
"Beatrice, who held West Chevithom in Tiverton, and Uplowman,
was Pomeray 's sister; she also held Southleigh, and Bradford Tracy of
William Capra, and is called his sister. — (Exeter Domesday, folio 406,
404b, 341b.)
"Roscelin, was Pomeray 's under-tenant, as Warin was William
Capra*s, but the two appear to have held estates jointly in Waringston,
Raplinghays, and Ivedon, in Hemyock. Tiverton, and Budleigh Hundreds.
(S^r (6nBt Hag Q^ntattta-Ui-CIUfi^f
"The detailed consideration of the great lay tenants-in-chief, whose
possessions formed the baronies or 'honours' which are found in this
county at a later date, and of their sub-tenants, may be found in the Vic-
toria Histories under the title of 'Feudal Baronage.' Suffice it here to
remark that the estates of Hugh, Earl of Chester, passed by his forfeiture
to the Crown. Those of the Count of Mortain, after being resumed
by Henry L, and held by the King or some member of the royal family for
two centuries, were in 1337 settled on the Prince of Wales.
"The estates of Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances, with additions and
exceptions, went to form the Honour of Barnstaple ; those of Baldwin, the
sheriff, the Honour of Okehampton ; those of Judhel of Totnes, the Honours
of Hurberton and Totten; Ralf de Pomeray's the Honour of Berry; those
of William, his brother, better known as William Capra, the Honour of
Braneys or Bradninch. Walter de Dowai's were divided between the
Honours of Bampton and Marshwood. William de Falaise's constituted
the Honour of Dartington; those of Odo, son of Gamelin, together with
his father-in-law, Tetbald, the Honour of Torrington, whilst Goscelin's
and Clavil's and Queen Matilda's went to the Honour of Gloucester. The
rest, with the exception of a few which went to out-county honours, or
were held of the king in chief, constituted the great Honour of Plympton.
(Feudal Aids, 235.)
iliBtorti of tl^ Pmnnrot; JTamUn 3fi
"Changes in the names of places have also been frequent in Devon,
not only to distinguish neighboring estates which originally bore the same
name, but also by custom and use, where no such necessity existed, or
from the places where churches were built.
Inohlattftg ati2i MsauttB
"Excepting churches, which had to show that they were in possession
of the estates claimed by them 'on the day on which King Edward was
alive and dead/ all claimants to property were required to establish their
title either by naming the person who had put them in possession, such as
the sheriff, or appealing to some other person as voucher who had the King's
authority, or else by producing the king's writ. In Exeter Domesday,
folio 346, Walscin calls the king to vouch for his holding Diptford of the
Queen. But, there were two ways by which it was attempted to circum-
vent this requirement; the first was by entering upon and claiming as
appurtenant to some manor of which the claimant was in lawful possession
an estate which in King Edward's time had been held independently.
The oft-recurring phrase used of land that it was held pariter, which is
occasionally equated with pro nianerio or libere^ means no more than that
the land to which it applies was not village or peasants' land subject to
services, but an independent holding or book-land. Whenever by usurpa-
tion an independent bookland had been entered upon and made dependent
upon some other estate, it figures in Domesday as 'an estate entered upon*
{terra occupata). Besides noting the fact in the body of the text, the
Exeter Domesday gives a complete separate list of 'estates entered upon.'
The right to these was no doubt specially reserved for the king to settle,
and was usually a matter of payment.
"The other method, which, as Dr. Round has stated, was resorted to, to
conceal a defective title, was an allegation of exchange. Some exchanges
were no doubt quite genuine transactions, such as the acquisition by the
Crown of Ermington and Blackawton by exchange with Walter de Dowai
for Bampton, or the acquisition by the Count of Mortain of the castle of
Cornwall from the bishop of Exeter, in exchange for Haxton and Benton,
though in this case the exchange may not have been altogether voluntary.
"But when Ruald Adobed is stated to hold West Panson by exchange,
one may suspect that possibly Ralf de Pomeray made the exchange be-
cause his title was not flawless. Ralf de Pomeria entered upon a manor
called Panson, and gave it to Ruald in exchange for 'Brochelande' and
'Radiz.' We may well ask whether all these exchanges were genuine, or
not set up to conceal irregular possessions by force."
"Passing from general remarks to particular points, the first to de-
serve attention is the position of the Hundreds in this shire. With one ex-
ception, these are the same today as they were at the time of the Survey,
but the names of several have been changed owing to the place of meeting
being changed.
39 IBlff (6rtBt Hag QletuititB-itt-QUfief
"It is now generally admitted that whatever the 'hide' may have origi-
nally connoted as being land of one family, yet as ordinarily used in the
pages of our record it denotes simply a unit of assessment. The *hide'
is the unit which paid two shillings toward the normal king's geld; the
virgate is a quarter of that unit; the ferling is a quarter of a quarter or
one-sixteenth of the unit Once only is the acre met with as a measure
of assessment, having the value of one-thirtieth of a virgate. — (Round
Feudal England, 38.)
"There is ample evidence to show that in post-Domesday times, a
ferling of land in Devon contained sixteen acres, or a quarter of a 'plough-
land,' and an early survey of Berry Pomeroy in 1292, when compared
with the Domesday description, shows that it contained the same area at
the Conquest
"The demesne is there stated to have consisted of 'sixteen ferlings
of land of which each one contains sixteen acres, each acre being worth
three pence yearly, and so each ferling is worth four shillings yearly.' "
"The sixteen ferlings of 1292 represent the four plough-lands of 1086,
so that four ferlings of sixteen acres each went to the plough-land. Mr.
Chope, in Trans. Devonshire Association, has quite independently arrived
at the same conclusion that the plough-land was about sixty acres. It
has been too readily assumed that because in some parts of England the
'plough-land,' or land for one plough represents the arable land of a 'hide,'
therefore the plough-land must necessarily always represent one hundred
and twenty acres. For Devon, the facts wherever they can be tested, point
to a different conclusion.
"In the case of Berry Pomeroy already referred to, four plough-
lands of Domesday are represented in 1292 by sixteen by sixteen, or 256
acres, i. e. sixty-four acres to a plough-land.
"The cultivated area of Stockleigh Pomeroy was. again, 350 acres in
1292, while in our record it is described as land for six ploughs, giving
fifty-eight and one-third acres as the extent of a plough-land there.
"Newton Tracey, a manor hemmed in by estates belonging to other
honours, contains 336 acres Other examples might be quoted showing
that whatever the size of the plough-land may have been in other counties,
in Devon it was roughly sixty-four acres, or eighty acres including roads,
hedges, and waste. On this basis the total acreage accounted for in the
Domesday Survey of Devon is, roughly, 743,320 acres, or about half the
present total.
"The present total, however, includes not only a large number of
manors of post-Domesday creation, which were waste, and part of the
forest in 1(^5, but considerable tracts which are still untilled, Dartmoor
Forest, and other commons, river-beds, marshlands, and the fore-
shore The forest extending over all Devon until King John's time,
the Domesday book-lands being only clearances of limited areas."
f jBtorg of tiff ppttttrog JTamilg ^
QU|r Jlotunsrn of Sraitaittrli
(From Victoria History of the County of Devon.)
"The honour of William Capra (Braneys) consisted of fewer manors
than that of his brother Ralf de Pomeray, forty-six compared to sixty, of
lower assessment, thirty-four and one-half hides, as against forty and one-
half, but its acreage was nearly equal, 22,000 odd acres as compared with
something like 23^00. It included seven manors which had belonged to the
Saxon Alward Torcheson's, six of which had been Winchin's, six which had
been Ailmer's, four which had been Alvric's, three of Brictric's, two each of
Godric's and Algar's, and the remaining four were single estates of
different Saxon owners.
"The earlier history of Bradninch is somewhat obscure. Accordmg
to Risdon it followed the Earldom of Cornwall, and Mr. Whale associates
it with the honour of Plympton. It does not appear as Earl Reginald's
in his return of 1166, but appears there as William Tracy's. Besides
William Capra's estates the honour included Clyst St. George, which was
held of it by Ralf de Pomeray, and Lympstone. And since Lympstone,
which at the date of the Survey was held by Capra under Richard, son of
Gilbert, Count of Eu and Brionne, was granted out in serjeanty by H^^^^'
L, it is evident that the honour must at the time have been in the King's
hand, by escheat or forfeiture. Lympstone appears to have been held by
Sir Ralf de Pomeray as under-tenant, because Reginald de Albemarle, in
1243, held it of Muriel de Bolley, and de Bolley constantly represented
Pomeray wherever he was under-tenant. Henry I. seems to have bestowed
it on William Tracy, with whose daughter and heiress it passed to John
de Sudeley, and to his second son William, who took his mother's name of
Tracy, and was the murderer of Archbishop Thomas of Canterbury. With
this William's daughter Eva, it passed in 1174 to William de Courtney, who
also called himself Tracy. On the death of Eva, Henry, the son of Reginald,
Earl of Cornwall, purchased the honour of Braneys for 1200 marks, and
held it for sixteen fees.
"Maud, daughter of Guy de Brionne and Eva de Tracy, was twice
married, first to Nicholas Martin, son of Nicholas Martin, Lord of Dart-
ington, and secondly, to Geoffrey de Camville, who, in right of Maud, held
the honour in 1285 by the courtesy of England. Their daughter, Amicia
de Camville, married Henry de Pomeraie, son of Henry de Pomeraie and
Johanna de Valletorta, and being a minor Geoffrey de Camville became
guardian of his daughter's husband. Geoffrey de Camville died 1308, and
was succeeded in this honour by William Martin, son and heir of Maud by her
first marriage. On the death of William Martin in 1323, and of his son
Nicholas two years later, the honour came to his sister Joan, wife of James,
Lord Audley, in whose family it continued until the fifteenth year of
Richard II. On the death of Nicholas, Lord Audley, in 1392, it reverted
to the Crown.
"While William Capra held several honours of the barony of Hurberton
and Totten, by far the largest under-tenant of Judhel was Ralf de Pomeray,
but nowhere did the Pomeray family continue to be under-tenants of Totnes.
In one group, consisting of seven fees, Richard, son of Stephen, had taken
their place in 1286, and in another group of seven fees, Jacob or Avice
de Bolley."
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Qelfrldua Pomerle for Eo niHrki. The County Doraet boundary now Includea
Ford Abbey near Thornecombe. Joacelln de Pomeral beatowed upon the Abbey
bla village of Tale In Peahembury.
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HaniUi lExO^nh Spirn bg ViUiarn (datini— ((Etftebr?)
1. Escstaple . . Enstaple . . 1 thane in par . . 5s . . Enstaple in Bradworthy
in Blacktorringfton.
He and his brother added it to Braordina (Bradworthy).
2. Potaforda. .Putford. .1 thane in par.. 3s 9d..In West Putford in
Blacktorington.
To which has been added one-half virgate of land. (Anschetil holds
it of William Capra.)
3. Lintona. .Linton. . 1 thane in par. . £3, .Ilkerton in Lynton in Shirwell.
To it has been added Incrintona (Ilkerton).
4. Lina. .Lyn. . 1 thane in par. . 10s. .Badgeworthy in Brendon.
Added Bicheordin (Badgeworthy). (Fulco holds it of William.)
5. Crescama. .Owlacombe. Elmer. .30d. Woodscombe in Cruys Morchard
in Witheidge.
Added Madescomba (Woodscombe). (Hammond holds it of William.)
6. Morcet. .Morchard. .Aimer. .i6. . .Cruys Morchard in Witheridge.
This Alward, son of Tochi, took away from Almar by force (per in-
per vim) since King William has held England.
7. Bradforda. .Bradford. .Alvric Colon. .40d Down in Witheridge.
Added Torredona (Down). (Beatrix, William's sister holds it of him.
8. Otrea. .Otterland. .30d a year.. The land added to Awlescombe in
Hemyock.
9. Mamberia. .Membury. .30d a year.. East Membury in Axminster.
10. Two houses in Exeter. . 16d.
11. Leia. .Leigh. .With which goes one-half virgate of land which has
been so kept from notice that the King has not had his geld. East-
leigh in Westleigh in Fremington.
* William Chievre is No. 19 in the Exchequer Book. (Qeldroll, Fol. 65
b A-4.)
fThese ten ploughs can till. Beatrix, his sister, holds it of him. Thereof
Beatrix has one hide and two ploughs in demesne and the villeins one hide
and two ploughs. There Beatrix has seven villeins, six bordars, three serfs,
ten beasts, twenty sheep, eighteen goats, forty acres of woodland, fifteen acres
of meadow, and two hundred acres of pasture. Beatrix also holds Bradford of
her brother, and added to it Toredona. This four ploughs can till. It paid
geld for one virgate, whereas Leigh paid geld for two hides; so she probably
lived at the latter place.
"The Elder Brother is one who made haste
to come into the world: He was well re-
warded for his tidings of male posterity/'
— Charles Lamb.
.02 JOSCELINUS de POMERIA, (Radttlphus), son and heir, joined
his father in granting two garba of tithes of the wood at Meshes,
in Normandy, to the Church and Hospital of St. John at Falaise:
also granted to the Abbey of Val, in St. Omer, in the diocese of
Baieux, in Normandy, of which he was the refounder, the churches
of Beri, Braordin, and Clisson, with other hereditaments in Devon;
also a ^'bordaguine" or small fee and the tithe of a mill in La Pomerai,
and numerous churches and other property, A. D., 1125; was living
1135.
Married Emma, dau. of who consented to her husband's
grants to the Abbey of St. Mary of Val, 1125.
3d gen. Children:
.04 Henry de la Pomerei, son and heir, m. Rohesia, dan. of King
Henry I. +
.05 Roger de Pomerai. consented to his father's gifts to the Abbey
of Val, 1125.
.06 Philip de Pomerai, consented to his father's gifts to the Abbey of
Val, 1125.
.07 JosELiN DE Pomerai, consented to his father's gifts to the Abbev of
Val. 1125.
.08 Radulphus de Pomerai, consented to his father's gifts to the Abbey
of Val, 1125.
.03 WILLIAM de POMERAI, (Radulphus), 3 Henry I., 1102, gave
to the Monks of Gloucester the manor of Berry, in exchange for
which Joscelinus, his brother, gave them Soldenam in Devon, in the
time of Serlo the Abbott, who died 1104. He also gave one-quarter
of a knight's fee at St. Omar in Xormandy to the Abbey of Val.
Married ; our authorities do not give the name of his
wife.
45 if nrrttftatitB of fialfiif he PottirrH
Sd gen. Child:
.09 Ethelweed Pomerai, (which name suggests an alliance with some
Saxon house), consented to the gifts of his father to the Abbey of
St. Mary du Val at St. Omer in Normandy. He founded, as is
asserted by Dugdale, the historian, the Benedictine Abbey of Buck-
fast, in the time of Henry I., and his arms are still to be seen there.
The Annalist has not been successful in tracing his descendants.
The Rev. M. Loundes, Buckfastleigh Vicarage, writes: **Buckfast
Abbey in this parish, was founded by Ethelwerd Pomeri ; that name
often occurs in the registers before 1650."
The Abby of Buckfast in Devon, lies about six miles north from Totnes.
Mr. Prince, in Worthies of Devon, says: **Buckfast-Abby was founded
before the Conquest, by Duke Alfred, for White Monks, of the Cistertian
Order, and dedicated to the honour of the blessed Virgin.
"A very spacious and magnificent abby it undoubtedly was, as the
ruines thereof declare, and very well endowed, being found at the disso-
lution of those houses, of the yearly value of £466 lis 2d ob. q. I shall
therefore endeavor to accommodate this matter to the greatest probability
of truth, thus: When the unruly Danes made an incursion into Devon,
greatly desolated this county, and in particular burnt the Abby of Travi-
stock ; very probable it is that this abby also felt the miserable effects of their
rage and fury, and was reduced thereby to ruines. In this condition it
lay until some time after the Conquest, and then this gentleman, Ethelward de
Pomerai, might re-edify it and give it greater beauty than it had before;
for which reason he obtained and deserved the compellation of its founder.
That one of this name and family was either the founder of, or a consid-
erable benefactor to, this convent, plainly appears from the Pomerai's arms,
not long since plainly to be seen in several places of the building."
.04 HENRY DE LA POMEREI, (Joscelintis, Radulphus) , son and heir, as-
sented to his father's gift to the Abbey of Val, 1125; paid the dane-
gelt in Devon, 33 Henry I.: witness to a deed in Normandy, 1135;
was charged again for Danegelt 2 Henry H. ; paid £7 12s 6d for
the scutage (tax) of Wales, 11 Henry H., and died soon after.
Married Rohesia,* sister of Reginald Earl of Cornwall, natural son
of King Henry I. ; their mother was Sibella, dau. and coh. of Sir
Robert Corbett, Lord of Alcester, County Warwick; Sibella became
the wife of Herbert, the King's Chamberlain. Rohesia had a grant
from the Earl of Cornwall as "Rohes de Pomereia sorori mea" of
the manor of Ridwari in Cornwall, and accounted for three marks
"pro foresta" in Devon 22 Henry H. +
*By one of the provisions of this marriage the entire manor of Alverton.
Penzance, passed from the Earls of Ckirnwall to the Pomeroys.
IfiBtiirg of tiff Pomrrog JTamilg 46
4th gen. Children:
.010 Henrv de Pomeria, son and heir. +
.011 JoscELiN DE PoMERAi, second son, nephew of the Earl of Cornwall,
tried for high treason at Winchester on the morrow of the King's
second coronation there, 8 April 1194, and compelled to become
a monk at Ford Abbey. He quitted the life of religion on the death
of Richard I. ; granted all his village of Tale in Peahembury, which
was given him by his brother Henry, to the Abbey of Ford, with
consent of Henry de la Pomerai, his brother's son and heir. Pre-
viously, in 1177, King Henry H. gave him the Kingdom of Limerick,
which he refused.
Josceline, among others, made one grant, bestowing on the Knights-
Hospitallers the church of St. Maderi in the county of Cornwall;
whereupon it afterwards belonged to their preceptory at Trehigh.
"The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy/' written by Order-
icus Vilalis, a monk who was contemporary with Henry I. of England, and
lived in England and Normandy, one of the scholars of his day, is evidently
the source book of a large part of the early history of the Norman Kings of
England, as presented by English writers of history. This old Ecclesiastical
history was, in 1856, translated by Thomas Forester, M. A., and is now
contained in four volumes, of 500 pages each. Referring to this history. Prof.
E. S. Loomis, B. S., A. M., Ph. D., LL. B.. s&ys: "It is a mine of wealth,
as to genealogy, but no more order in its arrangement than one would expect
to find in an ecclesiastical monk. But the foot-notes are very full, good and
useful, and no doubt it is the source of much that we now find in more pre-
tentious works; i. e. Burke, Doyle, etc., as well as Totten of Yale, for in Vol.
IV., page 46, is the genealogy of the English Kings from Shem, son of Noah,
forty-eight generations, to King Henry I., the original MSS. of which may now
be seen in his (Odericus's) Abby of St. Evroult."
Among the extracts Prof. Loomis has made from this Ecclesiastical His-
tory, we will quote: Vol. IV., p. 71. "There are several communes of the
name of Pomeray in Normandy. That in the canton of Thuri-Harcourt, and
diocese of Bayeux, was the cradle of this family. There are several grants
made by this Henry de Pomeroy, in the time of Henry I., noticed in the
Monastic Anglican * * * and was a Baron by Tenure." The above
quotation is a foot-note to the text, which says: "Henry, son of Joscelin de
Pomer'e, at Pont- Anton; Odo, surnamed Borleng, in the fortress of Bernai,
and other brave soldiers in various strong places, defend the country against
the enemy's inroads."
Same Vol., p. 171, the text says: "For on the Saturday, about vespers,
while he (Robert de Conches) and his companions were returning, carrying
with them in great pomp, a large booty and many prisoners, Count Waleran
and Henry de Pommeraie, with 500 men-at-arms issued from the neighboring
woods and ranged themselves In order of battle against the enemy's band."
"This Is the same Henry Pommerie who commanded the garrison of
Pont-Anton, and engaged with the Count de Meulan at Rouge-Moutier, in
J124." — "The Woods of Vandreul."
"Alexander, surnamed The Severe, succeeded Edgar. He married Sybille,
natural daughter of Henry I., by Sybilla Corbet. The text shows that Alex-
ander the Severe was Alexander, King of Scotland; that the King of Scotland
and Henry de Pomeraie were brothers-in-law, through the marriage of the
latter with Rohesia, full sister of Sibelle, and Reginald, Earl of Cornwall,
was their brother."
4r J^tBtttduaxtB of fialfiif he Ifisnatvei
Sibella Corbett, the mother of these children, was daughter of Sir Robert
Corbet, Lord of Alcester, County Warwick, son of Corbutus, a chief man in
Shropshire, and held much land, which descended to his sons, Roger and
Robert. When King Henry's opportunity arrived to take over the crown of
England, an event which was not considered probable as he had older brothers,
he set adide Sibella and espoused Matilda of Flanders for state reasons, a
parallel case of statesmanship to that of Cnut. Sibella was afterward given
in marriage to the King's Chamberlain.
Prof. Loomis continues with his review: "Had such writers as Burke,
Doyle and others become more familiar with this Ec ^lesiastical History they
would not have been able to confuse the great families of William de Redvers
de Vernon and Baldwin de Meules de Brlonne to such an extent. The Oiffords,
Montgomeries and other families allied by marriage to the Pomeraies are well
covered. Also, Wlilliam Fitz-Osbern, Earl of Hereford, companion of William
the Conqueror, is named as a son of Osbern de Cresson (from name of an
estate in the neighborhood of Bayeaux), who was assassinated by William
of Montgomery. Osbern de Cresson was a son of Hirfast, and brother of
Ounnora." While seemingly this matter is not pertinent to the Pomeroy
family history, it will be found applicable when the reader reaches the study
of the Ancestral Charts on another page. In short, the more one studies
the Pomeroy connections the more prominent they grow, and the conjunction
with the Kings of England through the House of Normandy gives them a
remarkable collateral pedigree, reaching back to the year 1000 through the
name "Pomeroy," thence through the ancestors of King Henry I., to Havar
the Strong of Denmark — two lines of men without a break to about 400 A. D.
The children of King Henry I., (first three by Sibella de Corbett) were:
Sibyl, daughter of Sybllla de Corbet, married King Alexander of Scotland.
Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, married Beatrice, Countess of Cornwall.
Rohesia, married Sir Henry de Pomeroy, Governor of Pont-Anton.
Matilda, daughter of Matilda of Flanders.
William, married daughter of Fulk of Anjou; he died 1120; son of
Matilda of Flanders.
Robert, son of a French woman of high estate.
Henry, son of Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr.
Matilda, Countess of Perche, whose mother was Eadgyth.
Robert, again, whose mother was another Eadgyth.
Daughter (name not given), whose mother was Isabel Meulan.
Juliana, whose mother's name is not given.
Richard, son of Ausfrida, wife of Auskill.
It will be noted that in no record, other than that of his wife Matilda of
Flanders, and Sibella, did King Henry have more than one child by the same
mother, there having been three by Sibella de Corbett, which is good cir-
cumstantial evidence that the ceremony of marriage had strong influence
with him until it became a question of statecraft to form a new alliance.
And when we come to consider that Alexander, the Silent, King of Scotland,
espoused one of Sibella's daughters, the certainty of marriage between King
Henry I., and Sibella de Corbett Is not easily denied, although history is silent
on the subject, as it is on other events.
.010 HENRY DE POMERIA. (Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), son and
heir, held the Castle of La Pomerai and was Prepositura (Provost)
of the Duke of Normandy ; accounted for i80 6s 8d for the fine of
his lands, and paid £29 7s 8d and certified his Knight's fees in
England 12 Henry H. The same year gave land to the Priory of
Saint Nicholas at Exeter by the name of Henry, son of Henry de
la Pomerai, Rohesia, his mother, and Joscelin, his brother, being
witnesses. He seized and fortified the stronghold of Saint Michael's
ifiatorg of ttf? Pomrrog IFamttg 4fi
Mount in Cornwall for King John against Richard I., A. D. 1193.
Married (1) Matilda, daughter of Andre de Vitrei and Agnes de
Cornwall; m. (2) Rohesia,* dau. of Thomas and sister of Doun
Bardolph: she survived her husband, and with her second husband,
John Russell, had a suit with her step-son, Henry de la Pomerai.
respecting her dower, (Cor. Reg. Mich.) 2 John, No. 6; had license
20 May 1227, to marry whomsoever she pleased after the death of
her late husband, John Russell, of Kingston Russell, County Dor-
set; owed fifty marks to the King for marrying the sister of Doun
Bardolph ; s. p. by her.
♦It is refreshing to note the complacency with which Mr. Hutchens,
in his "History of Dorset," pp. 615-616, assumes to correct a contemporary
writer concerning the marriage of Rohesia, daughter of King Henry I. He
says:
"Rohesia, daughter of Thomas Bardolph, married John (not Walter)
Russell, who in the third year of King John owed fifty marks to the King
for marrying the sister of Doun Bardolph. She had been previously the vrife
of Henry de la Pomerai of Berry Pomeroy in Devon, and of La Pomerai
Castle in Normandy, who having taken part with John, Earl of Moretaine,
afterward King John, in his rebellion against King Richard I., and having
on that occasion seized and garrisoned St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, for-
feited his lands and died shortly after the King's return from imprisonment
in Germany. The mother of Rohesia was Adela, daughter and coheir of
Sir Robert Corbet, Lord of Alcester in Warwickshire, by King Henry L, by whom
she was also mother of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall. The latter, who obtained
the Earldom of Moreton from King Stephen, and died 21 Henry IL, by a deed
still preserved among the muniments of Viscount Falmouth at Tregothnan
(Tregony) in Cornwall, gave to his sister, Rohesia de Pomeria, his manor of
Riduri in that county in free marriage."
Note by Mr. Hutchens: — "Mr. Stapleton in his *Rutuli Sacarii Norman-
niae' supposes her (Rohesia) to have been the daughter of Thos. Bardolf
by Rohais, daughter and heir, of Ralf Halselmus, a Baron of Nottingham-
shire, who was also mother of Doun or Dodo Bardolf; but he was not aware
of the existence of Lord Falmouth's charter mentioned in the text. The
discovery of that charter leaves no doubt that Rohesia (Pomerai) Russell
was sister of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, and it is equally certain from the
contemporary evidence of the Pipe Roll that she was sister of Doun Bardolf.
The father of the former was King Henry I., and the father of the latter was
Thos. Bardolf. Rohesia could only, therefore, have been the sister of both
these by being born of the same mother. See Pat. 10 King Henry IV., pt. 2,
m. 9. — 'Dug. Bar. Stapleton Rot. Sac. Norm., vol. 1."
Mr. Hutchens continues: ''By her first husband, Rohesia, had issue
Joscelyn de La Pomerai and upon the conquest of Ireland King Henry II.,
in 1177 gave the kingdom of Limerick to Herbert Fitz-Herbert, William,
his brother, and Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, and to Joscelyn de La Pomerai
their nephew; but they refused to accept it because it had not yet been con-
quered, whereupon it was given to Ralph de Braose. Herbert and William
Fitz-Herbert were sons of Adela Corbet by another husband."
Until the publication of "The Victoria History" there has been great con-
fusion concerning the marriage of Rohesia, daughter of King Henry 1. It
will be seen by the chart herewith that it was the son of Henry de La Pomerai
and Rohesia, daughter of King Henry I., who married as his second wife,
Rohesia, daughter of Thomas and sister of Doun Bardolf, and that she
survived Henry de La Pomeroy and had license to marry John Russell. The
surrey of Devon by Vivian also gives this version. — A. A. P.
49 iparrnbattfa of fialftif ht Ifiamtrtl
5th gen. Child:
.012 Henry de la Pomeilxi, son and heir. +
**It is affirmed that a Sergeant-at-arms of the Kings came to his Castle
of Berry Pomeroy, and there received kind entertainment for certain days
together and at his departure was gratified with a liberal reward. In coun-
terchange thereof, he then, and no sooner, revealed his long concealed
errand and flatly arrested his host, to make his immediate appearance
before the King, to answer a capital crime of conspiracy, which unexpected
and ill-carried message the gentleman took in such despite that with his
dagger he stabbed the messenger to the heart. Then he got himself to
his sister, abiding on the Island of Mt. St. Michael in Cornwall. Here he
bequeathed a large portion of his land to the religious people dwelling there
to pray for the redeeming of his soul; and lastly, that the remainder of
his estate might descend to his heirs, he took refuge in the Benedictine Mon-
astery of St. MichaeKs Mount, which he fortified, and where he defended
himself till the accession of John, when making his peace with that monarch,
he was forgiven and restored to his paternal estates." — Thomas Fuller's
•'Worthies of England."
Prince in Worthies of Devon: "Sir Henry de la Pomeroy had taken
some great disgust at King Richard 1.. probably because that king had
seized his lands for coming into England without his leave, and exacted
of him a fine of 700 marks for the livery of them again." Concerning the
report that he bled himself to death, Mr. Prince says: "That he should
bequeath a large portion of his land for redeeming of his soul, when he
contemplated destroying it, by proving felo de se, seems plainly to be more
like romance than real history, as Sir William Dugdal doubtless refuted it
or he would have taken notice of it in his Baronage of England."
.012 HENRY DE LA POMERAI, (Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus).
son and heir, owed 700 marks for livery of his lands and the King's
l»enevolence. 6 Richard I. Had a suit with his step-mother relating
to her dower in Cornwall. In the 17 year of King John, he joined
the rebellion and his lands were confiscated : next vear he submitted
and his estates were restored. Settled on his son Galfrid the manors
of Clistwick, Braordin, and Ceriton by fine. Pasch. 7 John. Died
6 Henry III., (1222).
Married Alicia, daughter of Robert de Vere and Maud (daughter
of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, and Beatrice).
6th gen. Children:
.013 Henry de Pomeria, son and heir. +
.014 Geoffrey de la Pomerai. -I-
.013 HENRY DE POMERIA, {Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radul-
phus), son and heir, owed 600 marks for livery of his lands, of
which sum Alice de Vautort paid 400 marks 10 John. Confirmed
ygtorg of tlyg Pomgrog yamtlg 5D
the gift of his ancestors of two acres of land in Coscowen and
Trelgher, County Cornwall, to the Monastery of St. MichaeKs Mount.
Was Governor of Rougemont Castle. Exeter. 12-16 John. Sheriff
of Devon 6 Henry III., gave to the Church of St. Nicholas, Exeter,
an annual rent of four pounds of wax out of Buckerell, Counts-
Devon. "Testi Gaufrido de la Pomcrav fratre mco."
Married Johanna, daughter of Reginald and sister of Roger de
\'alletort.
/th gen. Children:
.015 Henry DE LA Pom ERA VE, son and heir. +
.014 GEOFFRY de la POMERAI, {Hcnr\\ Henry, Hcnrw Joscelinus,
Radulphus)y had from his father the manors of Clistwick, Braordin
and Ceriton. Ped. finished 7 John. (Pasch) being then under age.
Party to a fine in the manor of Tale, 21 Henry III., and in Upottery
and Buckerel 31 Henry III. Married, (unknown).
/th gen. Child:
.016 Henry de la Pomerav, living 1237 +
.015 HENRY DE la POMER.WE. (Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry.
Joseclinus, Radulphus), son and heir, in ward of Ralph de Turbe-
ville 3 Nov. 5 Henry III. Did homage for the lands of his father
16 Henry III., and died circa 1235: (he came of age 16 Henry III.:
died 21 Henry III., twenty-five years of age. — A. A. P. )
Married Margeria de \'ernun. dau. of William de \'ernon (fifth
Earl of Devon) and Mabel de Mellent (dau. of Robert de Mellent
and Maud de Cornwall), and as his widow had ward of her son
Henry, 21 Henry III., on payment of 400 marks, and 38 Henry III.,
had custodv of the lands of the heir of her late husband.
m
8th gen. Child:
.017 Hexry de la Pomerav, son and heir. +
.016 HENRY de la POMERAY. {Geoffry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Joseelinus, Radulphus), living 1237. Party to a fine in Upottery
41 Henry III. Married (name not ascertained).
8th gen. Children:
.018 Henry de la Pomeray. 4-
.019 Robert de la Pomerav, as son of Henrv, son of Geoffrv. son of
Henry de la Pomerai and Alice de \'cr, confirmed to the monks of
Ford the manor of Tale, given them by his ancestors. (Hill) 12
Edward II.
.017 HENRY de la POMERAY, (Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Joseelinus, Radxilphus), son and heir, under age 21 Henry III. Con-
51 irarrttbatttB of Vinlplf ht Ijfamtrtl
firmed the grants previously made to the Abbey of Ford. Ordered
to be at Salop with horse and arms against Llewellyn ap Griffith,
44 Henry III. Party to a fine in Stockley Pomeray, 54 Henry HI.
Died before 12 July 9 Edward I.
Married Isolda, dau. of .... and widow of ; had license to
marry whomsoever she pleased; 15 Nov. 10 Edward I.; held one-
third of Berry and Stokeley Pomeray in dower, 22 April 21 Edward
I. ; died circa 6 Edward HI.
pth gen. Child:
.020 Henry de la Pomeray, son and heir. +
.018 HENRY de la POMERAY, (Henry\ Geoffrey, Henry, Henry.
Henry, Joscclinns, Ralph) y party to a fine in Upottery, 41 Henry HI.
Married.
pth gen. Child:
.021 John de la Pomeray, party to a fine in Buckerell, 4 Edward H. ;
mar. Edith, dau. and heir of William Brokkyre. Pedigree finished
39 Edward I.
.020 SIR HEXRY de la POMERAY. (Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry. Joscclimis, Radnlphns). son and heir, born at Tre-
goney, County Cornwall, and bapt. in the church there 2i April
1265; sixteen years old and married at the Feast of Pentecost, 1
June 1281. Inquest 9 Edward I.; (No. 82.) Proved his age as
twentv-two vears on the Fridav after the Feast of Pentecost, 1287.
9 9 m '
Inq. 15 Edward I.: (Xo. 72.) Claimed a moiety of the manor of
Trematon and of fifty-eight Knight's fees in Cornwall and Devon
as coheir of Roger de \'alletort, 33 Edward I. Xo. 51. This Henry
was in ward to Sir Geoffrey de Camvile. his wife's father.
Married. Amicia dau. of Sir Geoffrey de Camvile ; held the manor
of Stokelev Pomerav in dower, 1 Mav 2 Edward III.
1 0th gen. Child:
.022 Henry de la Pomeray, son and heir. -I-
(From Victoria History of County Devon. J
Braneys manor, to which pertain the Lemoges in sixteen and three-
quarter fees, all of Hawise, late the wife of Henry de Turbevill, holds a
third. Henry de Pomeroy confirmed, (1207) to Ford Abbey all the lands
which it held of the fees of Braneys before he received his inheritance.
Henry de la Pomeroy was grandson of Hawise de Valletort, who
married first Richard de Redvers, son of Baldwin, and found to be next
heir in inquest post mortem (27 Edward I.) and claimed the lands in 1315,
but as they had been granted to Richard, King of the Romans and Duke
of Cornwall, and the heirs of his body the suit was unsuccessful.
IfiiBtortf of tl^ Pomerog Jamiltf 52
Richard de Redvers, son of Baldwin, was first Earl of Devon and was
advanced to the honors of Plympton and Tiverton by the Empress Maud,
(Matilda, dau. of Henry I.) shortly before June. 1141, before which time
he had been styled Baldwin de Redvers. Baldwin's son Richard, who
succeeded him in 1155, married Hawise, (her second marriage) daughter
of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, but died in 1162, when his father-in-law
was put in possession probably as guardian of his own grandson Baldwin.
From this Baldwin it passed to his brother Richard and from Richard to
his uncle, William de Vernon, whose daughter Margeria married Henry
de Pomerav.
Harberton also came into the possession of the Valletort family in 1206.
through Roger, and continued with the \'alletorts until 1275, and in 1301
it was first claimed by Henry de Pomeray as next heir, but in 1315 judg-
ment was given against him as above noted and the Harberton moiety was
granted to the holder of the Totton moiety. The other moiety (Totton)
was awarded to William de Braose, then to his son Giles, Bishop of
Hereford, and then to his third son, Reginald de Braose, husband of
Graecia, daughter of William Briwere, the Judge. Reginald died in 1221
and was succeeded by his son William de Braose. who married Eve, sister
and coheir of Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and died in 1229. when
their daughter Eva carried the moiety to William de Canteloup; it then
passed to Millicent, wife of Ivo de la Zouche, who on Ivo's death remarried
Nonhaut. The Zouches, shortly after 1315, acquired the other moiety or
honor of Harberton and held the united honors until John, Lord Zouche,
sustained a forfeiture in 1485. The barony then came to an end, but most
of the estates passed by grant of Henry \TI.. to the family of Edgcombe,
although one part was taken from La Zouche by Henry X'HL, and given
to Sir Thomas Pomeroy, who had attended him in wars in France, and
another moiety eventually came to Sir Thomas by marriage with Jane,
daughter of Sir Peirse Edgcombe of Mount Edgcombe.
Maud, daughter of Eva de Tracy and Guy de Brionne, was thirty-one
\ears of age in 1273, and had recently married Geoffrey de Camville.
Geoffrey de Camville was guardian of Henry de Pomeroy, who had married
his daughter Amicia while a minor before his father's death in 1281. This
Henry de Pomeray died in 1304. He was of the ninth generation, (and
the seventh Henry in succession, his son and grandson being named
Henry also).
In 1210, Oliver de Tracy was succeeded b\- his son Henry de Tracy;
and to Henry succeeded his son Henry who married Maud, daughter
of Reginald de Braose.. and died :n 1273. In right of Maud, Geoffrey de
Camville held the honor of Barnstaple in 1285 by the courtesy of England.
It reverted to the crown in 1392.
Henry de Pomeroy zs, Richard Plantagcnet, (King of Almoin) (King
Richard I.)
(From the Devon and Cornwall Record Society.)
54 Henry III. (28 Oct. 1269 to 27 Oct. 1270.) -^At Exeter, fifteen
days from the Purification of the Blessed Mary, in the fifty-fourth year
of King Henry (16 Feb. 1270).
53 l^tBtttdiwxtB of fialftlf ht Ifiamtrti
''Before Gilbert de Preston, Geoffrey de Liikenore, Walter de Heluin
and John de Oketon, justices, and other liegemen of our lord the king then
and there present. Between Richard, King of Almain (Richard Planta-
genet. son of King John, created Earl of Cornwall 1226, elected Emperor
of the Holy Roman Empire, i. e. Almaigne, 13 Jan. 1256-7), claimant, by
John de W'yke in his place, and Roger \'alle Torta, opponent, as to the
manor and castle of Tremeton (Trematon in St. Stephens-by-Saltash)
and sixty and one-half knights' fees in the counties of Cornwall and Devon,
and the manor of Kalstock; a plea was between thejn. Roger acknowl-
edged the said tenements and fees as well in demesnes as arable lands,
homages, wards, reliefs, escheats, services of free men, villenages, with
the villeins holding them and all their families, woods, meadows, pastures,
ways, paths, waters, ponds, mills, fisheries, and in all other things to the
said manors and castle belonging, together with the advowsons of the
churches of Kalstok and Saint Estevane (Sancti Stephanide, Seint Estevene)
(Saint-Stephen's-by-Saltash) to be the right of the said King as those
which he had by Roger's gift. To have and to hold to the said King and
the heirs of his body begotten of the chief lords of those fees by the ser-
vices which to the said tenements belong forever.
*Tor this the said King at the instance of Roger gave and granted
to Alexander de Oketon 200 acres of wood in the manor of Kalstok, namely,
the whole of that wood which is called the "Wood of Kelly." To have and
to hold to Alexander and his heirs, together with the manor of Innesworke
(Inceworth in Maker) of the said King and his said heirs, or of Roger
and his heirs should the said King have died without heir of his body,
forever. Rendering therefor yearly 6d at Easter for all services, custom
and exaction. And the said King* and his heirs, or Roger* and his heirs
as aforer^aid, shall warrant, acquit and defend to Alexander and his heirs
the said tenements by the said service against all men forever. Moreover,
the said King gave to Roger i300.''
(Endorsed)
"And Henry de la Pomeroyt and Peter Corbett put in their claime.'*
''At Exeter, fifteen davs from the Purification of the Blessed Marv,
in the fifty-fourth year of King Henry (1 Feb. 1270.) Before Gilbert
de Preston, Geoff rev de Leukenore. Walter de Heluin, and John de Oketon.
justices, itinerate and other liegemen of our lord the king then and there
present. Between Alexander de Oxtone and Joant his wife claimants, and
♦Neither had legitimate heirs, although it is said that the King had a
son by the wife of Alexander de Oxtone.
fin 1315 Peter Corbet, grandson of Isabel, sister and coheiress (with
Johanna, wife of Henry de Pomeroy) of Roger de Valletort, joined with Henry
de Pomeroy In petitioning Parliament for the recovery of the manor and
honour of Trematon, alleging that when Roger de Valletort made the deed
of gift in favor of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, he was non compos mentis. In
1327 the suit was renewed. In 1339 a settlement was effected with Henry
de Pomeroy. (See "Cornish Landowners" in the Journal Royal Institution,
Cornwall, vol. x, p. 152).
:|:By her, Richard, King of Almain, became the father of Richard de Corn-
wall and Joanna, wife of Richard Champernowne. — (Polwhele's "History of
Cornwall;" vol. i, Pedigrees of Haweis; Collectanea Cornublensia, pp. 1131-2.)
Roger de Valle Torta, opponent; as to the manor of Innesworke
(Inceworth in Maker) and 200 acres of wood in Kalstock, namely, the
whole of that wood which is called "the Wood of Kellv/' which Alexander
and Joan before held as the dower of Joan by the gift of Ralph de Valle
Torta, first husband of the said Joan, John, brother of the said Roger, whose
heir he is. A plea was between them. Alexander and Joan acknowledged
the tenements to be the right of Roger.
"For this Roger granted to Alexander and Joan the same tenements
with all the appurtenances as well in demesne, etc., to the said tene-
ments belonging. To have and to hold to Alexander and Joan and the
heirs of their bodies of the chief lords of that fee by the services which be-
long to those tenements forever. Should Alexander and Joan die without
heir of their bodies then the said tenements shall wholly remain to the
right heirs of Alexander. To hold to the said heirs of the said chief lords
by the services forever.
( Endorsed )
*'And Henry de la Pomeroy and Peter Corbet put in their claim."
.022 SIR HENRY de la POMERAY, {Hcnr\\ Hcury, Henrys Henry,
Henry^ Henry, Henry, Joscelinus^ Radnlphns). son and heir, aged
fourteen years 27 Sept. 33 Edward I., 1305, claiming as son of
Henry, son of Henry, son of Henry, son of Johanna, eldest of the
two sisters and coheirs of Roger de V'alletort, renewed the suit
commenced bv his father for a moietv of the Castle and lands of
Roger de Valletort, 9 Edward H., 1316. By the name of Henry,
son of Henry de la Pomeray, Knight, and Amicia, dau. of Geoffrey
de Camville. confirmed the grant made by his grandfather Henry,
son of Henry de la Pomeray and Margery de Vernon, in the manor
of Tale. Had license to entail the manors of Stokelev, Bvrve. Har-
berton, etc., on himself and Johanna his wife, for life, with remainder
to his sons Henry, William, Nicholas, John and Thomas, success-
ivelv in tail male 1 Mav 2 Edward H., and entailed them bv fine
3 Edward HI., 1328. Presented to the Church of Whitston, Devon,
in right of Elizabeth, his wife. 16 April 1339. Died 22 Oct. 1367:
inq. p. m. 41 Edward I. No. 5.
Married, (1) Johanna, dau. of John, Lord Mules, (who was
descended from Richard the Fearless and Gunnora) ; m. (2) Eliza-
beth, daughter and coheir of John de Powderham; living in 1359,
iith gen. Children by ist wife:
.023 Sir Henry de la Pomeray, son and heir. -1-
.024 Capt. William de la Pomeray, second son: ped. fin. 3 Edward
HI. He was Captain of Castle Cornet, at St. Peter Port, Isle of
Guernsey.
.025 Nicholas de la Pomeray, third son; ped. fin. 3 Edward III.;
Hilt Aiutrnl Snugrmniit (£astLr
Exeter - Devon
Itaatlt (Contrt - Salr of (Kurrnsrg
Erttrr from tift Sukt uf SrUtaiiy
PuMie Record Office A ncien I Corrtipondence. i'ol. 41. So. 193.
(Translation. Parts Illegible by rubbing and tears in paper.)
On the part of the Duke of Bretagne, Earl of Jlontfort and Richmond.
(Endorsed:) To oar well-beloved William de la Pomeraye, Captain of
Castell Cornet.
According to certain letters, which we send yoii by one of your people, you
will see that the English have taUen certain vessels belonging to Brittany.
There have come before us our well-beloved Rolant Vlire and several others
of our subjects saying that they were lately iraveline as merchants with their
vessels (laden 7) with salt, and tell in with some people, who took them and car-
ried off the said vessels Co the great damage of our said subjects, who desire Bo
often to go across, as the peoiile on your side come here, as indeed there are now
divers persons from your side here in our port and harbours, who have suffered
no hurt. But up to the present our subjects have been deceived and suffered dam-
age npon the oath of the sureties to whom the King of England sent information
In the ports, etc., of his Kingdom, as we have likewise informed ihem in ours.
And whereas we are informed that the said vessels and others belonging to our
said subjects were taken, a craft whose master (named .Mondl) said belonged
to the Mayor of Poole, and that the son of the said mayor was there present,
we pray you that on receipt of these presents, you will send one of your people
to Poole aforesaid or elsewhere on your side at the expense of our said sub-
jects, to see if they can find the said vessels, and that you should put an em-
bargo upon the said goods and merchandise, if you should find the cargoes
still on board the vessels until you can send us information thereof, and an
arrangement can be made. And herein you will do us a great pleasure. And
(we send ?| you in a schedule herein enclosed the names of the said vessels
and of their masters.
Given at our town of N'anles on the 26th day of .\ugust. [temp Edw. III,).
BRUNEAU.
55 irarrndatttB of fialftlf lit Ifisamrtx
Sheriflf of County Devon, 50 Edward III: arms, or a lion rampant
gules within a bordure engrailed sable.
.026 John de la Pomeray, fourth son; ped. fin. 3 Edward III.
.027 TiroMAs de la Pomeray, youngest son. +
Child by 2d wife:
.028 Elizadeth de la Pomeray; m. Oliver Carminow; vide. Carminow
ped., Vivian's Visit of Cornwall.
(Copy of Harley MS. io8o F, 22j,)
"Edwardus* dei gratia Rex Anglipe Dominus Hibernipe et Dux
Aquitanie omnibus ad quos. presentes littere pervenerint salutem. Sciatis
quod, cum Henricus da la Pomeroy miles, consa[n]guineus et unus hered-
ensis Rogeri de Valle Torta Remiserit et omnino pro se et heredibus suis
imperpetuum quietum clamaverit dilecto Filio nosteo Edwardo duci cornubie
et comiti cestrie et peredibus suis totumius et clameum, etc. In cuius rei
testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus Patentes. Teste me ipso
apud Westmonasterium 15 mo. Februarii anno regri nostei undecimo.*'
.023 SIR HEXRY de la POMERAY, (Henry, Henry. Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Josceliu, Radulphus). son and heir,
named as son of Johanna de Mules in deed 42 Edward III. : died
20 Dec. 1373: seized of lands in Devon and Cornwall. Inq. p. m.
48 Edward III. Xo. 51. Married unknown.
T2tli gen. Children:
.029 Sir John de la Pomeray, son and heir: married Johanna, daughter
and coheir of Richard de Merton.
.030 Johanna de la Pomeray. +
.031 Margaret de la Pomeray. +
.027 THOMAS de la POMERAY. (Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry. Henry, Henry, JoseeliJius, Radulphus), youngest
son. Ped. fin. 3 Edward III.: acquired lamls in Sandridge. etc.
Ped. finished 45 Edward III. Pasch.
Married, but our authorities do not give the name of his wife. In
accordance with the entail of his father, by fine, 3 Edward III.,
his son and heir Edward succeeded to the manors of Stokelev,
m
Byrye, Harberton, etc., the heir of his (Thomas's) brother Sir Henry
* Edward, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland and
Duke of Aquitalne. To all, to whom the present letters come, salutation.
Know that, whereas Henry de la Pomeroy Knight, kinsman and sole heir
of Roger de Valle Torta [? Valtort] hath released and entirely acquitted on
behalf of himself and heirs for ever in favour of our beloved son Edward,
Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester and his heirs all right and claim, etc
in testimony whereof we have caused our letters patent to be made witness
• myself at Westminster 15th of February in the year of our reign eleventh.
(King's arms and crest attached.)
ygtorg of tlyg ppntgrog Jamtlg 5B
having died without male issue, and his other elder brothers also
having died without male issue.
1 2th gen. Child:
.032 Edward de la Pomeray, son and heir, succeeded to Berry Pomeroy
on the death of Sir Thomas Pomeray, 1426. +
.029 SIR JOHN DE la POMERAY, (Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry.
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), son
and heir, aged 27 and more 10 Feb. 1374. Settled the manor of
Berry Pomeray on himself and Johanna, his wife, and the heirs of
their body, with remainder to his own right heirs forever. Settled
the manor of Tregoney on his cousin Edward Pomerav and Mar-
garet Bevile, his wife before their marriage by fine, 5 Henry IV.
No. 4. Died s. p. 14 June 1416. Inquest post mortem 4 Henry
V. No. 44.
Married Johanna, daughter and coheir of Richard de Merton,
Widow of John Baunfield, vide Bampfield; ped. ante p. 38; granted
her estate in Bery Pomeray to Thomas de la Pomeray and Johanna
his wife, and John Cole, 16 April 1420. Died 16 June 1420. Inq.
p. m. 8 Henry V. No. S3.
(Transcribed from Harlcin MSS., British MuseuniJ
2. Sciant presentes et futuri, quod ego, VVillelmus Hywish dedi con-
cessi et hoc presenti certa indentata confirmavi Johanni de la Pomeroy
militi maneria mea de Tremetherott, Menely Rathwill et quartam partem
manerii de Trurii, etc. In cuius rei testimonium tarn sigillum predicti
Willelmi Huysch tuam sigillum predicti Johannis cartis indentatis alter-
natim sunt apposita. Hus testibus : Johanne de Bemont, Willelmo Bonvill,
Warino le Archdeacon, Willelmo de Bickberie, Militibus, Jacobo de Chud-
ley, Nicholas de Rickham, Johanne de Ferrers, et alus. Dat. apud Hywish
14 die mensis Maii anno regni regis Edwardi 3 post conquestum quin-
quagesimo."*
.030 JOHANNA de la POMERAY, (Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), first
daughter; died before her brother. Married Sir James Chudieigh
of Ash ton ; vide. ped. ante, page 189.
*Knowallmeii,pre6entandtocome,thatI, William Hywish have given, granted
and by this present indentured deed confirmed to John de la Pomeroy, Knight,
my manors of Tremetherott, Roth will and a fourth part of the manor of
Truru, etc. In testimony whereof the seal of the said William Huysh, as well
as the seal of the said John, have been affixed alternately to the Indentured
deeds. Witnesses: John de Bemont, William Bonville, Warin the Arch-
deacon, William de Bickberie, Knights; Jamee de Chudley, Nicholas de Ricke-
ham, John de Ferrers and others. Givln at Hywish 14th day of the month
May» in the year of the reign of King Edward, third after the conquest, fiftieth.
57 BrarrttbantB of fialftlf ht Pomrm
^Jth gen. Children:
.033 Johanna Chudleigh. daughter and heir, and coheir of her uncle.
Sir John de la Pomeray, aged 40 and more 1416. Died 8 Dec.
1423. Inq. p. m. 7 Henry VI. Xo. 51 ; m. (1) Sir John St. Aubyn:
m. (2) Sir Philip de Drione; m. (3) Sir Thomas Pomeray, Kt. ;
he held Bery and Stokeleigh Pomeray by courtesy of England after
his wife's death; d. 10 March 1426, when t'lev reverted to Edward
m
Pomeray, vide inq. p. m. 7 Henry VI. No. 51. +
14th gen. Child by rst marriage:
.034 John St. Aubyn, son and heir: m. Catherine, dau. and heir of
Sir Robert Challons of Challons Leigh, County Devon. +
Child by 3d viarriagc:
.035 Isabella Pomeray, only child: named in the inquest taken on her
mother's death. Died before her parents.
J5lh gen. Children of John and Catherine St. Attbin. (.034):
.036 Johanna St. Aubyn, coheir of her grandmother, Johanna Pomeray,
m. Otho Bodrigan, and aged seventeen years and more 1428; rem.
William Dennys.
.037 Margaret St. Aubyn, coheir oi her grandmother, Johanna Pom-
eray; m. Reginald Tretherff. and aged thirteen years and more
1428.
.031 MARGARET de la POMERAY, (Henry, Henry. Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radnlphus). second
daughter : died before her brother. Married Adam Cole,
13th gen. Child:
.038 John Cole, coheir of Sir John de la Pomeray, his uncle; aged
forty and more 1416.
.032 SIR EDWARD de la P0MER-\Y, {Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinns, Radulphus), son
and heir; succeeded to Bery l*omeray on the death of Sir Thomas
Pomeray, 1426. Sheiiff of Devon 10 Henry \T. Died 3 May
1446; seized of Bery Pomeray. Stokeley Pomeray, one-half of the
manor of Harberton, oncrthird of the manor of Brixton, by vir-
tue of entail; ped. fin. 3 Edward III. Inquest p. m. 24 Henry
VI. No. 37.
Married Margaret, dau. of John Bevile. Settlement before mar-
riage 5 Henry I\'. ; settlement after marriage, 12 Sept. 13 Henry
VT. ; d. 10 Sept. 1461. Inquest p. m. 1 Edward IV. No. 11.
IftBtory of tht Potttf rog Jamilg 5B
^i'A ^^H. Children:
.039 Henry de la Pomeray, son and heir: m. (1) Alice, dan. of John
Raleigh; m. (2) Anna, dan. of Robert Cammel. +
.040 John Pomeray. +
.039 HEXRY de la POMERAY, (Edtcard, Thomas, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry^ Henry, Henry^ Joscelinus, Radnl-
phus), son and heir; aged thirty and more at his father's death,
and forty and more at his mother's death. Settled Stokelev Pom-
eray on Sinclere Pomeray, his son, and Katharine, his wife, and
their heirs, 27 Sept. 1462;' d. 7 July 1481.
Married ( 1 ) Alice, dau. of John Raleigh of Fardell, County Devon :
m. (2) Anna, dau. of Robert Cammel of Tittleford, County Dorset,
widow of Henry Barrett of Whiteparish, County Wilts: m. before
20 Sept. 1478; d. before her second husband, s. p. by him. She
had a daughter, Johanna Barrett, by her first husband, who married
William Kelloway, of Sherborne. County Dorset, and they had a
son, John Kelloway, who had a daughter, Agnes.
14th gen. Children by 1st zvife:
.041 Sir Seint Clere Pomeroy.* Knight, son and heir, d. v. p. s.
p. 31 May 1471. Inquest p. m. 12 Edward IV. No. 3; m. Kath-
arine, dau of Sir Philip Courtenay, Kt. of Powderham; widow
of Thomas Rogers. She afterward married Sir William Huddes-
field, vide Courtenay ped. ante, ped. 246; d. 12 Jan. 1515, at
Spillingford. Inquest p. m. 7 Henry \'III. Xo. 14. George
Rogers, her son and heir, aged thirty years and more. (The de-
scent noted in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth generations is
recited in the inquest taken on the death of Katherine Huddes-
field, who was widow of Sir Seint Clere Pomerov, 7 Henrv \'III.
No. 14. — Bond.)
.042 Sir Richard Pomeroy, second son, heir to his brother. Sir Seint
Clere. +
.043 John Pomeroy, named in the will of his brother; living 1496.
.044 Agnes Pomeroy, named in the will of her brother; 1496.
.045 Elizabeth Pomeroy. +
.046 Thomas Pomeroy, fourth son. -I-
.040 JOHN POMERAY, (Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), m.
Marv, dau. of
*Our authorities begin to spell the name "Pomeroy" in the fourteenth gen-
eration.
I
•E
59 BtBtttdiwxtB of fialfttf be Pottirrpi
I4tli gen. Child:
.047 Robert Pomeroy. +
.042 SIR RICHARD POMEROY,* {Henry, Edivard, Tlwnias, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus,
Radiilphus), second son, heir to his brother, Sir Seint Clere, and aged
thirty and more at the taking of the inquest on his death ; Sheriff
of Devon 13 Edward I\'. Knighted at the Bath on the coronation
of Queen Elizabeth, wife of Henry VIL ; d. 24 May 1496; will 24
Aug.; pro. 20 October 1496. P. C C. (Home 1.)
Married, Elizabeth, dau. and coheir of Richard Densell of Were,
and widow of Martin Fortesque of Filleigh: vide ped. ante, page
167. Named in the will of her husband and inquest taken on the
death of her son, Thomas: d. 20 March 1507-8.
i5th gen. Children:
.048 Blanche Pomeroy, eldest daughter; named in her father's will;
living 1496.
.049 Elizabeth Pomeroy, second daughter; named in her father's will;
living 1496.
.050 Sir Edward Pomeroy, son and heir. +
.051 Thomas Pomeroy,! second son: named in his father's will: d. s.
p. 12 Aug. 1508. Inquest p. m. 24 Henry VII. No. 65. Will 25
Aug. 1508, pro. 24 Jan. 1508-9. P. C. C. (Bennett 10).
.045 ELIZABETH POMEROY, {Henry, Edzvard, Thomas, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus,
Radnlphns), m. Humphrey Courtney, sixth son of Sir Philip Court-
enay and Elizabeth, dau. of Walter, Lord Hungerford, K. G. ; he
d. 23 April 1496.
•The church of Berry Pomeroy was doubtless constructed by Joscelinus
de Pomeria (second gen.) and rebuilt by Sir Richard. At the front of one
of the tombs in the churchyard were the arms of the Pomeroys, at the western
end of the monument, and at the eastern end a shield, supported by two
angels, displayed Pomeroy arms impaled with those of Sir Richard Denzell, of
Filleigh. It is believed that he was induced to undertake this work through the
influence of his brother. Sir Seint Clere de Pomeroy, (in his will). Sir Seint
Clere was Abbot of Buckfast.
fWILL OP THOMAS POM1SROY, ESQ. Folio 10 Bennett (P. C. C).
In the name of God, amen, I, Thomas Pomerey, Esq., with whole and
stedfast mind make this my laat will and testament and last will the 26th
Aug. in the year of our Lord God 1508 and the year of the reign of our
sovereign Lord King Henry the Vllth 24. As in this my present testament and
last will followeth: First I bequeath my soul to Almigbty God, to our blessed
lady St. Mary and to all the holy saints in heaven. And my body to be
buried in the church of Our Lady in Thame before the alter of the image of
our Lady of Jeseon. Also I bequeath to the mother church of Lincoln 4d.
I^Btorg of tife PottiFrog jlatnilt;
60
^5'/* g^>t' Children:
.052 John Courtenay.
.053 Philip Courtenay.
.054 lo.W COURTEX.W.
.046 THOMAS POMEROY, {Henry, Edzcard, Thomas, Henry. Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, JosccUnus, Radul-
phus)y third son, held lands in Cheriton, Fitzpaine, etc., which were
settled upon him and Agnes, his wife, by her father, 20 Sept. 1478;
d. 29 Dec. 1493. Inquest p. m. 9 Henry VH. Xo. 61.
Married, Agnes, daughter of John Kelloway, of County Dorset.
i^th gen. Children:
.055 Agnes Pomeroy. + .058 Thomasixe Pomeroy.
.056 Anna Pomeroy. + .059 Elizabeth Pomeroy.
.057 Margaret Pomeroy, mar.
.060 Thomas Pomeroy, son and heir; aged twelve years at his father's
death.
.061 Richard Pomeroy, of Rousdon, County Devon, living 1531. +
.047 ROBERT POMEROY, {John. Edivard, Thomas, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radul-
phus), of Ingsdon, Devon, with his wife, settled on themselves, 16
Nov. 1481, the manor of Ingesden, with remainder to their son and
heir, Sinclere Pomeroy, in tail. Died 3 Jan. 1517-8.
Married, Elizabeth, only dau. and heir of John Beaumont,* of
Ingesden; nineteen years of age at her father's death, 29 Oct. 1471.
Died before her husband.
''The Beaumonts held Engesden till the reign of Edward IV., (1461)
when Elizabeth, only daughter, and heiress of Sir John de Beaumont, brought
it to the Pomeroy family, in whom it remained many years.
Also I bequeath my chain of ten score links of gold to our Lady of Jeseon in
the church of Thame where my will is that my body shall lye to be praj*ed for.
Also I bequeath to my Lord the Prince my great bay horse. Also I bequeath
to my fellow Franceys Bewdes my black velvet gowne furred with black
bogye. Also I bequeath to Robert Holden my servant to pray for me, and for
the good service he haith done to me, my bay ambelyng nagg, saddle and
bridle and four marks in money. Also I bequeath to William Bryan my
servant to pray for me and for the good service he hath done to me five marks
in money and my tawny chamlett coat lined with black coten. Also I be-
queath to Ager dwelling in Southwark at the sign of the Cross Key to
pray for me, my chamlet gowne furred with black bogye. Also I bequeath to
Thomas Childe to pray for my soul and for my keeping in my sickness 20s in
money. And all the residue of my goods not remembered I will that they shall be
disposed for the helth of my soul after the discretion of Mr. Franceys Bewdes
and John Flaggen whom I make myne escors to execute and perform this my
present testament and last will. These witness: John Buntyng, Pers Benet,
Robert Holden, William Bryan, Robert Holland, William Lantt and others.
Proved 9th Sept. 1508.
61 BtBtttdimdB of Viaiplf he Pottirm
ijth gen. Children:
.062 SixcLERE PoMEROY, son and heir. +
.063 JoHx PoMEROY, sccond son. +
.050 SIR EDWARD POMEROY, (Richard, Henry, Edward, Thoinas,
Henry, Hcnry^ Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Hcnry^ Jos-
celinus, Radnlphus), of Bury Pomeroy, in County Devon, Kt., son
and heir, of full age at his father's death, and named in his father's
will ; heir to his brother, Thomas Pomeroy, aged thirty and more
at his death in 1508. Died 21 Oct. 1538. Esch. Inquest p. m. 30
and 31 Henry \*III. Xo. 7.
Married, Johanna, daughter of Sir John Sapcot. Kt. ; settlement
before marriage 2 Oct. 4 Henry \'III.; named in the inquest on the
death of her husband. Living 1538.
1 6th gen. Children:
.064 Sir Thom.\s Pomeroy de Bery Pomeroy. +
.065 Hugh Pomeroy, of Tregoney. 4-
.066 William Pomeroy. .067a Tiiomasix Pomeroy.
.067 Edward Pomeroy. .067b Elizabeth Pomeroy.
.055 AGXES POMEROY, (Thomas, Henry, Edzcard, Thomas, Henry,
Henry. Henry, Henr\, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelintis,
Radnlfhns), m. (1) Thomas Tresoyle: m. (2) Thomas X'owell.
i6fh gen. Child by 2d marriage:
.068 PiiiLLii»PA VovvELL, m. Edward Harris of Cornworthy : he m. (2)
Anne, dau. of William Huckmore; she m. (2) Henry Pomeroy,
(.077).
ijth gen. Child of Phillippa and Edzcard Harrys, (,o68):
.069 Thomas Harrys, sergeant-at-law : m. Elizabeth Pomeroy.
Children of Edzcard and Anne Harrys, (.068):
.070 Arthur Harrys, m. (,1) Honor, dau. of John Wikes of Xorthwike:
m. (2) Phelip, dau. of Richard Duke, of Otterton.
.071 SusAX Harrys, m. Henry Fortesque of Cornworthy.
.056 ANNA POMEROY, (Thonias, Henry, Edzi'ard, Thontas, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelintis,
Radulphns), m. Tristram of Hengscot of Exeter.
i6th gen. Children:
.072 Nicholas Hengscott.
.073 John Hengscott of Hengscott, m. Agnes, dau. of William Marwood
of Hengscott.
.074 Agnis Hengscott, m. William Strowbridge of Owtrey St. Mary.
iliatorg of tlft Pomrrog JFamilg 62
i/th gen. Children of John and Agnes Hengscott^ {073):
.075 Thomazin Hengscott.
.076 Elizabethe Hengscott.
.061 RICHARD POMEROY. (Thomas, Henr\\ Edward. Thomas, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinns,
Radiilphus), of Rousdon, County Devon: living 1531; m. Eleanor,
dau. of John Coker of Mapowder, County Dorset.
i6th gen. Children:
.077 Henry Pomeroy, son and heir. +
.078 John Pom^rov, living 1531.
.062 SIXCLERE POMEROY, {Robert, John, Edzcard. Thomas, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joseelinus,
Radulphus), son and heir ; ob. v. p. ; 111. Johanna, dau. of ... . ; living
15 June, 24 Henry VHI.
i6th gen. Child:
.079 John Pomeroy, son and heir. +
.063 JOHN POMEROY, (Robert, John, Edward, Thomas, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinns,
Radidphus) , second son, on whom his father settled a tenement called
"Barnes Place," in Over Ingsden, 27 April 1500; m
i6th gen. Child:
.080 Christopher Pomeroy. +
.064 SIR THOMAS de POMEROY de BERY POMEROY, (Edward,
Richard, Henry, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinns, Radulphus), (Miles) son
and heir, aged thirty-five years and more at the death of his father:
lost the Castle, Park and Manor of Bery Pomeroy, with other lands ;
also King Henry VHI. took a moiety of the Totnes manor from
Baron Zouche and gave it to Sir Thomas, all of which, with his
original estates, as cited above (were appropriated by Sir Edward
Seymour, Lord Protector of England, 1 Dec. 1549; d. Nov. 1, 1566.
Married, Jane, dau. and coheir of Sir Peirs Edgcomb of Mount
Edgcomb; (sic.) ; lost her estate in Totnes to Sir Edward Seymour;
living 1570.
17th gen. Children:
,081 Thom.\s Pomeroy of Bingley, son and heir. +
.082 Arthitr Pomeroy of Antony, County Cornwall, included in the
entail created by his father, 14 March 1550-51; d. s. p.; buried 15
Aug. 1615, at St. Stephens by Saltash, Cornwall. Will 31 March
aU. --//s-^
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frproiid A&ministrattan of Stctfarb pamrrflH
{Prtrogalive Couil of CanUrbury, AdtHinitlralioH Act Book*. IS7S-79.)
v-X
(•Traniiation. )
Henry Pomeroye.
S" Blaise
Inventory
exhibited c
the 4th.
On ihc 5th of July (1575) commission issued to Richard Pome-
roye, natural and lawful son of Henry Pomeroye. late of Totnes
tti the County of Devon, deceased, having (goods &c.) to ad-
minister the goods rights and credits of the same deceased,
sworn well (to administer) &c., with revocation of the letters
of administration of the goods of the said deceased formerly
granted to one Richard Pomeroye. now or late of Totnes afore-
said, in consequence of suppression of the truth & false state-
ment and fraudulently by him obtained in the month of June,
1559, and the annulling thereof as appears by the acts of this
court drawn up on this present day.
63 B»B»ndantB of llalftlf hf Pomrrri
1604: pro. 1 Dec. 1615; admr. **de bonus non" granted 15 July 1617,
to Anne Pilkington. alias Hutton. wife of John Pilkington, and
sister of Elizabeth Stronee, alias Pomerov, alias Atkins, alias Hutton,
deceased, the widow and executrix of testator. P.C.C. (Rudd 115.)
Mar. Elizabeth, dau. of .... Hutton, and widow of .... Atkins,
executrix of her husband's will; remarried John Stronge; mar. lie.
27 March 1616. Exeter.
.083 Jane Pomerov. m. Thomas Plover of Plover Haves: their dau. m.
William Wrayford of Silverton. b. 1550: cxr. of his father's will
1595: d. before 1624; paid subsidy at Silverton 21 James I. Will
pro. 20 June 1651.
.084 Elizabeth Pomeroy; m. 15 Oct. 1562, at Chudlcigh, to Xicholas
Bennett ; vide ped. ante page 72 : named in will of her husband ; bu.
11 Aug. 1605, at Chudleigh: will pro. 16 Aug. 1605. Const. Ct.
Exeter.
.085 Katharine Pomeroy: m. Sir John Moore of Moorhayes. County
Devon, Kt, : vide ped. ante page 573 : dubbed at Westminster, 10
Nov. Edward \'I. : will 26 April 1606. Pro. Archd. Ct. Exeter.
(Proceedings in Chancery. Temp, Elizabeth. G. yi2, ig May 1393-^
"To the right honoraSTe S*" John Puskeringe Knight, Lord Keeper of the
great Scale of England :
**Humbly complayning showeth unto yo^* good Lordship yo^ dayly
Orator Thomas Goodridge of Deri Pomery in the Countie of Devon That
whereas yo^ Orator hath heretofore exhibited unto this honorable Court
a bill of complaynt against one S^ Edward Seam*", Knight, and others in
effect as hereafter followeth viz. To the Right Honorable S^ Christopher
Hatton of the most noble order of the garter. Knight. Lord Chancellor
of England most humbly complayning showeth unto yo^ Lordship yo^*
poore and daylie Orator Thomas Goodridge of Bery Pomerie in the
countie of Devon Yeoma That Whereas S^ Thomas Pomerie late of Bery
Pomerye in the sayd countie of Devon. Knight, deceased, was in his life
tvme lawfullv seized in his demesne of fee of and in the manno^' of Berie
Pomery in the foresayd countie of Devon \\'^\^^ wch manno^ there are
Divers customarie lands pcell of the sayd manno^ demised and demiseable
tyme out of mynde by copie of court Rowle by the lord for the tyme
being or his Steward for three Lyves in possession according to the custom
of the sayd manno^, and the sayd S^ Thomas Pomerye so thereof being
seized, for the consideration of a great some of money gyven to the sayd
S^ Thomas Pomery at a court holden for the sayd manno^ about the
xxxvth year of the Raigne of o^ late Soveraigne Lord Kinge Henry the
eight, did devise and grant one tenement and one farthing and halfe of
land wth thapprten^s in Bery Tythinge together wth one meade called
Buscomb meade, and three closes there lying together called Losehangers,
being all pcell of the sayd customary lands of the sayd manno^ of Bery
IftBtorii of tlft Pomrrog 9ainttQ 64
Pomery above mentioned by copie of court rowlc according to the ciis-
tome of the sayd mannoi* unto Richord Goodridge, George Goodridge and
unto vol* sayd Orator to have and to hold for terme of their lyves accord-
ing to the custome of the sayd manno^. By force whereof the sayd Richord
Goodridg entered and was thereof seized for terme of her lyfe according
to the custome of sayd manno^, and afterw ards the right tytle and inte -est
of the savd mannor of S^ Thomas Pomerv of and in the savd manno**
of Berv J^omerv bv sufficient and lawful convevance come unto S^ Edward
Seymor Knight who is at this present seized thereof accordingly to him and
his heircs. And the sayd Richord Goodridge, mother unto yo^ sayd
Orator being also lately deceased, the sayd George Goodridge by vertue
of the sayd Graunt by copie of Court rowle being next named in the sayd
copie entered into the sayd tenement and other the premisses and was
thereof seized for terme of his lyfe according to the custome of the sayd
mannor. All the sayd premisses after the death surrender or forfeiture
of the sayd George ought to come and remayne to yo»* orator for terme of
his life pccording to the custome of sayd mannor as aforcsayd. But so it
is may it please yo^ good Lordship that the sayd George Goodridge having
by casual meanes gotten into his hands the sayd copie of Courte Rowle
whereby your orator myght mayntayne the graunt to him made of the
premises as aforesayd did secretely conclude and agree with the sayd S^
Edward Seamor for some consideracon betweenc them agreed upon, that
the sayd S'* Edward should issue and grant the said premises unto one
Ambrose Goodridge, sonne of the sayd George secretly in possession wch
the said George uppon a surrender by him to be made of his present estate
in possession. But because of the sayd estate and graunt of the sayd
premises made unto yo^ sayd orator as aforesayd upon surrender of the sayd
George should be presently in beingtherefore the sayd George Goodridge and
the sayd S^ Edw^ard Seamo^ did further agree that as well the sayd S"" Ed-
ward Seamor should either cancell and suppresse or keepe secrete the sayd
Court Rll wherein the sayd graunt of the premises made to the sayd Richord.
George and to yo^ pore orator was enrolled and expressed, as also the sayd
George Goodridge should of purpose cancell, deface and suppresse the
sayd copie of the sayd court Rool to thend by these practices litterly to
bar and exclude yo^ poore orator from his right and title to the premises
by virtue of the sayd graunt. And accordingly S^ Edw^ard Seamor both
either cancelled or defaced the sayd court Rolls wherein the sayd graunt
was enrolled, or els doth keepe the same secrete so that yo^ orator can by
no rneanes attayne to the sight thereof, and the sayd George Goodridge
hath also suppressed and defaced the sayd copie made for the sayd Richord
Goodridge and to yo^ orator, and now of in full eflfecting of their
sayd agreement and unconscionable practice.
the sayd George hath surrendered all his estate in the premises unto the
sayd S^^ Edward Seamor being seized of the sayd mannor as aforesayd,
and the sayd S^ Edward Seamor hath thereuppon graunted the foresayd
tenement and other the premises unto the sayd George and Ambrose
Goodridge by copie of the Court Roll for and during their lives, and the
longest lyver of them successively according to the custom of the sayd
mannor, by means whereof the sayd George Goodridge and Ambrose jointly
^aitbriilQr. I^tukr (ftabrirl. Orutiii
Inheritance of rhi; yuunaer >■':!-
potnrroy flaiiar liouar at 9illa
Tenement to which Sir Thomas de Pomcroyind Dame Jane
retired after the loss of Beny Pomerov-
65 BtBttnhwxtB of Salftlf hf Pomrrr
do hold and enjoy the same. And albeit yo^ sayd orator hath divers and
sundry tymes in most gentle and humble manner by himself and by his
triends earnestly entreated and desired the sayd S^ Edward Seamor that
he would suflFer yo^* sayd orator to be admitted tenant unto the sayd tene-
ment."
(Seamor died before the case was settled and without making any
devise of the said premises. Plaintiff again sues the heirs and the other
Goodridges. The end of the parchment is torn off. There is no other
record of this case now accessible. — C. A. H .)
.065 HUGH POMEROY, (Edward, Richard, Henry, Edward, Thomas,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Jos-
celinus, Radulphus), of Tragoney ; sold the manor of Stokeley Pome-
roy to Griffith Ameredith 38 Henry VHI. Died 23 Sept 1565.
Inquest p. m. 8 Elizabeth. No. 50.
Married, Johan, dau. of Thomas Bowerman, of Isle of Wight.
i/th gen. Children:
.086 Hugh Pomeroy, sonne and heire. +
.087 Henry Pomeroy, second son. +
.077 HENRY POMEROY, (Richard, Thomas, Henry, Edward, Thomas,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Jos-
celinus, Radulphus), son and heir; living 1531 ; m. Anne Huckmore,
(.068) widow of Edward Harris (Harrys), son of Walter Harris.
17th gen. Children:
.088 Richard Pomeroy, son and heir; in ward at the death of his
father. +
.089 Elizabeth Pomeroy.
.079 JOHN POMEROY, (Sinclere, Robert, John. Edward, Thomas,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Jos-
celinus, Radulphus), son and heir, and heir to his grandfather; aged
twenty-six years and more 26 Oct. 1518; d. 16 June 1532. Will
15 June 24 Henry VHI. ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of
///A gen. Children:
.090 Hugh Pomeroy, son and heir, of Ingsden. +
.091 Elizabeth Pomeroy.
.092 Johanna Pomeroy.
.093 Anna Pomeroy.
.080 CHRISTOPHER POMEROY, (John, Robert, John, Edward,
Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), son and heir; bur. Aug., 1590, at
Ilsington ; m
llistiirg of tife Pomrrog JFamilg fifi
J 7th gen. Child:
.094 Isaac Pomeroy, son and heir; bur. April, 1642, at Ilsington.
.081 THOMAS POMEROY. (Thomas, Edzvard, Richard, Henry, Ed-
ward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry^ Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), of Bingley in County Devon, Esq.,
son and heir; aged twenty-two years and more 22 Oct 1565; d. 29
July, buried 3 Aug. 1615, at Brixham, Will 29 July 1615 ; pro. 26
Oct 1623; m. 2 Nov. 1569, at St Giles, Honor, dau. of John Roll
of Stephenson, Esq., and Margaret Ford of Ashburton ; vide pad. post.
1 8th gen. Children:
.095 Valentine Pomeroy of Sanderidge, son and heir. +
.096 Edwahd Pomeroy, second sonne. +
.097 John Pomeroy of Harberton, third sonne.
.086 HUGH POMEROY, (Hugh, Edward, Ricltard, Henry, Edivard,
Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Joscelinus, Radulphus), sonne and heire; aged eleven years at his
father's death.
Married, dau, of Tannar.
J 8th gen. Children:
.098 Jane Pomeroy,* daughter and coheir; married to Richard Penke-
ville of Rossorrow.
.099 Constance Pomeroy, daughter and coheir; married 13 Nov. 1604,
at St Minner, to Robert NichoUs.
.087 HENRY POMEROY, (Hugh, Edward, Ricltard, Henry, Edward,
Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), of Tregoney, second son; Mayor
of Tregoney ; living 1620.
Married, Elizabeth, dau. of John Bony than, of Cury, 15 April
1600, at Saint Columb Major.
J 8th gen. Children:
.0100 Hugh Pomeroy, son and heir; aged eighteen in 1620. Adminis-
trator to his brother Richard, 1659; died s. p.; will 3 July 1673;
pro. 17 June 1674. Prin. Reg. Exeter. His cousin, Roger Pomeroy
of Sanderidge, his sole heir and executor.
.0101 Francis Pomeroy, second son.
.0102 John Pomeroy, third son.
*BiT Jam«B D. McKenzle, "Castles of Bngland," says: "Their deaoeod-
ants were mined in the time of Charles I., and sold the manor to Hugh
Boscowen, Sheriff of Cornwall, in which family it was settled on the Lady
Aaine Fitzgerald, who carried it to her second husband, Francis Roberts,
youngest son of the Earl of Radnor."
67 grHfnt&atttB of Halpty l» PmttMrei
.0103 Henry Pomeroy, fourth son.
.0104 Richard Pomeroy, fifth son. Administration granted to his brother,
Hugh, 1659.
.0105 Eleanor Pomeroy.
.088 RICHARD POMEROY, (Henry, Richard, Thomas, Henry, Ed-
ward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), son and heir; under age at the time
of his father's death and in ward to a Richard Pomeroy; when he
arrived at legal age he obtained a recission of the grant of admin-
istration; living 1560-1593. (First administration not discovered.)
Married; our authorities do not give the name of his wife.
A note from the Rev. A. A. Leonard, Vicar of Beaminster Parish
Church, County Dorset, says: "You will remember my giving you
the date of the baptism of Eltweed Pomeroy, son of Richard. Our
records for some years were destroyed by fire and several bundles
are missing, but I have copied the Diocesan Transcripts to the end
of 1624, and find two other Pomeroys, perhaps younger brothers of
Eltweed."
i8th gen. Children:
.0106 Eltweed Pomeroy, christened July 4, 1585. +
.0107 Edward Pomeroy, bapt. March, 1591; bur. Beaminster, 19 July
1592.
.0108 Henry Pomeroy, bapt. Aug. 1593; m. Oct. 15, 1621, at Symonds-
bury, Dorset, Marget Oventon; he d. s. p. leaving a widow.
.090 HUGH POMEROY, (John, Sinclere, Robert, John, Edward,
Thomas, Henry^ Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), of Ingsden, son and heir, aged
thirteen years and more 19 Dec. 1532; bur. 3 March 1602-3, at
Ilsington. Will 6 Nov. 1602, pro. 27 May 1603. P.C.C. (Bolein
34.)
Married, (1) Barbary, dau. of John Southcote of Indiho in
Bovey Tracey, 5 Feb. 1543-44, at Bovey Tracy; bur. 4 April 1563,
at Ilsington; m. (2) Agnes, dau. of ; bur. 2 March 1597-8,
at Ilsington.
1 8th gen. Children:
.0109 Mary Pomeroy, m. 1 July 1566, at Ilsington to John Ford of
Ashburton.
.0110 Thomasine Pomeroy, bapt. 7 July 1559; bur. 17 April 1566, at
Ilsington.
.0111 Margaret Pomeroy, m. 8 Dec. 1578, at Ilsington to James Woodley,
of Halshanger, Devon.
JftBtorg of thfe Pomgroji Jamllg BB
.0112 Barbarv, bapt. 14 Dec. 1560, at Ilsington; m. 7 May 1602. at
Whitstone. to Philip Chichester; living 1626.
.0113 Elizabeth Pomeroy, bapt. April 1563, at Ilsington; lived at West
Ogwell ; d. unm. Will 10 March 1627 ; pro. 8 Oct. 1630.
.0114 Grace Pomeroy, m. John Gilbert of Bridgerule, County Cornwall;
both livmg 1602.
.0115 Thomas Pomeroy of Bradford, son and heir. +
.0116 George Pomeroy, bur. 6 Feb. 1560-61, at Ilsington.
.0117 Bartholomew Pomeroy.
.0118 John Pomeroy, bapt. 8 Feb. 1561-62, at Ilsington; living 1609 and
1626, aged sixty-five years.
.0119 Richard Pomeroy, living 1602 and 1609. +
.095 VALENTINE POMEROY, (Thomas, Thomas, Edtvard, Richard.
Henry, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Hen-
ry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus^ Radulphiis), of Sanderidge, in County
Devon, liveinge 1620, esq. ; son and heir ; aged forty years and more
at the death of his father ; bur. 14 Aug. 1645, at Stoke Gabriel. Will
23 June, pro. 19 Sept. 1645.
Married (1) Jane, dau. of Sir Thomas Reynell of Og\vell, Kt ;
mar. lie. 23 Jan. 1615-16, Exeter; bur. 10 March 1622-23, at Stoke
Gabriel; m. (2) Margaret, dau. of Sir John Whiddon, Kt. ; mar.
lie. 30 April 1628, Exeter; bur. 11 March 1673-74 at Stoke Gabriel.
Will 6 June 1673 ; pro. 6 May 1674.
ipth gen. Children by ist wife:
.0120 Lettice Pomeroy, first dau. aet. 5, 1620; bur. 9 Oct. 1641, at Stoke
Gabriel.
.0121 Jane Pomeroy, second dau. aet. 3, 1620; mar. Nicholas Roope;
mar. lie. 15 Dec. 1643, Exeter.
.0122 Elizabeth, third daughter, bap. 24 Nov., bur. 25 Dec. 1622, at
Stoke Gabriel.
.0123 Valentine Pomeroy, first son, bapt. 13 Nov. 1621; bur. 30 .April
1623, at Stoke Gabriel.
Children by 2d wife:
.0124 Roger Pomeroy, second son and heir. +
.0125 Valentine Pomeroy of Bindley, third son, bap. 24 Feb. 1630-31. +
.0126 Gilbert Pomeroy, fourth son, bap. 26 Feb. 1631-32, at Stoke
Gabriel; named in the will of his cousin, Hugh Pomeroy of Tre-
goney, 1673; succeeded to the estate on the death of his nephew,
Hugh Pomeroy of Sanderidge; bur. 4 April 1719, at Stoke Gabriel.
Will 5 Jan. 1717-18. pro. 8 April 1719, par. reg. Exeter. Devised
00 S^BmtliantB of fialftlf ht f^amtrtl
all his lands in Devon to Daniel and George, sons of Paul Pomeroy
of Brixham, and the said Paul, etc., in tail male.
.0127 John Pomeroy, fifth son; living 1645; drowned from a boat to-
gether with Francis Whiddon; bur. 8 Sept. 1670.
EDWARD POMEROY, (Thotfias, Thomas, Edward, Richard,
Henry, Edward^ Thomas, Henry, Henry^ Henry^ Heptry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radiilphus), second sonne, bur.
26 Jan. 1656-57, at Brixham ; m. Wilmot, dau. of Periman ;
m. 28, June 1602, at Drewsteignton ; bur. 22 Jan. 1660-61, at Brix-
ham.
ipth gen. Child:
.0128 Honour Pomeroy; entered bill of complaint against her uncle,
Valentine Pomeroy, for withholding securities of credit as executor
of her grandfather's estate which constituted her legacy.
.0106 ELTWEED POMEROY, (Richard, Henry, Richard, Thomas,
Henry, Edivard, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), born in Beaminster,
County Dorset, England; christened July 4, 1585; m. (1) at
Beaminster, 4 May 1617, to Johanna Keech, who d. Nov. 27, 1620,
Beaminster; m. (2) 7 May 1627, at Crewkeme, County Somerset,
Margery Rockett, who emigrated with him to America, and d. at
Windsor, Conn., 5 July 1655; m. (3) at Windsor, Nov. 30, 1661,
Lydia Brown, widow of Thomas Parsons; sett. 1665. He d. Nor-
thampton, Mass., March, 1673, ae 88.
ipth gen. Children by ist wife:
.0129 Dinah Pomeroy, bom in Beaminster, County Dorset, 1618.
.0130 Elizabeth Pomeroy, born in Beaminster. County Dorset, Nov. 27,
1619; bur. there; less than two years of age.
Children by 2d wife:
.0131 Eldad Pomeroy, b. Dorchester, England; freeman in Connecticut,
1638 ; d. Northampton, 22 May 1662.
.0132 Mary Pomeroy, d. at Windsor, 19 Dec. 1640.
.0133 John Pomeroy, d. at Windsor, 1647.
.0134 Medad Pomeroy, bapt. Windsor, 19 Aug. 1638. +
.0135 Caleb Pomeroy, bapt. at Windsor, 6 March 1641. H-
.0136 Mary Pomeroy, bapt. at Windsor, 21 April 1644; d. 1657.
.0137 Joshua Pomeroy, bapt 22 Nov. 1646. +
.0138 Joseph Pomeroy, bapt. 20 June 1652. +
(Continuation in American Pomeroy Records.)
Iftgforg of tt(t Pnittprog yamtlg TO
.0115 THOMAS POMEROY, (Hugh, John, Sinclere, Robert, John,
Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), of Bradford, afterwards of
Ingsdon, son and heir, b. 1550; admitted to the Inner Temple 10
Elizabeth 1567-68; d. 18, bur. 25 April, 1610, at Ilsington. Will
21 Nov. 1609; pro. 13 Feb. 1610-11. P.CC (Wood 9).
Married, Elizabeth, dau. and coheir of John Hengscot, of
Hengscot; m. 10 Feb. 1575-76; bur. June 1599, at Bradford.
ipth gen. Children:
.0139 Dorothy Pomeroy, first dau.; living 1609; m. 1 Feb. 1613-14, at
Bickington, Hugh Wichalse of Barnstaple; bp. March 3, 1587-8,
at Barnstaple ; living 1626.
.0140 Barbary Pomeroy, second dau.; living 1609; m. 30 Dec. 1611, at
Ilsington, to Stephen Southcote, of Southcote, first husband; ob.
s. p.; m. (2) Arthur Seccumbe, of North Petherwin; he m. (2)
Grace, dau. of John Bligh of Comedon, County Cornwall ; his first
wife d. 9 May 1619. Children of Arthur Seccumbe and Grace
Bligh: 20th gen.: 1. Mary Seccumbe. 2. Jane Seccumbe.
0141 Richard Pomeroy, of Ingsden, son and heir. +
.0142 Thomas Pomeroy, bapt. 20 Jan. 1579-80, at Ilsington; living 1609;
m. 1598 Mary GefFray (widow).
.0143 John Pomeroy, living 1609 and 1626. +
.0119 RICHARD POMEROY, (Hugh, John, Sinclere, Robert, John, Ed-
ward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus) , living 1602 and 1609 ; bur. 25 Aug
1626, at Ilsington. Married, (authorities do not give name of wife)
Ipth gen. Children:
.0144 Barbary Pomeroy, bapt. 23 June 1595, at Ilsington.
.0145 Mary Pomeroy, bapt. 20 May 1598, at Ilsington.
.0124 ROGER POMEROY, (Valentine, Thomas, Thomas, Edward,
Richard, Henry, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), second son.
and heir, bapt. 20 Sept. 1629, at Stoke Gabriel; a minor 1645;
executor of his mother's will ; heir to his cousin, Hugh Pomeroy of
Tragoney, 1673; living 1689; bur. 1708, at Stoke Gabriel. Will
pro. 1708, having well served his country in the quality of justice
of the peace, deputy-lieutenant and member of Parliament
Married, Joane, dau. of Elias Wills of Saltash, County Cx>m-
wall ; bur. 13 July 1660, at Stoke Gabriel.
n flgHfgtt&antH of galyly ft? Pomerrt
i-o/A ^^n. Children:
.0146 Elias Pomeroy, son and heir; admitted to the Middle Temple 2£
May 1676; bur. 11 Oct. 1700.
.0147 Roger Pomeroy, bapt. 9 Jan. 1655-56; bur. 17 March 1657-58.
.0148 Joan Pomeroy. +
.0149 Elizabeth Pomeroy, bur. 13 Sept. 1701.
.0125 VALENTINE POMEROY, (Valentine, Thomas, Thomas, Ed-
zvard, Richard, Henry, Edzvard, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), of
Bindley, third son; bapt 24 Feb. 1630-31, at Stoke Gabriel, bur. 20
Oct. 1691, at Harberton. Will 25 Nov. 1689; pro. 21 Nov. 1691;
Arch d. Ct. of Totnes, Exeter.
Married, Lucy, dau. of Hugh Hody of Nithway, County Devon ,
mar. lie. 4 June 1680, Exeter; living 1689.
20th gen. Children:
.0150 Elizabeth Pomeroy, living 1689.
.0150.1 Margaret Pomeroy, bur. 1704.
.0151 John Pomeroy, bur. 1681.
.0152 Hugh Pomeroy of Sandridge, son and heir; a minor 1689. +
.0153 Valentine Pomeroy, third son, bapt. and bur. 1686 at Harburton.
.0154 Valentine Pomeroy, fourth son, bapt. 1687; bur. 1705, at Har-
berton.
.0141 RICHARD POMEROY, (Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclere, Robert,
John, Edzvard, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), of Ingsdon, son and
heir; executor of his father's will; bur. 31 Aug. 1616, at Ilsington.
Will 23 Aug. 1616; pro. 27 May 1617. P.C.C. (Weldon 42.)
Married Anne, dau. of Henry Copleston of Bowden; survived
her husband and re-m. 10 Feb. 1619-20, at St. Mary Major, Exeter,
James Lowman of Whitstone; vide Copleston ped. ante, p. 226
and Lowman ped. 533.
20th gen. Children:
.0155 Amey Pomeroy, a minor, 1616.
.0156 Elizabeth Pomeroy, bapt. 11 Dec 1608, at Bickington; a minor
1616; bur. April 1642, at Ilsington.
.0157 Agnes Pomeroy, bapt. 19 July 1612, at Bickington; a minor 1616;
bur. 3 May 1617, at Ilsington.
.0158 Ann Pomeroy, bapt 1 Sept 1610, at Bickington.
IfiBtorg of lift Pomerog J^amilg 72
.0159 Barbary Pomeroy, a minor 1616.
.0160 Thomas Pomeroy, son and heir. +
.0161 Richard Pomeroy, second son, bapt. 7 Dec. 1604, at Bickington;
living 1616.
.0162 Henry Pomeroy, third son, bapt. 6 Oct. 1606, at Bickington; liv-
ing 1616.
.0163 Hugh Pomeroy, fourth and youngest son. +
.0143 JOHN POMEROY, {Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclere, Robert, John,
Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Joscclinus, Radulphus), living 1609 and 1626.
Married Mary, dau. of Arthur Seccombe and Grace Bligh.
20th gen. Children:
.0164 Mary Pomeroy, bur. 10 Aug. 1630, at St. Stephens-by-Launceston.
.0165 Dorothy Pomeroy, bapt. 24 Feb. 1631, at St. Stephens-by-Laun-
ceston ; m. Sir. James Langham, Bart. ; mar. lie. 22 Aug. 1695 ;
mar. settlement 5 May 1696. Will 6 May 1710; 1st pro. 14 Sept.,
2d pro. 19 Nov. 1713.
.0166 Arthur Pomeroy, b. 1623. +
.0148 JOAN POMEROY, (Roger, Valentine, Thomas, Thomas, Edward,
Richard, Henry, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Ralph), mar. lie. 27 Jan.,
m. 24, Feb. 1679-80 to Humphrey Gilbert of Compton.
2 1 St. gen. Children:
.0167 John Gilbert, m. Ann, dau. of Richard Courtenay (son of Sir
William Courtenay of Powderham Castle).
.0168 Humphrey Pomeroy Gilbert.
.0169 Raleigh Gilbert.
.0170 Elizabeth Gilbert.
22d gen. Children of John and Ann Courtenay Gilbert, (.0167):
.0171 John Gilbert, unm.
.0172 Catherine Gilbert.
.0173 Pomeroy Gilbert, m. Mary, dau. of Edmund Williams of Ply-
mouth. +
.0174 Henrietta Marie Gilbert. .0178 Urania Gilbert.
.0175 Elizabeth Gilbert. .0179 Johan Gilbert.
.0176 Margaret Gilbert. .0180 Humphrey Gilbert.
.0177 Courtney Gilbert. .0181 Lucy Gilbert.
73 BtBtttihaaxtB of fialftlf ht Pomrrn
2jd gen. Children of Pomeroy and Mary W. Gilbert ('Oiyj):
.0182 Mary Gilbert. .0187 Walter Raleigh Gilbert
.0183 Pomeroy Gilbert. .0188 John Gilbert.
.0184 Roger Pomeroy Gilbert. .0189 Lucretia Gilbert.
.0185 Elizabeth Gilbert.
.0186 Edmund Gilbert, m. Ann,
dau. of Henry Garnet of
Bristol. +
^4th. gen. Children of Edmund and Ann Gilbert^ (.0186):
.0190 Ann Clayton Gilbert. .0197 Edmund Williams Gilbert.
.0191 Catherine Hodgson Gilbert .0198 Ann Garnet Gilbert.
.0192 John Pomeroy Gilbert. .0199 Roger Pomeroy Gilbert.
.0193 Elizabeth Garnet Gilbert. .0200 Lucy Gilbert.
.0194 Henry Garnet Gilbert. .0201 Francis Yarde Gilbert.
.0195 Mary Gilbert. .0202 Frances Isabella Gilbert.
.0196 Walter Raleigh Gilbert.
.0152 HUGH POMEROY, ( Valentine, Valentine, Thomas, Thomas, Ed-
ward, Richard, Henry, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphns), of
Sandridge, first son and heir; a minor 1689; bur. 12 Oct. 1715.
Married Anne, dau. of (name of parents not given by our
authorities.)
2ist. gen. Children:
.0203 AxNE Pomeroy, bapt. 1708.
.0204 Margaret Pomeroy.
.0160 THOMAS POMEROY, {Richard, Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclerc,
Robert, John, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), of Ingsden,
son and heir 1616; admitted to the Middle Temple 11 July 1629; bur.
31 May 1662, at Ilsington.
Married, (1) Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Drewe of Grange;
m. (2) Jane, dau. of ; second wife living 9 Oct. 1662.
2 1 St. gen. Children:
.0205 Thomas Pomeroy, of Ingsden, gent, son and heir; sold Ingsden
to John Stowell, 9 Oct. 1662; m. Mary, dau. of ; living 1663.
.0206 Ambrose Pomeroy, bur. S March 1645-46, at Ilsington.
.0207 Jane Pomeroy, dau. and coh., bapt. 19 June 1641; m. 16 Feb.
1668-9, at Ilsington, to the Rev. Richard Wollcombe of Bickington.
.0208 Elizabeth Pomeroy, dau. and coh.; m. John Thomas of Lang-
ford Budville, County Somerset.
IfiBtprg of tift Pomrrog jffamtlg 74
.0163 HUGH POMEROY, (Richard, Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclcrc,
Robert^ John, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinns, Radulphus), fourth and
youngest son, bapt. 24 Nov. 1615, at Bickington; living 1616.
Married, (name not given by our authorities).
2 1 St. gen. Children:
0209 Charles Pomeroy, Esquire; joined Thomas Pomeroy, his cousin,
in the sale of Ingsdon, 1662, and conveyed a tenement of forty-five
acres at Ingesden in 1663 to W. Gascon ; m. Anne, dau. of . . . . :
living 1663.
•0186 REV. ARTHUR POMEROY, {John, Thomas, Hugh, John, Sin-
clere, Robert, John, Edtvard, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Hen-
ry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinns, Radulphus), b. 1623;
gr. Westminster School; admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge,
May 22, 1657; B. A. 1660; M. A. 1664; Chaplain to the Earl of
Essex, Dean of Cork, 1672; Rector of Carrigaline, Shandrum and
Glenlarraghan, and Treasurer of Cloyne. (Aquo Viscount Har-
berton). Married Elizabeth, second dau. of Sir Richard, and sister
and coheir of Sir John Osborne of Ballinglaylor, County Water-
ford. Articles before marriage, 1675. +
2 1 St gen. Children:
.0210 John Pomeroy, son and heir. +
.0211 Richard Pomeroy, d. unm.
.0212 Elizabeth Pomeroy, d. unm.
.0213 Mary Pomeroy, m. 1703, Richard Cox, son of Sir Richard Cox,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland; d. s. p.
.0210' JOHN POMEROY, (Arthur, John, Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclcre,
Robert, John, Edzcard, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinns, Radulphus), son and heir;
after entering into holy orders, he m. 1716, Elizabeth, dau. of
Edmund Donellan, Esq., of County Rosscomon.
22d gen. Children:
.0214 Arthur Pomeroy, eldest son. +
.0215 Lieutenant-General John Pomeroy; was Colonel of the 64th
Foot; promoted to Major-General of His Majesty's troops, May
25, 1772; served in the American Colonies as Major-General during
the Revolution; advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-General, Aug.
29, 1777; was a member of Parliament for Trim, 1761; sworn of
the Privy Council for Ireland in 1777; unm.
.0214 ARTHUR POMEROY, (John, Arthur, John, Thomas, Hugh,
75 iMfettdattlH of Jlalyly ht pptnerrt
John, Sinclere, Robert, John, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radul-
phus)y b. 1723; elected to Parliament from Kildare in 1761, and
continued in that office till the dissolution of that body in 1783;
in Oct., 1783, he was advanced to the peerage of Ireland under the
title of Lord-Baron Harberton of Carbery, county Kildare. He was
introduced to the House of Peers Oct 14, 1783. His title came
from his marriage Oct. 20, 1747, to Mary, dau. and coheir of Henry
Colley of Castle Carbery, county Kildare, brother of Richard, first
Lord Momington, by Lady Mary, dau. of James Hamilton, Earl of
Abercom.
23d gen. Children:
.0216 Henry Pomeroy, b. Dec. 8, 1749; m. Jan., 1788, Mary, dau. of
Nicholas Brady of Grange, county Limerick ; member of Parliament
from Strabane, county Tyrone; s. m. p.
.0217 Arthur- James Pomeroy, b. March 3, 1753; successor to his
brother; unm.
.0218 Henrietta-Judith Pomeroy, b. June 18, 1754; m. July 25, 1776,
Hon. and Rev. Dr. James Hewit, son of James, Viscount Lifford,
Lord Chancellor; she d. April 22, 1778; s. p.
.0219 Elizabeth Pomeroy, d. young.
.0220 Mary Pomeroy, b. March 19, 1757. +
.0221 John Pomeroy, b. Dec. 19, 1758. +
.0222 George Pomeroy, b. March 1, 1764; Lieutenant in the 5th regt.
Dragoon Guards.
.0220 MARY POMEROY, {Arthur, John, Arthur, John, Thomas, Hugh,
John, Sinclere, Robert, John, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radul-
phus), b. March 19, 1757; m. Jan. 23, 1776, John Craven Darden of
Templemore, county Tipperary, Bart. ; she d. Sept. 29, 1778.
24th gen. Children:
.0223 John Craven Darden, b. April, 1777.
.0224 Arthur Darden, b. March, 1778.
.0221 JOHN POMEROY, (Arthur, John, Arthur, John, Thomas, Hugh,
John, Sinclere, Robert, John, Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Hen-
ry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus) , b.
Dec. 19, 1758; in holy orders; rector of Loughgilly, diocese of
Armaugh; m. Oct. 31, 1785, Esther, dau. of James Spencer of
Rathangan, county Kildare.
IfiBtorg of tift PomrroK Sfamtlg TB
24th gen. Children:
.0225 Daughter.
.0226 Rev. and Hon. Arthur Pomeroy. +
.0227 John James Pomeroy. +
.0226 REV. AND HON. ARTHUR POMEROY, (John, Arthur, John,
Arthur, John, Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclcre, Robert, John, Edward.
Tltofnas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), son and heir.
^5th gen. Child:
.0228 John Arthur Pomeroy, eldest son and grandson of the fourth
Viscount Harberton; m. 1869, Louise L. J. D., dau. of Gaitride
Tipping of Rossferry, county Fermaugh; Justice of the Peace of
the counties Tyrone, Fermaugh, Donegal, etc.
.0227 JOHN JAMES POMEROY, (John, Arthur, John, Arthur, John,
Thomas, Hugh, John, Sindere, Robert, John, Edward, Thotnas,
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Jos-
celinus, Radulphus), fifth Viscount Harberton; m. (lady's name un-
known to the Annalist.)
^5lh gen. Children:
.0229 Hon. Esther Caroline Pomeroy, b. 1835. +
.0230 James Spencer Pomeroy, b. Nov. 23, 1836. +
•0229 HON. ESTHER CAROLINE POMEROY, (John, John, Arthur,
John, Arthur, John, Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclere, Robert, John,
Edward, Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus), b. 1835; m. Lieutenant-
General H. M. Hamilton, C. B.
26th gen. Child:
.0231 Edith Althea Pomeroy Hamilton, (Lady Pomeroy Colley) ; m.
1878, Major-General Sir George Pomeroy-Pomeroy Colley; he was
killed in the Boer war.
.0230 JAMES SPENCER POMEROY, (John, John, Arthur, John,
Arthur, John, Thomas, Hugh, John, Sinclere, Robert, John, Edward,
Thomas, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry,
Henry, Joscelinus, Radulphus) , sixth Viscount Harberton and Baron
of Castle Carbery; m. Frances Legge of Malone House, county
Antrim, and was of the House of Legg of which Lord Dartmouth
was the chief; she d. 1911, in London.
26th gen. Children:
.0232 Hon. Ernest Arthur George Pomeroy, oldest son; Second-Lieu-
77 l^iBr^nliantB of fialftlr ^ PomrrH
tenant of 20th Hussars, 1890; Captain of 3d Battalion Royal Ehiblin
Fusileers, 1892-5.
.0233 C.\PTAix Louis Ralph Legge Pomeroy, b. 1869; second son; Cap-
tain of the 6th Dragoon Guards, 1901. Stationed at Ladysmith,
Africa, during the Boer war.
L^vDYSMiTH, Africa, April 3, 1900.
Mr. Ernest O, Pomeroy,
Epworth, III.
Dear Sir: —
I have just got your letter of Nov. 26, as we have only just had
communication restored.
There is only one family of Pomeroy in England to my knowledge.
This is a Pomeroy family that came over with William the Conqueror and
was granted large estates in Devonshire. The head of the family held a
barony from the Conquest till the middle of the reign of Edward I. (1305)
when the direct male line failed, and though the heiress of the family married
a cousin, as was the custom in those days, neither he nor any of his de-
scendants appear to have been summoned to Parliament, and the barony
(which was by writ) expired. The family continued to be of great impor-
tance in Devonshire until 1549, when Sir Thomas Pomeroy, the then
head of the family, was the leader of the unsuccessful Western Insurrection
of the Roman Catholics of Devon and Somerset against the ultra- Protestant
policy of Edward VI. As a result he was beheaded* and the bulk of his
estates were forfeited to the Duke of Somerset, the principal adviser of
Edward VI., known in history as the Lord Protector.
Berry Pomeroy Castle near Totnes in Devon, one of the finest speci-
mens of a medieval castle in England, still belongs to the family of
Seymour, Dukes of Somerset, the descendants of the Duke of Edward
VI.*s time. The family, much shorn of its ancient glory, still continued to
reside in Devon at Engesdon, a manor which has been left to them, and
the ancestor of my family branch went to Ireland as Chaplain to the Earl
of Essex, who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the reig^ of Charles II.
His great-grandsont was created Viscount Harberton in 1783, and since
that date I am certain that no member of our family has gone to seek
his fortune in America, You give no dates so I do not know where your
ancestor would come in. No doubt several of them did seek their fortunes
in America in the middle of the 17th century, as the family was greatly
Impoverished at that time, and I understand that Pomeroy is not an un-
common name in the United States.
I may add that the direct line of the family seated at Engesden became
extinct about the end of the 17th century.
Yours sincerely,
R. L. Pomeroy.
♦Sir Thomas Pomeroy was not beheaded; but his estates were confiscated by-
Sir Edward Seymour, Lord Protector of England and uncle of King Edward VI.
tViscount Harberton was grandson of Rev. Arthur Pomeroy, Dean of Cork.
^Btprg pf lift Pomerog yamtlg TB
3Il|r l|arbitrt0tt Sraitrli bt 9rriati2i
(From Burke's "Peerage/*)
"Rev. Arthur Pomeroy, born 1623, was in 1672 Chaplain to Capel,
Earl of Essex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and afterward Dean of Cork.
The first peer, his grandson, also Rev, Arthur Pomeroy, was made Baron
Harberton of Carberry, in 1783, and Viscount, in 1790. He married Aiary
Colley of Carberry, niece of Lord Momington."
(From Brezver's "Beauties of Ireland.")
"Castle Carberry is of very old date. In the early part of the four-
teenth century it was the embattled residence of the Be(i)rminghams. In
the reign of Elizabeth the castle belonged to Sir Henry Colley, ancestor
of the Duke of Wellington, whose descendants (Colley) resided there
for many generations. Mary, the daughter of Henry Colley, Esq.,
married, in 1747, Arthur Pomeroy, subsequently created Lord Harburton
of Carberry. Newberry, the seat of Lord Harberton, is near Castle Car-
berry, and is a spacious and handsome residence."
(Extract from the New York Herald.)
"The noble house of Harburton, a branch of the ancient House of
Pomeroy in Devon, was created in 1791, temp. George III. James Spencer
Pomeroy, Sixth Viscount Harburton, a peer of Ireland, is the head of the
race of Pomeroy in Great Britain but the old stock has a number of repre-
sentatives in America. The Harburton branch has been settled in Ireland
ever since Arthur Pomeroy went from his ancestral home in Devonshire
to Dublin as Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, the Elarl of Essex, in 1672,
dying as Dean of Cork. Lord Harburton is connected by ties of kinship with
the Duke of Wellington, one of his ancestors, Henry Colley, having been
a brother of the first Duke's father. Lord Mornington. The ill-fated British
General, Sir George Pomeroy Colley, who was killed at Majuba Hill in
the Boer war of a quarter of a century ago, was Lord Harburton's first
cousin.
Vr0tmtttBtrr Abbni
(From the Easthampton Daily Hampshire.)
"The Abbey, as you know, contains monuments to those who have con-
tributed to the greatness of England. There is one monument bearing the
following inscription :
" The Honorable Henry Pomeroy,
the only Son of
Viscount and Viscountess Harburton,
who died at Brighthelmstone,
in the County of Sussex,
on the Tenth day of March, 1804.* "
(From the Clerk of Westminster Abbey.)
"The monument is of white marble. There is a shield on top and the
shield is the St. George's cross, the four quarters being charged with a
Hon rampant, in each supported by two wolves, but being only painted on
7B
CSabttlittr of lift SngliBlf ICittss
the marble it is now much faded, so much so that one cannot now make out
the crest or supporters."
(Salettiiar of tife SttgltsI; ICiitga
This table is presented here to enable the readers to readily place the dates as
given in the English family records.
The House of Normandy
RdfMd
from
William I. 1066-
William II. (3d son) 1087-
Henry I. 1100-
Stephen 1 136-
Th e House of Plant agenet
Henry II. 1154-
Richard L 1189-
John 1199-
Henrylll. 1216-
Edward I. 1272-
Edward II. 1307-
Edward III. 1327-
Richard II. 1377-
The House of L#ancaster
Henry IV. 1399-
Henry V. 1418-
Henry VI. 1422-
The House of York
Edward IV. 1461-
'Edward V. 1483-
Richard III. 1483-
The House of Tudor
Henry VII. 1485-
Henry VIII. 1509-
Edward VI. 1547-
^Mary, dau. of Henry VIII. 1553-
'Elizabeth, dau of H. VIII. 1558-
The House of Stuart
RdiMd
Ycart
from
Ynrf
-21
James I. 6th Scotland 1603-
-22
-13
♦Charles I. 1626-
-24
-35
Charles II. 1649-
-36
-19
Ollver Cromwell, int'r 1649-
- 9
Rich. Cromwell, protector 1658-
- 1
-35
"James II. 1685-
- 3
-10
WiUiam III. 1689-
-19
-17
Anne, dau. of James II. 1702-
-12
-56
The House of Hanover
-35
George I. 1714-
-13
-20
Oeorge II. 1727-
-33
-50
George III. 1760-
-59
-22
George III. Regency 1801-
-19
George IV. 1820-
-10
-13
WlUiam IV. 1880-
- 7
- 9
Victoria 1837-
-63
--39
The Honse of Saxe-Coburg
Edward VII, son of
-22
- 2
Victoria 1901-
- 7
-24
'Murdered.
-38
'And Catherine of Aragon.
- 6
'And Anne Boleyn.
— 5
^Beheaded.
-44
'Deposed.
Authorities: —
"The Visitations of the Counties Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Somerset,
1531, 1564. 1620," with additions by Lieut-Col. J. L. Vivian. Copied by
Mrs. Deborah J. S. Pomeroy Darling ; verified by the Annalist.
The "Domesday Book," Devonshire.
St. Colomb Major, St. Minuer, and St. Stephens-by-Lauceston, Cornwall,
Ilsington, Bovey Tracey, Whitstone, Bradford, Bickington, County Devon,
St. Mary's, Exeter.
"Visitations of Dorsetshire, 1623," and personal verification by the
Annalist.
"Manuscripts in the Dorchester Museum," edited by the Rev. Fred-
erick T. Colby, D.D., F.S.A., and John Paul Rylands, F.S.A., 1888.
"The College of Arms."
The Survey of Dorset, by the Rev. John Coker.
"The Harlein Manuscripts," 1163, in the British Museum, London.
Manuscripts in Somerset House, London.
Parish Records of Beaminster, Crewkerne, Hawkchurch and Exeter.
Manuscripts at Saulisbury, England.
The London Record Office.
Iftfitfirii of tifB Pomrrog Sfamttg BO
ViUasr of Srrrg ^omerog
(From History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Devon; by
William White:)
Berry Pomeroy, a parish less than two miles east of Totnes railway
station has a village of its own name, and a hamlet called Bridgetown,
which forms a handsome suburb of Totnes, with which it is connected by
a good bridge over the Dart Berry Pomeroy parish is in the Totnes union,
county court district, arch-deaconry and rural deanery, Stanborough and
Coleridge petty sessional division, Paignton pooling district of East Devon,
and Haytor hundred. It had 1,090 inhabitants (514 males and 576 females)
in 1871, living in 200 houses, on 4,525 acres of land; including Bridgetown,
which had 605 inhabitants (266 males and 339 females), living in 126
houses. The EHike of Somerset is now lord of the manor and owner of
most of the soil.
dnp (Saotlr of Srrrg ^ootrrog
William the Conqueror gave the manor of Bury or Berry to Ralph
de Pomerai, who built Berry Pomeroy Castle, which for 500 years was the
stately residence of the Pomeroys.
(From Burke's Landed Gentry')
"The Castle of Berry Pomeroy in the county of Devon, one mile
from Totnes, took its name from a Norman estate of Rolfe de Pomeroy, by
whom it was originally erected.
"He came into England with the Norman Conqueror, and his descend-
ants resided here until the reign of Edward VI., (1547-1553), when the
manor is said to have been sold by Sir Thomas de Pomeroy (about 1550)
to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. From the ruins it may be inferred
that the ancient Castle was quadrangular, with a single entrance, upon the
south, between two towers, through a double gateway. They were in the
form of hexagons, one of them being strengthened by angular bastions and
still retaining the arms of the Pomeroys. Over the gateway is a small room
divided by a wall, supported by three pillars and circular arches. This
was probably the chapel. The ruins of the interior part, or quadrangle, are
much more modem than any other portion of the edifice.
"The Castle stood a mile distant toward the east from the parish
church of Biry (Berry) Pomeroy. What it was in its antique form can
hardly be calculated from what at present remains standing, which is only
the front facing the south in a direct line of about sixty cloth-yards in length.
The gate stands toward the west end of the front, over which, carved in
mott-stone, is yet remaining the Pomeroy arms. It had heretofore a double
portcuUus, whose entrance is about twelve feet in height and thirty feet
in length; which gate is embattled, as are the walls yet standing home to
the east end thereof, where answereth yet in being a tower called St.
Margaret's, from which several gentlemen of this county recently held their
lands. Within this is a large quadrangle at the north and east side whereof
the family of Seymour built magnificent structure at the charges of £20,000,
but never brought it to perfection, for the west side of the quadrangle was
never begun.
HI dagtjg of ggrrg ppmgrog
**\Vhat was finished may be thus described: Before the door of the
great hall was a noble walk, whose length was the breadth of the court,
arched over with curiously carved free-stone, supported in the forepart by
several stately pillars of the same stone of great dimensions, after the Cor-
inthian order, standing on pedestals having cornices of friezes finely wrought,
behind which were placed in the wall several seats, of frieze stone also, cut
In the form of an escallop shell in which the com^ any, when weary, might re-
pose themselves.
"The apartments within were very splendid, especially the dining-room,
which was adorned, besides paintings, with statues and figures cut in alabas-
ter, with admirable art and labor ; but the chimney piece of polished marble,
curiously engraved, was of great cost and value. Many other of the rooms
are well adorned with mouldings and fret-work, some of whose marble
clavils v.ere so delicately fine that they would reflect an object true and lively
from a great distance. Notwithstanding which 'tis now demolished, and
all this glory lieth in the dust, buried in its own ruins; there being nothing
standing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approach-
ing funerals. But what we think strangest of all, is that one and the same
age saw the rise and fall of this noble structure."
'This Knight, Sir Ralph de Pomeroy, built a castle here which he
named Berry Pomeroy, and made it a seat of a barony or honour. The
familv of the Pomerovs continued to reside here and hold the chief rank
in this part of the country until the reign of Edward VI., when the manor
of Berry came by forfeiture, cession or sale, it is not agreed which, from the
hands of Sir Thomas Pomerov to the Protector Somerset, one of whose
descendants. Sir Edward Seymour, the second baronet, in the latter part
of his life lived in retirement in the Castle of Berry Pomeroy."
(From the Century Magazine, December^ TS83.)
"Many and curious in Devonshire are the remains which link the past
in picturesque association with the present, and possess for the antiquarian
an interest which few other counties in England can rival. The ruins of
its ancient castles at Oakhampton, at Plympton, at Tiverton, at Totnes,
and at Berry Pomeroy, are among the most striking and beautiful of the
relkrs of feudal times. Though now mouldering in decay and yielding to
the general conquest of the ivy-trailers which cling around and cover with
a thin but densely picturesque mass of evergreen the crumbling stones of
keep, and embattlement, they attest no less by their grandeur, the thickness
of their walls, than by the surroundings of their position, that they were
once among the proudest of the feudal strong-holds of England.
"Perhaps of all these magnificent ruins, the most beautiful in charm and
grandeur are those of Berry Pomeroy. They stand on the crest of a lofty
cliff, and are embowered in woods; when viewed from the vallev below
they impress the beholder with a sense of their exceeding grandeur. Berry
Pomeroy Castle was erected by Rolph de Pomeroy, one of the chief knights
of the Norman conqueror of England. The original extent of its buildings
may be comprehended from the statement that it was a long day's work
for a man-at-arms to open and close the casements belonging to them.
IftBtarg of ttye Pomrrog yamilg B2
"According to one tradition the Castle was bombarded by the King's
troops during the reign of Edward VI., because the head of the House of
Pomeroy refused to obey a mandate of the King to dismantle it. In this
task the King was assisted by a terrific thunder storm; and its exposed
position, from which it towers above the highest trees of the magnificent
wood which surrounds it, would lend weight to the story. Again tradition
recites that it was not until the civil war that the castle was dismantled and
the church adornments carried oflf or destroyed.*'
As a pendent to this picture, it will not be amiss to give here what
Maton has said of the same place, in a tone more picturesque though not
more graphic than the description of the old chronicler.
"Berry Pomeroy Castle stands upon a rocky eminence rising above a
brook. The approach is through a thick beech wood extending along the
slope of a range of hills that entirely intercept any prospect to the south :
on the opposite side there is a steep rocky ridge covered with oak, so that
the ruins are shut into a beautiful valley and in quite a retired and romantic
situation on the banks of a bright stream which flows into the river Dart.
"The remarkable remains of Berry Pomeroy Castle at first suggest
only an idea of some peaceful monastic mansion to the mind of the spectator.
When he perceives frowning turrets, however, massive walls and gloomy
dungeons, his imagination will be wholly at variance with the beauty and
serenity of the spot, and he will think only of sieges, chains, torture and
death.
"The great gate, with the walls of the south front, the north wing of
the court or quadrangle, some apartments on the west side, and a turret or
two are the principal remains of the Castle; and these are so finely over-
hung with the branches of the trees and shrubs that grow close to the walls,
so beautifully mantled with ivy and so richly incrusted with moss, that they
constitute the most picturesque effects that can be imagined.
"And when the surrounding scenery is taken into account, the noble
mass of wood fronting the gate, the bold ridges rising into the horizon,
and the fertile valley rising in the opening to the east, the ruins of Berry
Pomeroy Castle must be considered as almost unparalleled in their grandeur.
The eastern tower is accessible by a passage from the chapel over the gate-
way; here is the best point for surveying the environs of the castle. The
interior part appears to be considerably more modern than the gate and
outer walls, the windows being square or oblong with lintels and cross-
bars of stone. There is, however, in the present mansion a fine apartment
called the great hall, seventy feet long and forty feet wide, while the roof
is of oak very curiously framed, and the chimney piece is fourteen feet in
height. It is going rapidly to decay, however, and the walls being com-
posed of slate, might be entirely demolished with little trouble. To these
details should be added that the Castle was dismantled in the time of the
great Civil War— about 1650."
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(From the "Guide Book of Berry Pomeroy Castle/')
"Immediately over the gateway giving entrance to the tower of Berry
Pomeroy Castle is a small room containing about a dozen loop-holes and
03 (Bagtlg of gerrg pomerog
•
divided by a wall, supported by two pillars and circular arches. This cham-
ber is generally called the chapel, but was evidently the guard-room, seeing
that the opening for the fall of the portcullus still remains in the walls.
The chapel, however, was probably over or adjoining this apartment. In
the above room are steps leading down to two small chambers on each side
of the gateway which are arched over. They are six feet in width and
eleven feet in length and height, and also provided with loop-holes. A
passage leads out of the guard-room to the foot of the winding staircase,
by which visitors may ascend to the summit of the western tower, from
whence a very fine view of the surrounding country can be obtained. In
a direct line from this wall will be found at the eastern extremity of the
ramparts the remains of what are known in history by the name of St.
Margaret's Towers, which possess a peculiar interest from the traditionary
supposition that in its gloomy basement chambers the proud Lady Eleanor
de Pomeroy confined her sister. Lady Matilda, for a lengthened period,
and a belief exists that in olden times a communication by means of a
subterranean passage was afforded from this same dungeon to Compton
Castle, another similarly fortified stronghold on the demesne of Sir Hum-
phrey Gilbert, who colonized Newfoundland, now occupied as a farm house,
and not far distant from Marldon.
"All the portions of the ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle encircling
the interior were indisputably the work of Sir Rolfe de Pomeroy, on whom
the Conqueror bestowed the manor of Alricus the Saxon thane after his
subjugation of England in 1066. The comparatively modem parts are in-
dicative of their having contained many apartments, the windows and after
recesses showing the building to have been at least four stories high, but
the kitchen fire-places here are not nearly so large as those in the older
portion, in the northwest angle, which extends to a width of twelve feet
and large enough to permit a whole ox to be roasted at one time. The
difference in the architectural arrangement is here strikingly exhibited,
which may be accounted for by the change in the proprietorship from the
Pomeroys to the Seymours."
V^rrg Pmn^rog (Stpirrli
This structure appears from the architecture to have been rebuilt in
the fifteenth century, most probably by Sir Richard de Pomeroy, the second
of the four sons of Sir Henry de Pomeroy. The south aisles, however,
must have been added afterward at the expense of sundry persons whose
names are recorded on the scrolls encircling the capitals of the southern pil-
lars. At the front of one of the tombs in Berry churchyard were the arms
of the Pomeroys, at the western end of the monument, and at the eastern
end a shield, supported by two angels, at one time displayed Pomeroy arms
impaled with those of Sir Richard Denzell, of Filleigh, whose daughter
Elizabeth married Richard, who was of the fifteenth generation from Rolfe,
and whose mother was Alice, daughter of Walter Raleigh. Judging from
the style of architecture, the church it is believed was erected during the
lifetime of this Sir Richard, between 1470-1512, and who may possibly
have been incited to undertake the work through the will of his brother
Sir St. Qere de Pomeroy, at that time Abbot of Buckfast
IftHtorg of tiff Prntmrog JFamihi 84
Concerning this church, Prince, who was long the Vicar, tells us in the
Worthies of Devon, that it was founded perhaps by Sir Richard Pomeroy,
and that it is a **handsome, compact althoupfh no large pile: Whose coat-
armour is intin£!^ed in the glass of several windows thereof, with their
matches, remaining still plain and visible to the eye. Thus we have it
twice single in the first south window within the door; once single as I
take it in the east window of the chancel ; also, in the east window of the
north aisle is Pomerai's coat three times ; once single and twice paled, with
the Raleigh and Denzel. In the first north window it is twice single; and
in the second, once ; and in the roof of the church porch doth it still remain,
cut in stone, which undoubtedly has been long there continued ever since
the first building thereof.
"As for the monuments raised over the graves or sepulchres of the
dead, relating to this family, there is only one remaining, now robbed of its
former splendour: It is an altar-tomb, under an arch, in the north wall
of the chancel, raised near breast-high, covered with a fair table of green
marble : which was sometime inlaved with a coat of arms, and a motto under,
of gilded brass or copper; which are long since become the prey of some
greedy hands. At the east end of this monument is Pomerai impaled with
Denzil ; at the west end single : Which shew it was raised to the memory
of Sir Richard Pomeroy and his lady, who was daughter and heir of Sir
Richard Denzil. The arch is finelv fretted and flowered.
"The last of this name that possessed the castle of Biry, was Sir Thomas
Pomeroy, Knight, a commander in the wars under King Henry the Eighth,
in France. How he and his posterity came to be dispossessed thereof, may
be enquired elsewhere."
The magnificent screen with the projection of the rood-loft remaining,
is profusely adorned with fern tracery, handsome perpendicular bosses,
carving and gilding. The lower part of it having been much mutilated by
malicious vandals; the carved figures in the compartments into which it
was divided are therefore very indistinct.
In the tower of the church, which is square and embattled, there was
once apparently a chapel opening beneath an arch on the southern side.
Above the place where the altar must have stood, there remains a stone
shelf which was doubtless a retable. Three of the bells are dated 1607,
1635 and 1715, and are inscribed in the name of the church wardens. A
fourth bell was hung in the year 1829.
V^rrg ^mxBt and Htnuragr
Contiguous to the church on the northeast side stands Berry Pomeroy
House, which before the Reformation was doubtless the Rectorv House
and occasional residence of the Prior of Moreton, to whom the Rectory
then belonged. The dining-room is wainscoted and has two square-headed
perpendicular doorways. The house also contains some fine specimens of
oak carving.
On the southern side of the church is the Vicarage, where the Rev.
John Prince wrote the "Worthies of Devon," the first edition of which was
published in 1701. He died in 1723, and was buried in the churchyard of the
parish of Berry Pomeroy, of which he had been vicar for forty-two years,
Aiiriml aub fiirli ^atiirA (iilasn IDfnfiiiui
Bern Pomcrnv Church
Ihr Brfatrb ftcrrcn
Berrj- Pomcroy Church
05 glaBllg of gerrg Pomrrog
and previous to this he had been vicar of Totnes, which was a part of the
Pomeroy domain, about five years.
The Rev. John Prince was succeeded by Rev. Joseph Fox, who died
1st February, 1781, aged eighty- four, having been fifty-eight years Vicar
of Berry Pomeroy. He was succeeded by the Rev. John Edwards, who died
on the 23d April, 1834, aged eighty-three, having been Vicar for fifty-three
years. He died at Blagdon, and his Curate, the Rev. Edward Brown, be-
came Vicar. In 1843 he exchanged livings with the Rev. William Bur-
rough Cosens, who died at Berry Vicarage on November 1st, 1861, after
having been Vicar for eighteen years. He was succeeded on the 28th
November, 1861, by the Rev. Arthur J. Everett (second son of the late
Joseph Everett, Esq., D.L., P.J., of Greenhill House, Wilts), and was in-
stituted 14th February, 1862, and resigning the living on the 29th February,
1896, he was succeeded in March of the same year by the Rev. H. S. Prinsep,
formerly Curate of Southgate, a nephew of the Duchess of Somerset.
The architectural features of the Castle Mill on the manor of Berry
Pomeroy are well worth examining. You reach it by a narrow winding
path on the northeast side of the castle at the foot of a hill by which runs
a little brook. The water of the brook after being confined by a dam serves
to turn the mill wheel. Although the water power is at present made use
of for the purpose of sawing wood, in ages gone by it was employed in sup-
plying the needs of the castle. By surmounting the bank on the opposite
side of the stream one can obtain a view of the ruins somewhat less ob-
structed than any that can be had at any other point.
QHir ittaurrrrtUnt in firoottaliine
(From Mortimer's "Berry Pomeroy Castle/*)
"The Devon insurrection was in 1549. In this rebellion Sir Thomas
Pomeroy was deeply concerned, and being the last of the family who occupied
Berry Castle it is averred by some historians that he saved his life by mak-
ing over the manor and castle of Berry Pomeroy to E^rd Protector, Edward
Seymour, Duke of Somerset.
**Lyson says this estate came into possession of the Seymours by grant
or purchase from the Crown, since at the time of the attainder of Sir
Thomas, the Protector was in the Tower of London on a charge of treason,
of which he was acquitted, but afterwards being found guilty of felony was
beheaded on Tower Hill, December, 1551. His brother, Sir Thomas Sey-
mour, Lord Dudley, Lord High Admiral of England, was executed March
20, 1549."
(From "The Battle Abbey Roll/' vol. 3, by the Duchess of Cleveland, 1889.)
"The Castle and Honour of Berry Pomeroy in Devonshire which had
been purchased by the Protector, was restored in blood by Edward VI., the
year after his (Seymour's) father's execution."
IliBtorg of tlfe Pomrrog jfanrilg Bfi
"Sir Thomas Pomeroy is described as a 'simple gente'* and his life
was perhaps spared on account of his feeble intellect, but no mercy was
shown to his estate. After a short struggle he was forced to relinquish the
stately home that had been the head of the house since the days of the
Conqueror, and Berry Pomeroy was sold to the Seymours."
"In 1549, in the west of Devon, the insurrection had affected a higher
grade. Sir Thomas Pomeroy and Sir Humphrey Arundel of the North of
Devon, and other men of weight and property, had 20,000 men under the
banner of the cross." Arundel was Governor of St. Michael's Mount. He
and three others were hanged at Tyburn. Sir Thomas Pomeroy retired
to his Castle of Berry Pomeroy and put up a stout resistance against the
King's troops, but by the treachery of one of the sub-tenants, who had
knowledge of the secret subterranean passage leading to Compton Castle,
Bery Pomeroy was betrayed and fell into the hands of the King's troops.
— Froude's England.
Saat ^itgf nf tife (Saatlr
(From the "Guide Book of Berry Pomeroy Castle/')
"The Pomeroys, as descendants of the Feudal Barons, having for cen-
turies enjoyed within their extensive domains a power almost equal to that
of the Crown, they could ill restrain that imperative authority, which for gen-
erations they had assumed as a primogenial right, and which was ever rec-
ognized as such by the ruling monarchs. At the order then for dismantling
th^ castles of England, the inheritors of Castle de Pomeroy, tradition affirms,
resisted the royal mandates. A siege was commenced in consequence by
^Thifl statement or surmise that Sir Thomas Pomeroy's mentality was
impaired at this time or later should not be taken seriously. On the contrary,
not many years previous to this insurrection he had attended Henry VIII.,
in his wars in France, and displayed eufflcient force of character and good
fortune in arms to attract the confidence of that war-like monarch. How-
ever, his action during the insurrection in Devon was that of one whose
sympathies were with his people. Like views were expressed by H. Sterling
Pomeroy, M. D., in a letter from Totnes, England, in 1907. The Doctor said: "Sir
Thomas de Pomeroy stood by his faith, partly at least, because he very Justly
believed that Justice and fair play to the commoners was on that side as
against the other, which was serving the ends of personal ambition and
private greed. We should be proud of Sir Thomas de Pomeroy, and glad that
he took Just the stand he did. In his time and place we would doubtless
have done the same. But such action is expensive. The most expensive
luxury one can purchase without loss of self-respect, is that of being right
rather than to be with the King. His poor neighbors and tenants whom he
had tried to aid and defend were now helpless; nay, many of them maimed or
dead; others in prison; some of them condemned to death. All this brings
up a picture which I think has occurred to few of us, yet it is a true and Just
definition of what actually happened to him and his. It is a matter of sensitive
regard for the things of human weal, which make for the harmony of this
universe as the Creator intended it should. It is a matter of the manhood
that spells out duty to his fellow man, so that it shall be the result of
mental and physical courage; without fear to move a step ahead of his place and
time; to take that step, and with it the penalties and pains, which are always the
heritage of the one who dares to lead. Such an one was our grandfather,
such an one was our father, but above all and before all such an one
was our progenitor in America, in 1630, Eltweed Pomeroy."
a? (Eaatb of Srrrtr Pomrrog
the forces of King Edward VI., (1549), which was long, obstinately, and
with bravery withstood by those feudal Princes of the Castle, Sir Thomas
de Pomeroy and his kinsmen with their numerous retinue. Spurred on
by the most determined resolution, to live or die free men, rather than, as
they imagined, basely survive the loss of those long-enjoyed honors which
were now by the arm of tyranny to be wrested from them, they so incensed
the king by their temerity that he forthwith issued most peremptory orders
for their subjugation. Much time as well as blood and treasure were con-
sumed in front of the walls of the Castle of Berry Pomeroy ere this strong
and stately fortress ceased to shelter its valiant defenders; inside their al-
most impregnable fortress were the besieged, protected by its turreted and
castelated walls, while the besiegers, exposed to the constant showers of
destructive missiles, fell on all sides, till the slaughter among the King's
soldiers was appalling. At length, however, either by force, stratagem or
treason, the Castle was carried. Tradition affirms that Pomeroys, rather
than suiTive their lost or faded glories, rather than submit to do homage to
an incensed monarch, blindfolded their horses and mounting spurred them
to the northern precipice on which the Castle stands, which but to look from
might appal the stoutest heart"
"The English poet Keats has inscribed the tribute contained in these
lines to the defenders of the Castle of Berry Pomeroy :
"Hark! heard you not those ahouta of dreadful noteT
Sounds not the conflict on the heath T
Saw ye not where the reeking sabre smote;
Nor saved your brethren ere they sank beneath
Tyrants and tyrants' slaves? The fires of death.
The bale-fires flash on high; from rock to rock
Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe/'
Historians differ widely as to the manner in which the Seymours suc-
ceeded the Pomeroys in the ownership of this ancient domain, but in order
to correct any erroneous impressions we here furnish the written testimony
of the late twelfth Duke of Somerset, who in a letter from Stover, Devon,
under the date of January 5, 1875, said : **I can state that Berry Pomeroy
Castle was purchased in the reign of Edward VI." And in corroboration
of this statement we copy the following from an old engraving representing
the south view of Berry Pomeroy Castle and dedicated to Sir Edward
Seymour of Maiden Bradley, in the county of Wilts, Bart., by Saml. and
NathL Buck:
"This Castle was built by Sir Ralph de Pomeroy, in the Conqueror's
time, and was the head Barony of his Family ; his Posterity continued many
descents there, till the time of King Edward VI., when it was sold by
Sir Thomas de Pomeroy unto Ed Seymour,* Duke of Somerset, who set-
tled this manor with several others on his issue by his first Lady Catherine,
(*The painter of the picture, of which the engraving referred to here is a
copy, was at the time in the employ of Ed Seymour and painted the picture
to his order; he was doubtless directed to paint in the words of the legend
Just quoted. — ^A. A. P.)
IfiHtorg of tlfp Pomerou jfamttg BB
daughter and co-heir to Sir Um. Filliot of Woodville, from whom the
present Sir Edward is directly descended. — S. & X. Buck, Delin. et Sculp.,
1734."
VFatrirr ^imtrrot} nf Nrtlf^r 9tamt^
(From the Domesday Book.)
To the genealogist the Exeter text (Exon Domesday Book), History
of Somerset, V'^ictoria Histories, vol. I, 430 is a record of the greatest value :
for it enables us at times to identify those of whom the Exchequer text
gives us but the Christian names.
"Again, the Beatrice who holds of Ralf de Pomerei at Nether Stowey
is entered in the Exeter book as Ralph's sister. Mr. Eyton points out that
she also held of him a Devon manor ; while she held further in that county
two manors of William Capra, who is similarly entered as her brother.
On the strength of this he asserted that Ralph and William de Pomerei
were brothers (Somerset Domesday, vol i, p. 64), and although this may
seem not absolutely clear, it is interesting to note that Roger Capra and
William his son were benefactors in the next generation to the Pommeraye
Abbey of St. Mary du Val." — (Calendar of Documents, France, page 536.)
It has developed that Beatrice mentioned in the above extracts, as sister
of Sir Ralph de Pomeroy, was Abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of St.
Michael's Mount, in Mount Bay.
#ast2iri&9t« Srbim
(From "Worthies of Dczwt/* />. 285^ under "Capt. John Darics.'')
"Sandridge, Devon, near Berry Pomeroy, became the inheritance of
the ancient and honorable family of Berry Pomeroy, and most likely at last,
the portion of a younger son of Berry Castle, in the parish of Berry Pome-
roy, about four miles from (it) ; though afterwards it yielded a strain for
that ancient and noble house. For Sir John de la Pommeraye of Berry
Pomeroy, of the tentli generation, having no heirs, settled his lands (about
1404) upon Sir Thomas of Sandridge, aforesaid, who had married Joan,
daughter of Sir James Chudleigh. Kt., by his wife Joan Pomeroy, sister of
the said Sir John. Sandridge still remains in this honorable name, and is
at this time (1701) the dw^elling of Roger Pomeroy, Esq., the topmost
branch of this ancient stock."
"This family was not only very noble in its original, but in its alliances,
matching once with the blood royal and several times with the daughters
of the principal peers of the realm. Here (Berry Pomeroy) this great
progeny had their dwelling from the time of the Norman conquest to the
days of King Edward VI., about 5(X) years."
"Still of the Castle there remain
Legends that evidence sustain."
But among the many handed down to posterity there is none more cher-
(Ttir (din fBUl
Berry Pomeroy Castle
aa Hfgtnhs of ttfr (flaatU
ished than the one relating to the Pomero\s at the time of the last siege,
when prior to their desperate leap over the precipice, tliey
— '"first had buried In the soil
What foes had fought for — gold and spoil,'*
and of the scene that followed, Mrs. Cuming:, late of Totnes. :i;itli«.rc-'^ oi*
the **Forest of Arden," and other poems, thus wrote in poetical language:
"This rumour, then so widely known.
Into the neighb'ring towns had flown.
And peasants, and the idle poor,
All loathdng work, and loving gain.
Would oft discuss the ancient lore.
And wonder if there could be found
Without much labour, loss, or pain
A treasure hidden underground;
'And one who better days had known.
W^ent there to lodge by night and day.
Went there to dig. and wierd and lone.
He frightened all who passed that way.
But years before this wight was born.
A peasant rose at earliest morn.
For thrice within the night he dreamed.
That he must with the dawn of day
To Pomeroy Castle make his way;
A call from Heaven it seemed.
At least so much impelled, tbat he
Firmly believed that he should be
Rewarded, and should realize
His brightest hopes, and gain a prizn.
• ••••«
Resolved, he took the nearest track.*
With fitting tools upon his back.
And as he trudged his way along
He met a burly country squire —
Thus putting out his humdrum song —
W*ho stopped him and must needs enquire
•Where he was going that early morn
'Ere dews were dry. or sun was born.
'Art going to v^ork upon this track
'With pick and shovel on thy back?
T thought that thou had'st laid them by.
'And parish rates thy wants supply.*
Such men as these were then put down
By lofty menace, scoff, or frown;
With these combined he did compel
The quarry-man his dream to tell;
Told him the place would surely fall;
That all the treasure he would gain
Was ridicule, and loss, and pain;
Threatened to cudgel him withal;
In short, such rhetoric employed
As finally his dupe decoyed
To turn at once and go to bed.
Now — who was he, who went— instead.
*A fact.
i^Btortt of tifi Pmnrrog jfmnilg 90
When the last fading rays of light
Had given place to darkest night,
His mother had not known the one.
In his disguise, for her own son;
And over all a cloak he wore.
Concealing miner's spade and bore,
His nerves were firm, his pulse was strong.
As thus equipped he stole along.
With stealthy steps made good his way.
Through Berry where the ruins lay.
Gossips relate, when centuries meet,
The shades of the departed greet
Each other in the midnight air,
And that such trysting place was there.
No such puerile fancies then
Disturbed this man, nor fear of men,
But little knew that one was there
Concealed within a dungeon near.
Who, hearing footsteps coming on.
Though in a paralysis of fear,
Had, longing, dying, wish to see
Who he who thus forstalled should be.
Had cautiously — how cautiously! drawn near.
A sudden flash from lanthorn fire
Showed the suspected one— the squire;
If Argus had one hundred eyes.
Rumour a thousand tongues supplies;
But whether either of the twain
Obtained the prize they hoped to gain,
As in his dream one saw it hid
In an old crock without a lid.
The doubtful chronicler of old
Deposes not, nor could have told.
The squire, the peasant, both are laid
Within the nearest churchyard soil,
Where death hath no distinction made
In the rich man, or him of toll."
Among the variety of legends handed down in regard to the Castle
there are many of a sensational character, of the type of which love and
violence predominate. According to the superstitious, Berry Pomeroy
Castle and its grounds are said to be still haunted. One story avers that
a fair maid of the Castle plighted her troth to a son of a neighboring lord,
between whom and the Pomeroys a life-blood feud raged, and tliat a brother
of the young lady came upon them in a rose bower and killed both. Tales
of this description are innumerable and it is not surprising, therefore, when
the shadows of the night fall that ghosts are conjured up in the minds
of the imaginative. But perhaps no tale is more cherished than the one
relating to the Pomeroys at the time of the last siege of the Castle, when
prior to their desperate leap over the precipice the Barons had buried in
the soil the gold and spoil their foes had fought for.
A local legend at Berry Pomeroy concerning Henry de la Pomeroy
asserts that he never left Berry Pomeroy, and that when the King's pur-
91 i^reiiHUm of % ^t\pamxcB
suivant came to arrest him he mounted his horse and leaped from the
battlements into the valley below.
"Out over the cliife, out into the night,
Three hundred feet of fall;
They found him next morning below in the glen,
With never a bone In him whole;
A mass and a prayer, good genrtlemen, all.
For such a bold rider's soul."
"The wishing tree of Berry Pomeroy is the prettiest superstition of the
place, and is the only one left in England. It is a lofty wide-spreading
beech. The wisher is to walk three times around the tree with the sun,
and three times backward, thinking of the wish that must be unspoken and
unknown to any one. The wish will come true."
^txtttBj^xni of tip i^tgtttottrs
The descendants of the founder of Berry Pomeroy Castle retained
the lands appertaining to their ancestral home, and mingled their names in
song and legend for a period of nearly five centuries, that is, from 1066 to
1549, the third year, of the reign of Edward VI., as already stated, when,
according to one writer, "they were forfeited by the treason of Sir Thomas
Pomeroy,. and bestowed upon the hauty Lord Protector, Somerset (Edward
Seymour), who first rose into royal favor by the marriage of his eldest
sister, Jane, to Henry VIII.; and this monarch, under his will, appointed
him one of his executors and a member of the Council upon whom devolved
the duty of executing the powers of the Crown during the minority of his
son and successor, Edward VL, who was also, of course, a nephew of
Somerset's. It may here be stated that the Seymour family, whose history
is largely interwoven with that of England, derives its name from a place
called St. Maur, in Normandy; and that at the period of the Reformation
the head of this illustrious house was Sir John Seymour, who accompanied
King Henry VIII., to his wars in France, and to the Field of the Cloth
of Gold. His eldest son was the before mentioned Edward Seymour, who
was created a few days after the royal nuptials, Viscount Beauchamp,
and in the following year raised to the dignity of Earl of Hertford. King
Henry VIII., seems to have placed great confidence in his brother-in-law,
who, quickly obtaining an ascendancy over the other councillors, was nomi-
nated Lord Treasurer of England and created Duke of Somerset on the 17th
of February, 1547. Two days after this he obtained a grant of the ofHce
of Earl Marshal for life, and on the 12th of March following, procured a
patent from the young King, constituting himself Protector of the Realm —
an office altogether new to the Constitution — thus giving himself full regal
power.
At this jimcture the reforms in the Church, instituted by the advisors
of young King Edward, excited considerable discontent, and the conspic-
uous part enacted by the owners of Berry Pomeroy in public affairs, to-
gether with the feeling of the country, may not be inaptly alluded to here.
Amongst other causes for complaint were the exorbitant rents demanded
for the confiscated Abbey lands by the new proprietors, who created fur-
ther discontent by frequently spending the money in London. The cottagers
I^iatari) of tl|r Pomrroy IFamilg 92
wtM'e also reduced to misery, by the enclosure of the conimons on which they
pastured their cattle. And the discovery of the West Indies causing a
general increase of gold and silver in Europe, the price of commodities
iiad to be raised: a debasement of coin, moreover, by Henry \'I1I., and
>ubsequently by the Protector, occasioning universal distrust and stagna-
lion of commerce. Consequently, a rising soon began in several parts of
iingland ; and although the rioters in most places were instantly subdued, in
Devonshire and Norfolk the disorders assumed, in 154S1, more serious pro-
portions. In Devonshire the rioters organized quite a formidable army,
mustering about 10,000 in number, who besieged Exeter, demanding that
the mass should be restored, half of the Abbev lands resumed, the law of the
six articles executed, holy water and holy bread respected, and all other
particular grievances redressed. I-ord Kussell, who had been dispatched
against them, rouie<l the rioters, and took many prisoners: the leaders being
sent to London, where thev were tried and executed, whilst manv of the
lower classes were put to death by martial law.
In the Civil Wars between Charles 1.. and the Parliament, Pomeroy
Castle was dismantled — thus denuding it of its once stately power: but it
was occupied in magnificent state until the reign of James II., (1685) by
Edward Seymour, who headed a rising against that monarch, and was at
that period styled the haughty and magnificent leader of *'the country
party." I'rom the time of this Seymour's decease, the mansion appears to
have fallen into deoav, and tradition ascribes its destruction to a terrible
thunder storm when it was set on fire by the scathing lightning. Whilst
anotlu-r version declares that the castle was taken in the time of Charles I.,
and carried by great guns planted on the hills opposite the precipice. The
latter story of its having been stormed by artillery sufficiently accounts
(says Mrs. IJray) for this side is more battered than any other part of
the btiilding, various circumstances existing, likewise, to render the state-
ment more than probable. — {^Cuide Book of Hcrry Pomeroy Castle.)
U;t;r ^riturr of (^rattgp at Hrrrg t^omi^rog
During the Revolution in England, at the time of the succession of
William Prince of ( )range, after his unopposed landing at Brixham, Devon,
on November 5. KiSS. where a monument to commemorate the event now
stands on the cpiay, that Silent Prince advanced slowly with his force of
13.(XX) men, the first halt beinir at Berrv Pomerov, where he was met bv
a large number of English nobles and others. The conference held in cot-
tages on the old manor of Berry Pomeroy was termed their first Parliament,
the place of assembly l^eing known to this day as Parliament Cottages. In
1887, a stone recording the fact was erected. The rising ground on the
simimit of which stands a cluster of trees, is now called Parliament Hill,
which, from its elevated position, can be seen for many miles around. The
Prince ])roceeded thence through .\ewton Abbot and in four days reached
Exeter, where he was received with jov as the champion of the Protestant
faith.
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93 pom^rog IHanora in (Eornmull
Ifiamtrn^ ftatutra in Cfliirtutfall
(From History of Conizivll; by the Kci. R. Pohchclc.)
**Heiiry Pomeroy. lord of this manor in ilic time of Henry I., was the
f descendant of Ralph de Pomcraye. who came into ICnp^Iand with Wilh'ani
the Conqueror, and was snch a favorite <»f his. as Duj^^dale saith in his
Baronage, that he conferred npon him tifty-cijn^ht lordships in Devon, others
in Somerset, in Dorset, and in Cornwall, whereof this Tre.^ny and W^ich
fnow Mary-Wike) in Cornwall were two. Pcrha[>s they were such lands
as fell to the Crown by virtue of their lords or owners rehellinij: ajjain^^t
the Conqueror in that insurrection o\ l^xon. in the second year of hi*^
reipfn. This Ralph de Pomeroy had issne Joscelinus. wh'we <on TTenry
married one of the natural daujrhters (Rohesia'j of Kin.cf Henry T.. by
Corbett's daughter (Sibella). mother also by him of Reginald hiiz-Henry.
Earl of Cornwall, the which Henry had issue by her Henry and joscelin.
Elenrv married de Vitrei*s daucrhter. and bv her had issue Sir Henrv de
Pomercn-. lord of this place and Biry i^>meroye in Devon, who sided with
John, Earl of Moreton and Cornwall against King Richard I., then beyond
the seas: and afterwards gave to the Knights Hospitallers f»f !^t. John Bap-
I tist the church of St. Madcrne in Penwith: whereupon it ever after be-
longed to their preceptory at Trebigh. in St. Euo. King John, by virtue ui'
his manor at Tibesta. granted the libcrtv of fishing, or the rovaltv of the
river \'ale, to one of the Pomeroyes. Irird of this manor.
"To remove an action at law depending in the court-leet of Tregoney.
the writ of certiorari,'^ or acccdas ad curiam was thus directed, as was also
the precept for members of Parliament: 'Hcnricus Pomeroy. Senescha/lo
et Balliz'o Mancnii sui de Trcj^oni Pomcrny in comitatii Cnrnuhla salutem:'
* again, 'ad curiam C. IV. arm de Trc^c^oucy in cnmitatu Coniubine salutem/ "
"Tregony occurs in Domesday among the lands of the Earl of ^^oreton
and Cornwall, the King's brother, who held Tregoin or Tregoni : after
which this manor, I find came very early into the ancient family of the
Pomerovs, who no doubt obtained crrcat inheritance in this countv bv the
marriage of Henry with a natural daughter of King Henry T.. and whose
k grandson Henry by marriage with Johanna de X'alletort. left issue a .son
• named Henry likewi.^e. who. Anno IS Edward I., was found next heir to
the last of that noble family: whose ancestor. Roger de \alletort. Anno 32
Henry H.. gave that King 100 marks for the honour of ^[oreton. To
which honour this borough, with the two Looes and Saltash. I should judge
to have belonged and been comprehended among the knight's fees, and so
to have from the X'alletorts descended to the Pomeroys; but that I find
them possessed of it in Henry HI.'s time, in the 44th year of whose reign
•The writ of certiorari, or summons to the court: Henry Pomeroy, greet-
ing to the seneschall (steward) and bailif of his manory in Tregony in
Pomeroy*8 retinue of Cornwall: again, Christopher Wolvedon, to the court,
in armor of Trlgony In the retinue of Cornwall, greetings. (Cornubia is the
new Lfatin for Cornwall.)
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IfiBtani of % pmn^nig JTamUn 94
Henry de Pomeroy held the manor of Tregoney.* The Castle of Tregoney,
tradition saith, was built by Henry de Pomeray on behalf of John, Earl
of Cornwall, in opposition to King Richard I., his elder brother, then be-
yond the Seas." — Hals,
"Tregony, about three miles south of Grampound, was formerly a dis-
tinct parish, but is now merged in Cuby, its church having been long since
destroyed. Being situated on the Fal, Tregony has sometimes been sug-
gested In connection with the Roman station of Cemon, but Cemon was
almost certainly Kenwyn. The place actually returned two members to
Parliament in the time of Henry I., probably through the influence of its
lords, the Pomeroys, who had a castle there." — Arthur L. Salmon, Cornwall.
"At Tregony are some trifling remains of a castle said to have been
built by Henry de Pomeroy when Richard I., was in the Holy Land.
Tregony was an ancient borough sending members to Parliament in the
reign of Edward I." — Handbook for Travelers in Cornzvall, Murray.
"There is a keep and castle yet standing at Tregoney, of no longer
date than the conquest. It was erected by the Pomeroys, whose seat it was.
So far Tonkin, (an early writer on the district, 1678-1742). But at present
time there is scarcely the trace of a ruin. "Ruan, Lanyhorne Castle, (says
Tonkin), stood to the south of the church, at no great distance from it,
the rectory house lying between them; below that and parallel with this,
in a pleasant situation enough, on the edge of a creek, into which a small
rivulet empties itself, and the river Pale, which is here of considerable
breadth when the tide is in; and surrounded formerly with woods which
are now mostly destroyed. Leland gives this account of the state it was in,
in his time." — History of Cornwall, Rez\ R. Polwhele,
"At the lower end of this town (Tregoney) on the east side of Fal
River, a little below the hospital, is an earthwork on a hill, still called
Castle Hill, on which are some scanty remains of a castle built by Sir
Henry de Pomeroy (temp. Richard I.). Tradition says that Baron Pome-
roy, being appointed Lord of the Manor in the reign of Henry H., on
behalf of Prince John, Earl of Mortain and Cornwall, espoused the cause
of John when in rebellion against his brother Richard L The castle was
standing and remained a seat of these Pomeroys until the reign of Edward
"Tragoney is a small borough town on the same side of the river,
three miles to the southwest of Grampound. It is a place of great antiquity,
being mentioned in Domesday Book as part of the Earldom of Cornwall,
given by the Conqueror to his brother Robert, from whom it descended to
the family of Pomeroy, who were in possession of it till the reign of
Elizabeth, but either by descent or purchase, it is now part of the estate
of the noble family of Boscowen.
"In the 40th year of King Henry III., the Pomeroy family was re-
turned among the first-class land holders ; they continued to possess consid-
erable landed property in Cornwall for several generations, their chief seat
being at Tragoney, and holding thirty librates of land.
* Roger Pomeroy (nineteenth generation from Sir Ralph) burled 23 July
1708, was heir to his cousin Hugh, who died seised of Tregony, 8 Elisabeth.
—A. A. P.
95 pomrrog Maxmta in CHortttuaU
"From Tregony to passe down by the body of the haven of Falamuth,
to the mouth of Lanyhorne creeke or hille, on the south-est side of the
haven, is a two miles. This creke goith up half a mile from the principale
streame of the haven. At the head of this creke standith the castelle of
Lanyhorne, sumtyme a castelle of an eight towres & now decaying for lak
of coverture. It longgid as principal house to the Archedeacon. This
lande descendid by heires general to the Corbetes of Shropshir and to Vaulx
of North Amptonshir. Vaulx part syns bought by Tregyon of Comewaule."
By this one may guess what a stately castle this formerly was. For in my
time, was only one tower of the castle standing; which was so large, that,
if the other seven were equal to it, the whole being must be of a prodigious
magnitude. But I fancy this was the body of the whole, for there is not
room enough about it for so great a pile ; so that I believe the eight towers
mentioned by Leland were only turrets, and appendixes to this principal
part I wish I had taken a draught of it in season (as I often intended) ;
for this too was pulled down in or about the year 1718, by Mr. Grant; who,
having obtained leave from the lord to do it, erected several houses with
the materials and turned it to a little town ; to which ships of about eighty
or one hundred tons come up, and supply the neighborhood with coal, tim-
ber, etc, as the barges do with sand. But, since the writing of this, I am
informed that six of the eight towers were standing within these thirty years :
of which that which I have mentioned was the biggest and loftiest, as being
at least fifty feet in height. Thus Tonkin."
Whitaker ascribes the site of this castle to the choice of the Romans,
who placed a fort there to command the lower ford of the Fal, having a high
precipice on each side, and a brook which joined the river, beneath it. The
trenches of the later fortress built here are still visible. — (Castles of England,
by Sir James D. McKemie,)
"The Castle of Tregoney must have been originally erected by the
earliest Romans and have been afterwards turned into a modern castle by
either the late Romans or their immediate successors, the Britons. It would
therefore be only repaired or rebuilt by Henry de Pomeraye.* He was son
of King Henry First's daughter and old enough to ask favors from King
Henry himself, for his town of Tregoney could never have been active
enough, if he could have been alive, to take up arms for King John against
King Richard and to erect and rebuild a castle at Tregoney in his favour.
Henry the First died in 1135 and Richard succeeded him after Henry the
Second and Stephen in 1189. The Tregoney Pomeroys ended in a female
branch under the reign of Elizabeth." — Polwhele.
*Like all other English authorities on the subject, up to the time of the pub-
lication of "The Victoria History" of the Counties of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset,
and Somerset, etc., and the "Visitations of the County Devon," Polwhele
makes the mistake of marrying Sir Ralph de Pomeroy's son Joscellnus or
William to King Henry's daughter Instead of his grandson Henry de Pomeroy,
as given In a supplemental leaf to the Pomeroy pamphlet, published In March,
1909, on the authority of the two publications cited In this note. It was
Henry, son of Joscellnus, who married Roheela, daughter of Henry I., and
their son Henry, who was of the fourth generation, who took up arms for
John« Those old English authorities, who wrote at random, have caused
great confusion.
2[rrmat0tt iHattor aitik QlaatU
(From "Castles of Eir^hndr by Sir James D, McKenzie,i
"On a hi.crli ciiiiiicncc over the river Lviiliar, which Hows into tht*
Hanioa/c near Saltash. stands the most entire of all the ancient castles of
Cornwall. Leland wrote: The .^reaiuit and auncient Castelle of Tremer-
toun is ii|>on a Rol<ky Ilille; whereof great peaces yet stond. and especially
the l-)iin\:von. The Ruincs now serve for a prison. Great Liberties long
to this Castelle. The X'alletortes were of great Possession, wer owners,
and as far as I can gather. Builders of this Castel.'
**P»ut its antiquity is probably superior to this, as the castle appears to
have beon erected soon after the conquest, on an ancient earthwork fortress
bclo!i;ring to the Saxon Earls of Cornwall. Here, at the time of the Domes-
''ay Surve>-, William, Earl of Mortain or Moreton and Cornwall, half-
nephew of the Conqueror, had the head of his great barony ; but on the con-
fiscation of his possessions the Crown retained Trematon. which is said to
have been bestowed afterwards on a native British prince. From him it
came b\ heiress to Reginald, a natural son of Henrv I., and bv their
dau;;:htcr Ursula to Walter de Dunstanville. Baron of Castlecombe. Corn-
wall, whose issue failing it passed in the reign of Richard I., by marriage
to Reginald de X'alletort. whose grandson again passed Trematon. by his
daughter Eglina (Johanna) to Sir Henry Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy,
Devon. His grandson made over the property to King Edward HI., in his
eleventh \ ear, and on the investment of the Black Prince as Duke of Corn-
m
wall, hi*^ honor and castle with the manor were granted to him and made part
of the Duchv of Cornwall, in which it still remains.
w
"The I'ortress, as we see it. consists of a large oval enclosure of stone
curtain wall, six feet in thickness and thirty feet high, with an embattled
parapet, encircliuiz an area of three-quarters of an acre. In the direction
of the longer axis of this enciente. in the northwest corner, is a lofty and
.steep artificial mound, on the top of which stands a fine Norman shell keep,
oval in form and over thirty feet high, the walls of which are ten feet thick,
with crenellated parapet, and measure twenty-four yards on the longest and
seventeen on the least diameter. The entrance is through a circular-headed
doorway at the top of the mound, which is surrounded by a ditch of its own.
The entrance to the Castle is on the southwest, under a square gate-house
having a gateway with three arches and a portcullis groove, with a guard-
room o\er, in a fair state of repair. Nothing remains of the lodgings and
buildings within the enclosure, nor of those within the keep, which were
built against the wall, as at Lincoln, without any exterior lights. On the
north is a postern, and other buildings stood thereabouts. A deep ditch
surrounds the whole fortress."
(Prom "The Ancient Castles of England and IValcs^ engraved by William
Woohvatcr.)
"The Dukes and Earls of Cornwall, before their almost regal power
became annexed to the English crown, possessed four principal residences
in this county, namely, the Castles of Tremeton, Launceston, Restormel
and Liskard. The first of these fortresses, although the time of its erection
and its builder are equally unknown, is yet supposed to have existed pre-
Smnrtuii (£asllr
Ancient Palace of the Cornish Kings, Erected previous to A, D. 95"^. Seiiled i
Sir Henry dc Pomerov hv Roger de Valletorta
ITrrgonf y (Caatlr
Said to have been built by Sir Henry dc Pomcroy
B7 Q^ra^ott^g and (Errmatim (HaiitltB
viously to the time of the Norman invasion, when William I. bestowed
the County of Cornwall upon his brother, Robert, Earl of Morton in Nor-
mandy, dispossessing Condor, Cadocus or Candorus, the last of the British
lords of it.
"Carew, in his very interesting survey of Cornwall, edited by Lord
de Dunstanville. states that in the chancel of St. Stephen's church, which
belonged to the castle, there was dug up a leaden coffin, which t)eing opened
showed the proportions of a very big man, that fell into dust immediately
it was touched. An inscription upon the lead stated that it was the body of
a Duke, whose heir was married to the Prince. Carew conjectures that it
was Ogerius, Duke of Cornwall, A. D. 959, because his daughter, Elfrida,
was married to Edgar, King of England; but Borlaise, in his Antiquities
of Cornwall, supposes that, as William of Malmsbury says, Ogerius was
buried at Tavistock Abbey, the body to have been that Cadocus, son of
Cadorus above mentioned, whose only daughter and heir, Agnes, was
married to Reginald Fitz-Henry, the natural son of King Henry I.
"In the Domesdav Survev the manor of Trematon is called Tremetone ;
the castle is mentioned, and the possessor was William, Earl of Cornwall
and Morton, the son of Robert. The Exeter Domesday also makes it
Tremetona, and states that Reginald de Valletort held both the county
and the castle for Earl Robert ; hence, Leland erroneously imagined in his
itinerary, that the Valletorts were the builders of the fortress. In the year
1104, the whole of the estates of William, Earl of Cornwall and Morton,
passed by attainder to the crown; and it is then supposed that Cadocus
was restored to the ancient possessions of his family, and resided and died
at Tremeton Castle.
"Reginald Fitz-Henry already mentioned, was the next Earl of Corn-
wall and from him the lordship of Trematon passed to his daughter and
co-heiress, Ursula, and upon failure of male issue it again became the
possession of Reginald de Valletort, who held fifty-nine knights' fees
appertaining to the honor of Trematon in the reign of Richard I. John
de Valletort to whom Trematon next reverted, had a son Reginald or Roger,
the last male heir of that family, who gave the honour and castle to Richard,
Elarl of Cornwall and King of the Romans. In 1305 Sir Henry de la
Pomeroy claimed a moiety of the manor of Trematon and of fifty-eight
knights' fees in Cornwall and Devon as coheir of Roger de Valletort; and
suit was renewed by his son, Henry, in 1315, and in 1338 Sir Henry
Pomeroy, Knight, released by a deed bearing date 15th February, the
honour and manor of Trematon to Edward the Black Prince, then Duke
of Cornwall, for an annuity of £40, payable to him and his heirs from the
Exchequer."
(From "History of Cornwall," by Rev. R. Pokwele, 1803.)
"Tremeton Castle occupies the summit of a high hill, at a small dis-
tance to the west of St. Stephens. The remains of this once formidable
structure are still very considerable, and when seen from the east have
an aspect of great boldness and grandeur. The view from the ramparts
commands a fine prospect of the Hamoaze dock. Mount Edgecumbe and
Maker Heights. A branch of the Lynnes creek flows near the foot of the
hilL
IfiiBtorti of tiff potnrrog JTamttti 9B
"It appears by Domesday that William, Earl of Moreton and Corn-
wall, had here his castle and market and resided here; but we are not
to suppose that this William or his father Robert were liie builders of all
the castles which they possest For when the Conqueror came in, Condorus,
the last Earl of Cornwall of British blood, descended from a long line of
ancestors, sometimes called kings, sometimes dukes, and earls of Cornwall,
was displaced and his lands as well as honors given to Robert, Earl of
Moreton ; and where the residence of those ancient earls of Cornwall was,
there surely he settled his court, as at Lanceston, Tintagel and Tremeton.
"Under Robert, Earl of Cornwall, it appears by the Exeter Domes-
day, that Reginald de Valletorta held the Castle of Tremeton, but the
inheritance came to William, Earl of Cornwall, from whom it passed by at-
tainder to the Crown with his other lands and dignities ; when, as some think.
Cadoc, son of Condorus, was restored to the earldom of Cornwall, and lived
and died at the Castle of Tremeton, leaving one only daughter and heir,
Agnes, married to Reginald Fitz-Henry, natural son to Henry I. From him
this lordship of Tremeton came with one of his daughters (Ursula) to Walter
Dunstanville, baron of Castlecombe in Cornwall, whose issue male failing,
it went with a daughter and heir (Hawise) to Reginald de Valletorta (temp.
Richard I.)f who had fifty-nine knights' fees belonging to the honour of
Tremeton.
"His son, John de Valletorta, had issue, Roger (by others called
Reginald), who having only two daughters, Eglina (Johanna) married
to Henry de Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy in Devon, and of Tregoney in
Cornwall, and Jane, married to Sir Alexander Okeston, knight, settled this
lordship of Trematon on Sir Henry Pomeroy, Knight, his grandson by his
eldest daughter, Eglina ; and this Sir Henry Pomeroy or a son of the same
name and title, as is more likely, by his deed bearing date the 11th of
Edward the Third, released to Edward the Black Prince (then created Duke
of Cornwall) his right and claim to the honour, castle and manor of
Tremeton. It then became as it was most anciently, a part of the Duchy
of Cornwall, and so it still continues. * * * *
"There was also a market, says Domesday, which the Earl had at his
Castle of Tremeton, and it was in existence originally, as the site of the
royal house was not altered at Tremeton, neither was the position of its
market changed. It was originally on the site of Saltash, a little distance
from the castle, outside of the park and upon the hill declining to the Tamar,
and took the name of Villa de Esse." (Also spelled Tremerton, Tremington,
Tamarton and Tumaton..)
(From "Other Famous Homes of Great Britain" G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
The town of Saltash, on the Tamar, one of the principal entrances to
Cornwall County, presents a poor appearance, the streets being narrow
and indifferently built. It is on the side of a steep hill, founded on a
solid rock, and the buildings are of the native stone. The inhabitants are
chiefly fishermen, or dock-men working at Plymouth.
Saltash was originally constituted a borough by the immediate ancestors
of Reginald de Valletort, who was lord of the manor of the honor of
Tumaton, within which the town is situated, in the reigns of King John
99 (SragottPQ and ^nvmtan CHaatlra
and Henrv III. The remains of the once formidable Castle of Tumaton.
which was erected before the Conquest, are on the summit of a lofty hill,
a mile to the west of Saltash, on the Lynher Creek, which falls into the
Tamar.
The Castle of Tumaton and its appendages were sold by the last heir
of the family of De Valletort to Richard. Earl of Cornwall, brother to Henrv
III., these estates being afterwards vested in the Crown, were by Edward
III., made part of the Duchy of Cornwall, to which Saltash is still attached.
Trematon Castle occupies the summit of a high hill, to the west of
St. Stephens. The remains of this once formidable structure are still very
considerable, and when seen from the east, have an aspect of great bold-
ness and grandeur.
From some points the tufted scenery which surrounds it. and the
encircling ivy, which envelopes its battlements, give it an air of picturesque
beautv. The area enclosed bv the outer walls, which are about six feet
thick, is nearly circular, and contains somewhat more than an acre of
ground. The walls are embattled and are in many parts still perfect, tho*
several massive fragments have fallen into the deep ditch which surrounds
the whole fortress, excepting at the gateway. This is in good preservation.
The entrance is under a square tower, supported by three strong arches,
between which are the grooves for the portcullisses. This leads into the
area.
At the northwest corner stands the keep, consisting of a conical mount,
considerably elevated, with a wall on its summit ten feet in thickness, and
rather more than three times as high. The space enclosed is of an oval
form, measuring: about seventeen bv twentv-four vards. This is now a
kitchen garden but was originally distributed into apartments, which must
have been wholly lighted from the top, as the wall of the keep does not con-
tain any windows. The entrance was by a round-arched doorway opening
towards the west. On the north was a sally-port, and probably some
buildings, the surface of the ground being in this part very uneven.
The view from the ramparts commands a fine prospect of the Hamoaze,
Dock. Mt. Edgcumb. and Maker Heights. A branch of the Lynher Creek
flows near the foot of the hill.
The castle was erected before the Conquest, and was the head of a
barony belonging to the ancient Dukes of Cornwall. The Conqueror
bestowed it upon his half-brother. Robert, Earl of Moreton and Cornwall,
on the attainder of whose son William, his successor, it reverted to the
Crown, and was afterwards, according to some authors, restored to Cadoc,
a British Prince, who was reinstated in the earldom of Cornwall. His
daughter and heiress conveyed it by marriage to Reginald Fitz-Henry,
natural son of Henry I., and their daughter to Walter de Dunstanvilfe,
whose male issue failing, it went by marriage to Reginald de Valletort,
and was afterwards, as mentioned in the account of Saltash, made part of
the Duchy of Cornwall.
iliiitorti of ttfe potnrrog JITamUg 100
Cdaatb of BmxA MitifrnVs Utintttt
"St. Michaers Mount is an isolated granite crag in the parish of St.
Hilary, 195 feet high and five furlongs in circumference, standing in Mount's
Bay, east of Penzance. In 1080 the honours of Alverton, Penzance,
passed from the Earls of Cornwall to the Pomerays. It is said to have been
cut ofif from the main land by a mighty inundation in 1099, an4 now is
joined to the shore only by a low causeway, 560 yards long of land, which
is covered by the tide sixteen of the twenty-four hours :
"Who knows not Micheers Mount and chair, the Pilgrim's holy vaunt;
Both land and island twice a day, fort and port of haunt?"
"The earliest record of the Mount is that of Diodorus, the Sicilian
historian, 50 B. C, who mentions it under the name of "Iktis," as the place
where the Phoenicians came to buy tin, and describes it as an island ad-
joining Britain, where at low tide the intervening space is left dry, over
which the miners carry the tin in carts.
"The first historical document referring to Saint Michael's Mount
is a charter of King Edward the Confessor, about 1053 A. D., wherein
he gives the Abbey of St. Michael's Mount for the use of the brethren
serving God in that place. After the conquest of England, Robert Earl of
Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror, was made Earl of Corn-
wall, and he made a fresh grant of the Mount to the Norman Abbey by
a charter. For 700 years the Mount had retained its purely ecclesiastical
character, but in 1194 it began a military career under the following
circumstances :
"While Richard I. was crusading in Palestine, Sir Henry de la
Pomeray (fourth generation in England), a man of large possessions in the
Counties of Devon and Cornwall, espoused the cause of his brother John,
Earl of Cornwall. When King Richard returned and learned of the con-
spiracy of Pomeray, he sent a sergeant-at-arms to his Castle of Berry
Pomeroy, who there received kind entertainment for certain days together,
and at his move to depart was gratified with a liberal purse. In counter-
change thereof, he then and no sooner, revealed his long concealed errand
and flatly arrested his host, to make his immediate appearance before the
King, to answer a capital crime, which unexpected and ill-carried message
the gentleman took in such despite that with his dagger he stabbed the
messenger to the heart.
"Then, despairing of pardon in so superlative an offense, he abandoned
his castle and got himself to the Island of Mount Saint Michael, and seized
and fortified the Castle. Here he bequeathed a large portion of his land to
the religious people dwelling there; and lastly that the remainder of his
estate might descend to his heirs, he caused himself to be let blood unto
death."- Worthies of England; by Thomas Fuller; title, "Memorable Per-
sons." 'J-
Concerning the episode of Saint Michael's Mount, another authority
says: "St. Michael's Mount was held by the Benedictine Monks until 1194,
when the country being in great confusion by the absence of King Richard
in Palestine, (bom 1157; crowned 1189; imprisoned 1192-1194 by Leo-
ini aiagtU of datttt MxtlfatVB Mauat
paldus, Duke of Austria; died 1199), Sir Henry de la Pomeroy, a Devon-
shire Baron, having been summoned to attend the King's court for some
conspiracy, killed the sergeant-at-arms and took refuge in the monastery;
but the monks being unable to screen him, he drove them all out, fortified
the rocks and sides, where he defended himself till the accession of John,
when making his peace with that monarch, he was forgiven and restored to
his paternal estates."
Another version of the incident is briefly stated in "Murray's Hand-
Book of Cornwall," page 194: "The military annals of the Mount (St.
Michael's) commence with King Richard's captivity, when Henry de la
Pomeroy gained possession of the place and reduced it to the service of
King John, who was aspiring to his brother's throne. Upon the return
of Uie King, however, the garrison surrendered, and according to tradi-
tion, Pomeroy caused himself to be bled to death, that his estates might
not be lost to his heirs should he be convicted of treason."
King Richard then put a garrison into "Pomeroy's Fort," as it was
called, and it continued to be regarded as a fortress and to be occupied
by a garrison for nearly 500 years. It was still, however, used as a mon-
astery as well as a fort. In 1290, Eldmund, Elarl of Cornwall, recites and
confirms certain grants of land and money made to the Mount by Richard,
Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans.
Since its first seizure, by Sir Henry de la Pomeray, the Fortress
of Mt. St. Michael has been at intervals connected with descendants or
kinsmen of that Baron. In 1470, after the battle of Bamet, John de Verc,*
Earl of Oxford, who had fought for Henry VL, fled to the Mount St.
Michael, and disguising themselves as pilgrims, he and his followers ob-
tained access to the Castle, when they overpowered the garrison and estab-
lished themselves in the stronghold. King Edward IV. ordered the Sheriflf
of Cornwall, Sir John Arundel of Trerice, to turn them out, but he was
repulsed and killed. De Vere surrendered February 15, 1471, on condition
that he and his adherents should be pardoned and granted their liberty
and estates. However, the King imprisoned him in the Castle of Hammes
in Normandy, where he remained for many years, until he managed to
escape. He then accompanied the Earl of Richmond (Henry VIL) to
England, and was slain at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
"In 1539, the government and revenues of the Mount were given by
King Henry VIIL, to Sir Humphrey Arundel of Lanherne. In the re-
bellion of 1549, however, Arundel put himself at the head of the insurgents.t
He was defeated by Lord Russell in front of Exeter, and executed in the
Tower of London.
"The Mount passed in 1628 to Robert, Earl of Salisbury, for £3114.
His son and successor, William, sold it to Francis Bassettt of Tehidig in
1640, by whom it was fortified and garrisoned in 1642 for King Charles I.
*Tliie Henry's son Henry married Alicia de Vere, an ancient kinswoman
of the Earl.
fSir Thomas de Pomeroy, sixteenth generation, was involved in this
insurrection with Sir Humphrey Arundel, and his estates were confiscated.
{A kinsman of John Coker, whose daughter, Eleanor, married Richard
Pomeroy, fifteenth generation.
yjBtorg of tiff gomgrog JFamttg 102
"In 1657 the Mount was sold by the Basset family to John St. Aubyn*
of Clowance, near Camborne, in Cornwall. This ends the military his-
tory of the Mount St. Michael, which has not been garrisoned since the
restoration. Since that time it has remained in the St. Aubyn family for
eight generations. On the main shore, facing the Mount, is a village con-
taining about eighty inhabitants." — "Other Famous Homes of Great Britain,"
by Hon. John St. Aubyn.
" * * The deer park existed long before the House and dates from
the reign of Henry VHL, when Sir Pierst Edgcumbe obtained a royal
license to empark it
"Lord Mount Edgcumbe traces his descent and derives his second
title from the Valletorts of Trematon Castle, who were lords of the manor
at the time of the Domesday Survey, and from whom the district around
Mount Edgcumbe still retains the general name of "The Tithing of
Valtershome."
"Sir Piers Edgatmbe, made Knight of the Bath by Henry VH., in
1489, by his marriage with Joan Dumford, acquired this estate, and his son,
Sir Richard, knighted 1537, built Mount Edgcumbe House in the first
year of Queen Mary, 1553." — "Famous Homes of Great Britain," by
Lady Ernestine Edgcumbe.
Anbr^ l» Br» - ipitttislfaiti (Siutb
(From the "Pofish Church of St. Andrews, Shalford/' England. By
Florence F. Law. The Vicarage, Shalford, i8p8.)
"Alberic (Aubrey) de Vere came over with the Conqueror, and was
rewarded with fourteen lordships in Essex and thirteen in other counties.
The lordship of Hedingham belonged in the Confessor's time to a great
Saxon noble named Ullunine, or Ulfwin, but on William, Duke of Nor-
mandy, conquering the country he gave the lordship to Alberic or Aubrey
de Vere, one of his generals, as a reward for his services in the overthrow
of Harold, and the establishing of the Norman power. This Alberic is
supposed to have taken his surname from Ver or Vere, a town in Zealand,
where his family had estates. His wife was Beatrix, a niece of William
I. Alberic de Vere undoubtedly sprung from a long line of brave and
worthy persons, and was an important man in his time.
"The genealogy of the De Veres, quoted by Leland, reaches Verus, so
named from his true dealing, and baptized Marcellus, A. D. 41, from
whose second son descended Miles de Vere, Duke of Angiers and Metz,
brother-in-law of Charlemagne. He married a daughter of Desiderius,
the deposed King of the Lombards, about 774 A. D.
*He was a descendant of the family of Sir John St. Aubyn, who married
Johanna Chudleigh, daughter of Sir James Chudlelgh of Ashton, and Johanna
Pomeroy, twelfth generation.
fSir Thomas Pomeroy de Berry Pomeroy, sixteenth generation, married
his daughter Jane.
"What can be said of but few others, his posterity flourished here after
the conquest for 630 years in great riches, honor and power. He was
ancestor of twenty Earls of the surname and family, 'a circumstance,' says
Morant, 'attending, as far as we can remember, no other British noble family
whatsoever/
"Besides the great office of Lord High Chamberlain, and the Earldom
of Oxford, hereditary dignities in the famil} some of the De Veres dis-
charged the offices of Portreeve of London, Chief Justice, Lord Chancellor,
Lord High Admiral, Lord High Steward, and Constable of England. The
family were noted for their piety, and for their immense ridies. They
founded and endowed the priories of Earls Colne, Castle Hedingham, and
Hatfield Broad Oak in this county, and others in Kent and Cambridgeshire.
"Alberic de Vere, the first of the name in England, took the habit
of a monk, and was buried at Earls Colne. His eldest son, Alberic, was in
favor of Henry L, who made him Great Chamberlain of England and
Chief Justice. In 1 140 he was sheriff for Essex and several other counties,
and was killed that year in a rabble in London. Alberic de Vere, the third
of the name, was so considerable a person, that Queen Maud gave him the
office of Chamberlain, with additional Knights' fees and other honors.
She also granted him the tower and castle of Colchester, and gave him his
choice of earldoms of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, or Dorsetshire.
Henry H. confirmed all these grants to Alberic, and constituted him Earl
of Oxford. This Alberic, First Earl of Oxford, died in 1194. A fourth
Alberic de Vere became second Earl of Oxford, and was succeeded in
1214 by Robert de Vere, Third Earl of Oxford, who was brother to the
second and therefore son of the first Earl. He was one of the twenty-five
Barons to enforce the Magna Charta. His daughter, Alicia de Vere,
married Henry de la Pomerai, who had livery of his lands in Devon and
Cornwall 6 Richard L, as son of Henry de Pomeroy and Matilda de Vitrie,
and whose son Henry was Governor of Exeter Castle, 12 to 16 John, and
High Sheriff of Devon, 6 Henry HL
"Hugh de Vere, the Fourth Earl, son of Robert, founded a hospital
outside the castle gate. The chroniclers of the time say that while this
Earl was fighting in the crusades in the Holy Land, a star fell from
heaven on his shield, or on his lance's point, and a mullet or five-pointed
star was ever after emblazoned on the De Vere arms. Robert De Vere,
sumamed The Good, sixth Earl, and grandson of Hugh, succeeded his
father in 1295, and was himself succeeded in 1331 by John de Vere, seventh
Earl ; and, as showing the immense riches of this family, we give an abstract
of the Inquest taken at his death. This lord had to the amount of fifty
knights' fees in Essex, eighteen in Suffolk, nineteen in Cambridgeshire, and
seven in Huntingdonshire. Each of these was then valued at 100 shillings,
and considering the difference between the value of money then and now,
we can judge of their great wealth. They had at one time seventy knights'
fees in Essex alone, besides their personal estate. Their ornaments por-
trayed on the tombs of Hedingham and Colne show their extraordinary
splendor. Thomas de Vere, son of John, the eighth Earl, died vested of
the estate of Castle Hedingham in 1370."
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(The account continues on through each earl to 1702, when the title
expired with the twentieth earl.)
(Eotttiitim Qlaatb
Conipton Castle, Marldon, so closely concerned with the history and
fall of Berry Pomeroy, was situate about three miles distant, and five miles
from Torquay. It was once a strongly fortified dwelling, but recently
occupied as a farm house. It has been the home of many illustrious per-
sonages, and within its walls have many a festal scene been witnessed.
William the Conqueror bestowed the manor on the Norman knight Judhael
de Totneis, and in the reign of Henry II., it belonged to Maurice de la Pole,
after having passed through the possession of the Tracy and Braose families,
and later that of Geoffrey de Camville, whose daughter Alicia married
Henry de Pomeroy, ninth in descent from Sir Ralph. Afterwards seven
successive generations of the Comptons occupied it. Subsequently it
passed into the hands of the Gilberts, whose family has earned renown
by the discovery and colonization of Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey
Pomeroy Gilbert, of whom Sir Walter Raleigh was a half-brother. Both
these distinguished individuals resided here at one time, and doubtless
walked and talked of their enterprises in the old garden in the rear. The
chapel, with the priest's room over, still remains in a fair state of preser-
vation. The whole fortress, as has been stated, was strongly fortified,
and there was a subterranean passage by which the garrison in time of need
could make their escape.
Concerning the colonization of Newfoundland, the following letter
was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to his step-brother, Sir Humphrey Pomeroy
Gilbert, on the eve of his departure from Plymouth, England, his fleet of
five small vessels being assembled at Cawsand Bay, to colonize New-
Foundland, in 1538:
"Brother: — I have sent you a token from Her Majesty, an anchor
guided by a lady, as you see. And further, Her Highness willed me to
send you word that she wisheth you a great good hap and safety to your
ships as if she was there in person, desiring you to have a care of yourself,
as of that which she tendereth ; and, therefore, for her sake you must pro-
vide for it accordingly. Furthermore, she commandeth that you leave your
picture with her. For the rest I leave till our meeting, or to the report
of the bearer, who would needs be the messenger of this good news. So
I commit you to the will and protection of God, who sends us such life
and death as He shall please, or hath appointed.
"Richmond, this Friday morning.
"Your true brother,
"W. Raleigh."
The original of this letter was a few years since in the possession
of Mr. Pomeroy Gilbert, Fort-major of Dartmouth, a descendant of the
Admiral. At the present time the Annalist cannot resolve this combination
of names, although it is possible that it comes about by the marriage of
Agnes Pomeroy, daughter of Sir Henry Pomeroy and Alice Raleigh,
about 1496, to Humphrey Gilbert. Again there was an intermarriage be-
fore 1602 between Grace Pomeroy and John Gilbert, and on February 24,
firHiughain Caatir
Scat of Roben de \"cre
Camptait <Caatlr
Subterranean passage to Berry Pomeroy Castle
105 UbiniUiitt (Euetlt attd l|a&lioti l|aU
1679-80, Joan Pomeroy, daughter of Roger Pomeroy and Joan Wills, mar-
ried Humphrey Gilbert of Compton, which would account for the ancestry
of Major Pomeroy Gilbert. In this connection the illustration of Compton
Castle, the Devonshire home of the Guilberts, will prove interesting, espec-
ially as it was connected with the Castle of Berry Pomeroy by means of a
long and deep tunnel, which perhaps was one of the causes which led to
the capture of the Pomeroy stronghold.
HUtrtfUiqi (EmU^
Nichols, Topographist and Genealogist, says: "Francis Drew, the
second of that name in the Irish line, and the son of John and Margaret
Drew, suffered great losses during the war previous to the revolution. His
place at Kilwiny, county of Waterford, was laid waste by King James'
army and the house burnt. He served at the battle of Angheim and at the
sieges of Athone, Galway and Limerick in King William's army. He
was a devoted Protestant and his remains were interred under his own seat
in the church of the Castle in Ireland.
"His wife was Rebecca Pomeroy, a descendant of Henry de la Pomeroy
of Bery Pomeroy, who married a daughter of King Henry I., sister of
Reginald, Earl of Cornwall. Rebecca (Pomeroy) Drew outlived her husband
many years, and with wonderful resolution protected herself at MocoUop
Castle though surrotmded by Irish enemies. She could use guns and pistols
as dexterously as anybody and always kept them loaded in her bedroom.
Her powder-horn was extant a few years ago. She told James, the second
Lord Chancellor, in his own court, that if she had him at MocoUop Castle
she would have him coursed like a rabbit She was a daughter of Samuel
Pomeroy of Berie Pomeroy, in Devonshire, near Totnes." — (From Burke's
"Dictionary of Landed Gentry")
"The Irish branch (of the Drewe family) resident for so many genera-
tions at MocoUop Castle, county Waterford, descends through the heiress
of Pomeroy, from King Henry I."
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Haddon Hall, the home of the Peverells, the Avenells, and finally
carried by daughters to Sir Richard de Vernon and Allen Basset, with a
moiety of the manor held by Matilda de Camville, (Warine or William
de Vernon being the father of Richard), is situated in the parish of Bake-
well, Derbyshire. This appears from the survey of Derbyshire contained
in the Domesday Book, after William had extended his sovereign author-
ity over the whole kingdom, and was one of the royal manors, held by King
Edward (the Confessor). The manor of Bakewell was given by William
I., to his natural son, William Peverell, on whom he had previously be-
stowed very extensive domains, between 1081 and 1087. The individual
who, through the bounty of his father thus became one of the great barons
and chief landed proprietors of the country, living at a time when surnames
were becoming common among the Normans, adopted that of the family
into which after his birth his mother had married. His mother was Maud,
daughter of Ingelric, (founder of the Collegiate Church of St. Martins le
Grand, in the City of London). William Peverell also had the Castle of
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Nottingham, then newly built and situated most advantageously for defense
gfiven him. His son, William Peverell, however, lost the Castle of Notting-
ham to the Empress Maud, daughter of King Henry I., and the manor
of Nether Haddon passed to the Avenell family, and eventually, says
Pilkington, "in the reign of Richard I., Haddon came into the possession of
Richard Vernon, who married Avicia, daughter and coheiress with her
sister Helizabeth, who married Basset (Allan or Simon). The family of
Vernon seems to have claimed descent from the sovereigns who presided
over the Eastern Empire. This at least must be inferred from the following
note, prefixed to a pedigree preserved in the British Museum: "Some
think the Vemons both of England and France, descended of the Emperors
of Constantinople, and of Justiniani of Venice." (Harl. MSS. No. 1233, f.
105, b.). The designation of Vernon is derived from the lordship and
castle of that name in Normandy.
Galterus de Vernon (per litteras de Redonis) held one Knight's fee
in the Bailiwick of Vernon under the Crown, and was therefore liable to
be called upon for military service, at his own cost, during forty days,
whenever the King of England, who was also Duke of Normandy, assembled
an army. Therefore, when William the Norman invaded England he was
attended by a Knight of the Vernon family as one of his own retainers.
We find on the tablet in the old church at Dives the names of Gautier,
Huard and Richard de Vernon as companions of William. The Vemons
thus acquired the manor of Shilbrooks or Shipbrook in Cheshire, which
became the principal seat of the family. Matilda, wife of Richard de Vernon,
was daughter and coheir of William de Camville. The boar's head, the
crest of the Vernon's is alluded to in the verse :
"A grisley boar; as raven's feathers black.
Bred In that land Rollo had by his wife.
Past th' ocean, the Bastard's part to take
Who Harrold reft of kingdom and of life;
His ofEttpringe since, ranging the Peakish hills.
On craggy cliff a warlyke seat did finde;
Match t with a Vernoyle, who welded their wills:
IfimonvJi (Soat-of-AntiB atdk Cdrrata
The sole value or interest of American coats-of-arms consists in the
remembrance or traditions of an honorable ancestry. Coats-of-arms
were frequently used in New England during the Colonial period, and it
is more than probable that they were used in the rest of the original thirteen
colonies. These arms are worthy of preservation since they are valuable
evidence for the genealogist. At the date when they were used the English
rules were in force here. The time since the settlement of the country
was not so long as to forbid the acceptance of tradition as evidence, we may
believe that those who displayed armorial insignia had good grounds for
their adoption.
Among other conditions, the Committee on Heraldry of the New Eng-
land Hiiitoric Genealogical Society has advanced the opinion that "certain
of the inhabitants, prior to the Revolution, were entitled to bear coats-of-
arms who could prove descent in the male line from an ancestor to whom
arms were granted or confirmed by the Heralds."
lOr Ij^amfra^ (Soat-of-Amtfi and (tlrtstB
Ten or twelve plates of the arms of different branches of the
Pomeroy family may be found in "Fairbaime's Book of Family Crests.**
The coat armor of some of the ancient branches are described here:
Pomeraie, (Berrie Pomerie), county Devon, temp. Henry I. or, a lion
ramp, guarded, gu. armed and languid, az. within a bordeur sa., indented sa.
Pomeroy, Chalfent (St. Giles, county Bucks), or a lion ramp. sa.
within a bordeur, indented, guarded. Crest, a fir cone vert, charged with
a bez.
Pomeroy (Berry Pomeroy, county Devon), or a lion ramp, guarded,
within a bordeur, partition sa.
Pomeroy (Devonshire and Worcestershire), or a lion ramp, gu., within
a bordeur, engr. sa.
Ponieroy (Ireland), or a lion ramp, guarded, holding in the dexter
paw an apple, within a bordeur, engr., sa. Crest, a lion ramp, gu., hold-
ing an apple as in the arms.
Pomeroy (Chequy), gu. and or on a chev., sa. three amul. or. Crest,
a lion head erased, charged with four bez., crowned with a ducal coronet :
ppr.
Pomeroy (St. Columb, counties Cornwall and Devon), or a lion ramp,
within a bordeur eng. gu., crescent for dif. Crest out of a ducal crescent,
or a lion's head guarded, gu.
Pomeroy (Weguy, county Cornwall), or a lion ramp., gu. within a
bordeur engr. sa. Crest, a lion segant, gu., holding in dexter paw an
apple, or.
Pomeroy, or a lion ramp., g. within a bordeur, engr. sa.
Pomeroy, (Iri), a lion ramp, gu., holding an apple.
Pomeroy, (Iri), a demi-lion, vert.
Pomeroy of Epping, a fir-cone erect ppr., charged with a fret or, be-
tween two fir-sprigs, also ppr.
Pomeroy, (Berry Pomeroy, county Devon, temp. Edward IV.), or, a
lion ramp, within a bordeur, engrailed, gu. Crest, a lion se., or, holding
in the dexter fore-paw an apple, vert.
Pomeroy, (County Devon), or a lion ramp., gu., in Dexter paw an apple
proper, leaved and stock, vert, within a bordeur engrailed, sa. Crest, his
lion as before, on a wreath of his colors, or and gu.
Pomeroy, (Viscount Harberton, Ireland), or a lion ramp, guarded,
holding in the dexter paw an apple ppr. within a border sa. Crest, a lion
ramp, guarded, holding an apple in the arms, sup. by two wolves, the
dexter ppr., sinister sa., both guarded and chained, or.
It is perhaps as the Westminster Review (Vol. 60, p. 45,) asserts:
"The glory of ancestors casts a light indeed upon their posterity, but it
only seems to show what the descendants are. It alike exhibits to full view
any degeneracy and any worth. It is therefore a most desirable custom to
preserve a line of ancestry, tracing perhaps, back to the old feudal times ;
for if any one feels a pride in the reflection that he is descended from
ancient worthies, it may prove some incentive to him to maintain the credit
of the name, and to achieve a reputation deserving of it."
IfiBtorg of ttfi Ij^omtro^ 3Faitiilg lOB
Paignton, England, Aug. 25, 1911.
It is improper to add to Achievement the arms of collateral ancestors
except those of the maternal families of the women who married Pomeroys.
The proposition is long enough with all those wives* arms. Heraldic usage
does not permit a man to show arms of any collateral ancestor if he has arms
of his own. Only arms of his direct paternal and direct maternal ancestors
in each generation of his own surname pedigree.
Your letter says: "Visit the College of Arms and get date and
authoritv when arms were granted to Sir Edward Pomeroy, Sheriff of
Devon 10 Henry VI. (1432)," In reply to this I must say: This date
is fifty years before the founding of the College of Arms. It is also eighty
years before the first heraldic visitation. Also, the Pomeroy arms are
certainly much older than 1432, hence not granted by that institution to
ihe said Sir Edward Pomeroy, but gfiven by King or previously assumed
by right of military honors (perhaps temp, of one of the crusades) at
least 200 years earlier than 1432. The said Sir Edward probably had
some official record made as confirming to himself the arms he inherited;
but the College of Arms has no record thereof now. In fact the College of
Arms has sold the most of its old manuscripts to the British Museum and
to other institutions. No question can arise as to the Pomeroys having
had theii well-known coat-of-arms long before the Sir Edward Pomeroy of
1432. The only thing left for any American Society to consider is your evi-
dence of the descent of the American Pomeroys from any one of the Pomeroys
of Devon who bore the arms; and practically all of the Pomeroys of the
14th, 15th, 16th and 17th centuries undoubtedly had a right to use the arms
because of the far greater antiquity of the arms. That is to say, the arms
go back so far as to get behind practically all of the several known branches
of the family. I doubt that any family in England bore arms before the
Pomeroys did.
The photograph I enlarged and corrected from the manuscript in the
British Museum at your order constitutes all the proof that can be reason-
ably demanded by any society as to the Pomeroy arms; and I doubt not
that you will assure any society that Eltweed Pomeroy descended from
Sir Edward.
Vivian's Visitation of Devon also guarantees sufficiently the authen-
ticity of the bearing of the Pomeroys; and there are many books that refer
to these srms ; which really places the matter of arms entirely above question.
There is no ancient motto to the Pomeroy arms.
(Signed), C. A. Hoppin.
With reference to the question: "How is a right to bear arms
acquired in England?" a writer in Notes and Queries; London; Fifth
Series ; XI, 271, says : "The author of the Notitia Anglicana, after referring
to the special prohibition of Henry V. to take or assume arms without
license from him, or the proper officers appointed to grant the same, unless
they had a right from their ancestors," thus proceeds: "Here a right
from ancestors is allowed, without questioning the means by which they
gained them. That is, should a person, upon any challenge of his right,
make it appear that those arms challenged had been quietly enjoyed and used
upon proper occasion by his ancestors, from time out of mind (though
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no regular entrance of the same appear), which time is generally com-
puted at four score or an hundred years, hence their uninterrupted using
the same shall be adjudged a right equal to any regular concession or
grant Tn accordance with this should there not be less hesitation in accept-
ing with complacency, the prescriptive use of arms in this country?" — From
Family Memorials; by Prof. E, E. Salisbury.
Wife Ifimmtos Arlfirfmtintt
Perhaps the most appropriate way of presenting the Achievement of
the ancestors of Eltweed Pomeroy in England will be through the note of
Prof. C. A. Hoppin, the artist, which accompanied the painting from
London. Mr. Hoppin writes:
"Dear Col. Pomerov : —
"You have favored me with instructions to mar-
shal the heraldic achievement of the direct ancestors of
Eltweed Pomeroy, the founder of the Pomeroy family
of America. Following the pedigree which you have
supplied me for this purpose, I find that nearly all of
the ladies to whom the direct Pomeroy ancestors of
the said emigrant were married, were of heraldic fam-
ilies. I have verified the coats-of-arms of all of these
martial alliances by the best heraldic authorities, which
all agree, substantially, upon the following descriptions
of the shields: I have arranged these arms in chron-
ological order, from left to right, beginning at the top
of the shield."
Or, a lion rampant, gules within a bordure engrailed
sable. Crest, a lion sejant, or, holding in the dexter
paw an apple, vert.*
Or, two ravens in pale, proper, in the chief a label of
three points azure.
Quarterly gules and or. in the first quarter a mullet,
argent.
Bendy of six, argent and gules ; a bordure sable, bezanty.
Or, a fesse, azure.
Vert, three lions passant, argent, armed and langued,
gules.
Argent, two bars gules; in the chief three torteaux.
POMEROY :
CORBETT :
DE VERE
V ALLETORT :
DE VERNON:
DE CAMVILLE:
DE MOLIS
(Mules) :
BEVILLE:
RALEIGH :
Argent, a bull passant gules, armed and tripped or.
Gules, a bend lozengy argent.
^There is no ancient motto to the Pomeroy Arms. — Prof. C. A. Hoppin, Lon-
don, England.
A limited number of copies of Pomeroy Arms and the Achievement,
printed in colors on heavy coated stock, 10x12, for framing, can be obtained,
92.00 each, by addressing the Secretary, A. A. Pomeroy, Sandusky, Ohio. These
prints are as handsome and more perfect than paintings for which you would
be charged 925.00 and 950.00, respectively.
IfiBtorg of tift 9oinrrog 3FamUQ UO
KELLOWAY; Argent, five grosing irons in saltier sable, between
four Kelway pears proper, within a bordure engrailed of
the second.
COKER: Argent, on a bend gules, three leopards* faces, or.
HUCKMORE: Per chevron sable and or; in the chief two pairs of
reaping hooks, endorsed and entwined, blades azure,
handles or, in base a moor cock sable combed and wat-
tled gules.
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Az — Blue.
Bordeur — Mark of difference to distinguish one branch of a family from
another.
Bez or Bezant — Flat pieces of gold without impress.
Chequy — Divided.
Charged — Bearing Device.
Dexter — Right.
Bngr — ^Une of Partition.
Erased— Severed from the body.
Ou or Oules — Parallel lines on shield; red.
Guarded — Both eyes and ears in view.
Indented — Reversed — Changed in order.
Or — Gold.
Ppr — 'Party per — Divided into two equal parts.
Rampant— ^Standing upright — Attacking.
Langued — One ear in view.
6a — ^Black.
Sal. or Sally — Posture of springing.
Segant — Sitting.
Sinister — ^Left.
Vert — Oreen; parallel lines sloping to the right downward.
inmtittnmt of l$rtBttmiQ Famtlg fo roriiB
**The ivorld is too much with us late and soon.
Let us linger with our ancestors.
Who in ancient days were men of high renown**
HILE traditions are venerated legends or sagas, the most
positive sources of family evidence are registers contem-
poraneous with the events which they commemorate, such
as records written by a father in relation to his children,
or by a constituted clerk of church or state. England
has the best system in the world for acquiring vital sta-
tistics, and the best facilities for preserving them. It was
such evidence that your Annalist found while on his recent
visit to England for the purpose of investigating the parish records of
Counties Devon, IX)rset, Somerset and Cornwall.
It is many years since the Gentleman's Magazine published an article
on genealogy which, among other self-evident facts, said: "Every one
really comes of as old a family as every one else. Every living eldest
son is the heir male of either the senior or a junior branch, not only of
the family who first bore his name, but of progenitors hidden still deeper
in the mists of antiquity. We so frequently hear of old families dying
out altogether or ending in feminine lines under other names, that we come
to think such a fate is the eventual end of all families ; but this is far from
being the case. Every man living could, if he only knew where to find
the dates, align himself, from father to son and from son to father, from
father to grandfather, from generation to generation, until he came to
Adam himself."
It has been said that nature makes no mistakes, but as concerns the
genealogies of families there is a difference. The Grand Master of the
Third \'eil, the keeper of the records, says: ''You must be more careful
in tracing your genealogy. Who are you?'* There is great difference
between careful families and families of all other kinds. The thought-
ful members of a careful family can tell who their forefathers were. Where
they lived, whom they married; while those who belong to no family
in particular are classed in a body as men who don't know their own
grandfathers. From a genealogical viewpoint, the stability or goodness
of a family depends much more on the number of its known generations
than on any other condition. Given two families in which the numbers of
recorded generations are equal, doubtless the families whose members have
been the more illustrious would be reckoned the better of the two; but a
family of only two or three generations, however illustrious some of their
members might have been, would certainly not constitute what is known
as a good family, but would be resolved into individual merit only. As
in the case of many popular ideas, there is some little substratum of reason
in this assertion.
drttpaUigg of tint Ij^aimta^ 3FamilQ 1 14
If to be educated and cultivated is an object of ambition, and if there
is anything in the doctrine of heredity, it may be supposed that the mem-
bers of a family which has been of importance enough to leave their names
scattered along the banks of the River of Time have had a brighter chance of
being polished and of handing down their good qualities to their posterity than
those whose names were swept away by the annual freshet to which that
river is subjected, without leaving any foliage.
It is not much to be wondered at that there is such a mistiness in
America relative to the ancestors of any particular person. There is not
now and never has been any authorized national receptacle for the preserva-
tion of such vital statistics, the chief reliance is therefore necessarily placed
in church and town registers, w^hich are at all times subject to the depre-
dations of fires, flood and removal. Indeed, under such inadequate con-
ditions, it is remarkable that those records which one can consult in
various libraries, have been preserved. It is not considered incumbent
upon a member of a family to be able to tell off hand the Christian name of
his great-grandmothers though they stand at the threshold of a pedigree,
unless recorded in the family Bible or otherwise committed to writing.
People of the present day are anxious that they themselves shall not so
soon be forgotten, but when opportunity like the present one offers, many
of them take no measures to preserve the memory of their forefathers
and mothers. Such feeling and action, however, is the root of high am-
bition, the difference being only in the degree, between writing one's
name on a page of the history of one's country and carving one's initials
on the smooth bark of a beech tree by the brook side, or scratching them
on the walls of some famous old-world castle. While some of us do not
mind being lost for a week (more or less) at a time, yet we can feel
hearty svmpathy with Rip Van Winkle when he returns from his mountain
sleep and is unknown in his own village.
There is no hesitation in saying that the experience of the compiler
of a family genealogy teaches that sons are not so desirous of perpetuating
their father's memory, or of handing down to future ages their grand-
father's name, and take no steps to that end. The consequence is that
comparatively few families know whence they come or anything definite
about their antecedents. Many today decline to apply themselves to the
important duty of preserving such records for their posterity. Of the
miportance of keeping a record of the several members of a family, it
is needless to speak. In genealogy there are three prime events: the Birth,
the Marriage, the Death. Surely each head of family must consider it
not the least of his duties to keep a register of these events, and be willing
to impart them at the proper time to the recognized historian of the family
of which he is a member. No one should consider that he is in too humble
a station to make his individual records of importance to his children
or to the one engaged in the genealogical study. As good fortune is th^
companion of virtue, its wheel has many surprising turns, and often
carries those round with it who least expect to be raised from their
station beneath it. To the members of a family who have attained to
eminence, the permanent record of the three events mentioned is of equal
importance, for many wholesome facts concerning their families might con-
(intralogg of % Pomerog JfamUg IIB
the mother of the long line of descendants presented in this family genealogy.
"The Rook of the Axe" is the source of many of the items quoted here.
Crewkerne was by far the most valuable of the comital manors of Somerset,
and vet it had been held bv Eddeva. a ladv whose identitv is not disclosed.
» • » •
In summing up the compiler's claims the manor of Crewkerne had been
held by King Harold, and he had given it to Eddeva (Edith the Fair),
who was in no sense a daughter of Godwin, but perhaps the sweetheart
of Harold, as it was to her that his body was delivered (by Robert Mallett* )
after he had been slain on the stricken field of Hastings. Robert Mallett
appeals to the Pomeroy interest through the Coker pedigree presented
on another page.
It is probable that there was a settlement where Crewkerne now stands
in the time of the British forefathers, and throughout the time of the Roman
occupation. Both British and Roman weapons and ornaments have been
found in the neighborhood, but the first mention of the place occurs in
King Alfred's will, when the land of Croeurn with that of many other
towns were bequeathed by that great King to his younger son Ethel wartl.
Under the name of Cruche it is referred to in Domesday Book as a royal
possession. Subsequently the manor passed to the Courtenay family. Xo
doubt Crewkerne had its share of stirring episodes in the times of the
Plantagcnets and Tudors.
The Countv of Somerset is famous for its churches, and that of
Crewkerne in which Eltweed Pomerov and Marv Rockett were married
as presented in the engraving, is certainly one of the most attractive, and
its present Curate, the Rev. Henry Durbin Lewis, a congenial and accom-
modating \'icar. The church was probably constructed during the reign
of Henry V'lL, 1485-1509. Like most of the more imposing churches of
the county, it belongs to the last of the great schools of architecture, the
**perpendicular," though there are distinct traces in the naves and windows
of the earlier ''decorated" stvle. The tracerv of the windows is verv rich.
and there is some very good modern stained glass, although there are some
fragments of the ancient glass remaining in one of the north windows.
There are several buttressed niches in which historic figures are resting.
The tower, which rises to the height of eighty feet, is equipped with eight
bells. It bears the name made infamous in France. "St. Barthohnew."
To the descendants of the Company which landed on the site of
Dorchester from the ship Mary and John, Capt. Squebb» Rev. Coker's
"Particular Survey of the Countie Dorset," is of special interest as one finds
descriptions pertaining to many of the villages and cities after which so
manv of the Massachusetts earlv settlements were named.
"Two miles north-east of Pillesdon is Windsor, which King Henry the
Second gave unto (Jervais, named from the place, de Windsor, who held
it bv Grand Siriante, as our lawvers terme it. From this Gervais flourished
Knights of Great Repute, who lived there and were Lords of the Hundred
(for so then was it) of Broad Windsor, though now united to Beamister/*
•"Robert Mallet was certainly at the battle of Ha.stings»l for we find by
bistory that it was to him that William the Conqueror entrusted the body of
Harold. He was High Chamberlain of England, and as appears by Domesday,
possessed a most extensive property in different counties." — Polwhele.
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"Scarce two miles eastward the River Bert, or Birt, falleth into the
Sea, which running downe from Axknoll by mee remembred already,
cometh first to Beamister, a pretty Market Towne, that gives name to the
Hundred wherein it stands, which, sithence the Incorporation of Bertport.
hath been chosen by the Justices of Peace to keep their Quarter Sessions in.
"Beamister with the Hamlets, in King William the Firsts Time, be-
longed to the Church of Sarum ; but in these Times the Horskins, Gentlemen
that dwell not farre from the towne, have enjoyed the Fee Farme of it for
some Descents.*'
"Somewhat East of Beamister stands Maperton, (Mapowder) where
the Morgans, Men of verie antient Gentrie in Devonshire, have longe lived,
unto whom it came, in Henry the Firsts Time, by Mande, Daughter and
Heire of John Brett of that Place, whose Ancestours had for many Descents
enjoyed it." Not far from Beamister, the River Bert passeth under Parn-
ham, finely seated within a Parke.
"Upon the east side of Bertport, and not much below it, joins with
Bert two Brookes in one Streame, upon the verie meeting of which standes
Bradpole. in King Johns Time the Seat of John de Morevile (of great
note) descended, as it should seem by his Amies, from the Barons de
Morevile, famous at those times in Cumberland, who held it, with the
Hundreds of Beamister and Redhove appertaineing to it, by Sergeantie."
"Coker's Dorset" assumes that the Countv Dorset took its name from
the ancient inhabitants, whom the Britains called Dwr Gwyr, and the
"Latine Translatours of Ptolomie Durotrigues; which name is very aptlie
derived from the Scituation of the Place, for that Dwr or Dour, in the
British Tongue, betokens Water, and Trig, to inhabite or dwell : what then
is Durotridges more than the inhabiteing or bordering on the Sea Coasts;
But when the Saxons became Lords of these Partes, thev altered the Name
into Dorsettan, but not the Signification of it ; for Settan being an Addition
of their Own Language, imports as much as to be seated, inhabited or
dwelt upon, all one with the former; and from this later Xame Dorsettan,
this Countie took the Xame of Dorsettanshire, which is now contracted
into Dorsetshire.
"Vaine therefore in my Conceit are their Opinions, who beleeve that
it took Xame from Dorchester, the now Principall Towne; as that did
from one King Dorn, or Dor, whom they in their Fantasies have made to
bee the first Founder of it: but Historians never mentioned anv such Man;
and if he bee yet borne, which I much doubt, and not without just cause,
his Fortune was very ill, that, haveing been the Builder of a Towne, soe
ancient and soe well knovven both to the Romans and Saxons, himselfc
should bee wholely buried in Oblivion.'*
"Dorchester is a Towne of great Antiquitie, which Antonin in his
Itinerarium calleth Durnovaria. Well known it was in the Romans Time,
who are thought to have had a Summer Station or Campion, that Fort
wee call Mayden Castell, and on whose Cause waye, called the Fossway,
this Towne standeth, which thence runneth directlie South to Weymouth:
Moreover the great Quantitie of Romans Coines dayelie founde there, both
of Golde, Silver and Brasse, seeme (if there wanted other proofe) to
affirm soe much. The Saxons, who succeeded the Romans, called it Dor-
dttwnlass af % Ifiamtra^ VumXl^ ISO
Chester, compounding the Name of the British Worde Dome, which sig-
nifieth water, and Chester, a Citie; for soe certainly it was, and of large
Circuit as the Walles (whose mines in some places yet appeare) will
testifier But the Danes long since threwe them to the grounde, who, under
their Leader Sweno, harried all these Partes ; and for memorie of their Siege,
Maundbury and Poundbury, two trenched Fortes adjoineing to the Towne,
remaine till this Dave.
"Adjoineing to the East End of Dorchester is Fordington, a large
Manour of the Princes, as is this Dutchie of Cornwall. As the River
Frome passeth on by Dorchester and Fordington, it giveth Name to some
little Parishes seated upon it, amongst which are Frome Whitefield, a Moiety
whereof, from the Daughter and Coheire of Sir William de Whitfield
(Whidfield). descended (by Boys, Brett. Bassett, Muskett and Veale)
hereditarilie to John Coker, Ancestour to the nowe Owner of it, (and father
of Eleanor Coker. who married Richard Pomeroy), *' (Arms,
on a Chevron G. between three bunting horns S. 3 Croslets fitche A.)
"Somewhat below Wotton on the Brooke stands Hollwell. a part of
Somerset, yet wholly environed with Dorset, where stood the principall
Lodge of the Forrest of Blackmore, which William le Brett and his suc-
cessours helde by Service to bee the King's Forrester of Blackmore But
the issue of them failed in Ralph, whose onlie sister Joan was married to
Robert Bassett (see Coker pedigree) and the office is long sithence lost by
disaforesting the Forrest. But the manor of Hollwell, Reginald, Earl of
Cornwall, natural sonne to King Henry the First, gave unto William dc
Brickley and his posteritie after unto the Abbie of Abbotsbury upon the
suppression of which it was purchased by Sir Giles Strangwayes, who
passed it awaye to Humphrey Watkins, grandfather of Mary la Hastings,
late wife of James Hannam."
In the ancient and walled city of Exeter are stored many records of
the County Devon, which occupied four days with negative results as
far as material of importance to the American Pomeroy s is concerned.
There was evidence that in earlier days Pomeroy men were of official and
honorable rank in this fine old city, pleasantly seated upon a hill among
hills, dominating the country round about. It has five gates and many
turrets, and Rougemont Castle for protection. In the time of King John,
12-16, Sir Henry de Pomeroy was governor of Castle Rougemont. In the
time of King Edward VI., 1549-1550. Sir Thomas Pomeroy led an army
of 20,000 insurrectionists against the city.
Samuel Izacke, Esq., in his "Memory of Exeter," writes: **From the
Tenth day of June (being the Monday in Whitson-week) to the Sixth Day
of August then next following, by the insurrection of the Commons of
Cornwall and Devon, this City was strictly besieged for five and thirty
Days space without any intermission ; and albeit the Citizens were miserably
pinched with Famine, and for the last twelve days lived on Horse-bread,
and Horse-flesh, yet still retained their Lx)yalty to their Sovereign Lord the
King. And at last through much difficulty were relieved by the courage
and valour of George Lord Russel, whom the King sent down as (General
of an army for their deliverance, by whom the enemy was vanquished, and
on the Sixth day of August, in the Second year of the Reign of King Edward
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rigid than those we are accuaiomed lo. and where the Ifaching and exsrclee of true
apeak It or Ihink, The t^rvW-e tomes to me* iHmly as i^tlie entrance Into The"" Church
was B service of mingling with the irndltlon*. phlloHO|>hv. morale and rt-Utcion af
partially described liy iht- di-cnrntl'in^. so arranged ihJt the gteater vlrtue'i were
emblazoned amid Ih" historical and vlciorl'ius events.
us are Holldat-s W^ni i.> them Hl'iork-il davn and auch service as the'v had "^i-
Intended and ohst-i-ved hy Ih^m a« days of Instruction and commemoration cnl-
Thls fanciful deKcrlptlon Of what lo me is a delightful composite comiire-
henslon of an old olvilliall'-n. ivlth lasting ntnliUiiv bv virtue of ttt poriraviuK a
people whose traditions reached back lo The Old Testament times, when God's
manifestations were startlhig and l.-inting. iirompis me to ask If It cannot be In-
troduced as a. counier-ihought to The Mortuary Chapel you have rtKreifully men-
tioned several times and make this Fancy into a Memorial Chai'el. located beside
the road-way of lime, as a lender of respect for the manv who havt lived and for
the m»ny to follow.
As we are dealing In fancies, lei us have n Beacon LIrIii shining back to lS3n
and Just as far ahtnd, and a symbol on the door as n reminder of Immortality and
Resurrection.
Yours truly.
S. HARRIS POMKBOV.
lai i^ttntrg 0f Broon and (HontttmU
the Sixth, Onnoque Domini 1549, the Gates of the City were again opened.
In remembrance whereof an Anniversary with much joy and solemnity is
here kept, and thankfully observed on every fifth of August."
"St. Mary's Clist, four miles from Exeter, was one of the chief scenes
of the rebellion in 1549 when the insurgents laid siege to Exeter. In August
they were attacked by the King's army under Lord Russell. By a strata-
gem Sir Thomas Pomeroy one of the chief Captains of the insurgents,
obtained a temporary victory, and the wagons, with the ammunition, treasure,
etc., belonging to the King's army were captured by Sir Thomas Pomeroy.
But Lord Russell rallied his troops, returned to the attack and defeated the
enemy with great slaughter."
In the Catalogue of Sheriffs of Devon, we find: Nicholas la Pomeray,
bears or a lion rampant gules within a bordure engrailed sable, temp.
King Edward IIL, (1377).
Thomas Pomeroy, same arms, 2 Henry IV., (1401).
Ricliard Pomeroy, same arms, 13 Henry IV., (1412).
Thomas Pomeroy, same arms, 2 Henry V., (1415).
Edward Pomeroy, same arms, 10 Henry VI., (1432).
Richard Pomeroy, same arms, 13 Edward IV., (1474).
Sir Richard Pomeroy, Kt, same arms, 8 Henry VII., (1492).
27 Queen Elizabeth we find Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., of BERRY
CASTLE, (the name Pomeroy being omitted), bears gules two angels
wings paleways inverted or.
Tradition says that Totnes was a place of note before the Norman
conquest. That it was at Totnes that Brutus, the famous Trojan, landed
after his marriage with the daughter of the King of Greece. Havillanus,
the poet, wrote :
"From hence great Brute with his Achates steer'd
Full fraught with Gallic spoils their ships appear'd;
The winds and gods were all at their command;
And happy Totnes shcw'd them grateful land"
And then the Brutus Stone is still there; that granite stone jutting from
the modern pavement, whereon the son of Silvius leaped from the vessel.
From this stone the Mayor of Totnes now proclaims the accession of a
sovereign to the throne of Great Britain.
Tradition also says that it was at Totnes that Vespatian landed when
he proceeded to the siege of Exeter. Roman coins have been discovered at
various times in the vicinity of the river, and its importance in Anglo-
Saxon days is attested by its possession of a mint in the reign of Ethelred,
978-1016. There is an account of the arrival and reception at Totnes
of Ambrosius and Uter Pendragon, the sons of Constantine, when they re-
turned from Brittany, and made successful headway against the tyranny
of Vortigem. The town must have been associated with the earliest his-
tory of Great Britain. Westcote, a chronicler of the seventeenth century,
wrote of Totnes: "It prescribes for antiquitie before any Great Brytaine
vields."
At the time of the conquest Totnes formed a portion of the demesne
of Edward the Confessor. William bestowed it with 107 manors in Devon
on Judhael, who is said to have been a son of Ahired the Giant, and who
is credited with having built the castle. William Rufus banished Judhael
and gave his barony to Roger de Xoant. In the reign of King John, the
barony was jointly held by Henry de Tracy and William de Braose. grand-
sons of Judhael, through his two daughters, whose baptismal names have
not been learned. Thence it descended to Geoffrey de Camville, father of
Amicia, who married Henry de Pomeroy (living 1267-1304). The manor
of Totnes subsequently came into the possession of the Baron la Zouche,
and in 1485 King Henry \'ll. took it from him and gave both Castk and
Lordship to Sir Piers Edgcombe, whose daughter and coheir, Jane, was the
wife of Sir Thomas de Pomeroy. Sir Edward Seymour acquired the
manor of Totnes at the same time that Berry Pomeroy fell into his hands.
Sir Thomas de Pomeroy and his wife realized from the transaction a
small tenement in Stoke-Gabriel stvled "Wills/'
•48 Nov. 1640: p. 36. 6.
"Bill of Complaint of Valentine Pomeroy of Sandridge. Stoke-Gabriel,
Esq., against George Rowe:
"Recites grant by Edward, Duke of Somerset, to Sir Thomas Pomeroy
and Dame Jane his wife, grandmother and grandfather of X'alentine
Pomerov, of a tenement called WMll in Stoke-Gabriel to hold for term of
their lives; remainder to their son Thomas Pomeroy, remainder to Arthur
Pomeroy, the second son, with other remainders. Thomas Pomeroy was
father of Valentine."
The river Dart is navigable for steamers below Totnes bridge,
although other small craft ply freely above that obstruction. In ancient times
the town had its own ships and an extensive commerce. Sailing down the
river to the mouth of the Dart in the small passenger steamer one gets
good views of Stoke Gabriel and Sandridge, the last homes held by the
ancient Pomerov Barons in Devonshire. As a modern dwelling:, the house
has been occupied by the Davis family, and was the birth-place of John
Davis, one of the first Arctic explorers. Sandridge and Stoke-Gabriel were
inherited by vounger sons of the lords of the manor of Berrv Pomerov.
It was a small tenement called Wills in Stoke Gabriel to which Sir Thomas
Pomerov and his wife retired after thev lost the Pomerov estates to Sir
Edward Seymour.
The history of Dartmouth is replete with stirring episodes of war and
rapine. Corsairs from Breton were repulsed in a notable attack at a time
when they hoped to surprise and sack the city. They were opposed by a
force of 600 men entrenched along the banks of the river, supported by the
matrons and maids in the center. The Bretons, although notable knights and
men-at-arms, were gallantly repulsed and left many dead and some prisoners.
Some time later they returned and finding the town unprepared for attack
they captured and burnt it. Dartmouth, as one of the natural harbors of
England, kept a training ship, the old "Britannia*' being the last one on duty.
She has been relieved since the construction of a palatial naval college,
which has taken over the duties.
Kingswear, the terminal station of the Dartmouth branch of the London
& Great Western Railwav, also has its historical interest. It is said to have
been the port of departure of King Richard on his crusade to the Holy
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Land, and two hundred years later thirty ships and a full complement of
fighting men sailed from KIngswear to take part in the battle of Sluys.
Brixham, on Berry Head, is also closely associated with the Pomeroy
family, and as late as 1818 Brixham Pomeroys have emigrated to the United
States from that interesting port. While they do not trace their ances-
tors by generations, the English parish records contained in this volume
will lead them in the right direction, if they can fill an intervening
gap of two hundred years. English documents at the British Museum tell
us that the Pomeroys of Devonshire owned all the shores of Tor Bay, one
of the finest harbors in the world, and in which at any time may be seen
riding at anchor five or six of England's great ships-of-war. The Valletorts
and Corbets. kinsmen of the Pomeroys, also held lands at Brixham. Tor-
Bay was infested by pirates and privateers in the early days, lying at anchor
to await the approach of unarmed merchant ships. Commodore Drake.
the naval hero of Devonshire, captured and brought into Tor Bay the great
Spanish galleon Capitana, leaving her in charge of the Brixham fishermen
until the store of powder in her hold could be secured. There is a statue
on the dock pier of William Prince of Orange, King William III., who first
placed his feet on British soil at Brixham. And it is said that it was
here in Tor Bay that Sir Ralph de La Pommeraie brought the fleet in which
he and his retainers had crossed from Normandy, landed after the battle
of Hastings and marched back over Berry Head in search of the natural
defensive location upon which to build his stronghold. Berry Pomeroy
Castle.
Torquay and Paignton also command excellent views of Tor Bay. The
former is a very romantic spot and is thought by some of the visitors to be
the Queen of all the cities of this region. One of its chief attractions, aside
from the bay, is Kent's cavern, considered to be one of the most remarkable
caves in the world. It has been thoroughly investigated by the Devon-
shire Association of Savants. Paignton is now and has been for many years
a fashionable watering place. It is the most convenient and pleasant
locality for the headquarters of parties who purpose visiting the parks and
castle of Berr>' Pomeroy. Although the distance is greater than that from
Totnes, the motor busses running between Paignton and Totnes, one shill-
ing for the trip, are always ready to take the visitor on the way to Berry
Pomeroy, leaving bim at the forks of the road to walk through the woods
and park. This short ramble includes the village and church of Berry Pome-
roy and is enjoyable at any season. No district in Devonshire is so glowing
in beautiful foliage and charming green lanes leading into mysterious
distances as are found in the neighborhood of Berry Pomeroy and the Valley
of the Dart.
Comworthy is about four miles from Totnes, and had once a priory
of the order of St. Austin. It was founded in 1237 by the Zouche family,
which acquired in later days a moiety of the hundreds of Sir Thomas
Pomeroy and Sir Peter Edgecomb, but which were returned to their former
lords by King Henry VIII. The last prioress was Avisia Dynham, who
was elected Jan., 1520. The community then consisted of but seven nuns
and was subject to the priory of Totnes. The priory buildings have long
since disappeared, but on Court Prior farm are still to be seen the remains
of a double groined arched gateway, over which are the remains of a tower.
It was here at Comworthy that Edward Harrys lived, his first wife being
Phillippa Vowell, daughter of Agnes Pomeroy ; his second wife was Anne,
daughter of William Huckmore, who after Mr. Harrys' death married Henry
Pomeroy, our ancestor of the sixteenth generation.
And then we come to Harburton, which is beautifullv located in a
valley and is a village of some pretension. St. Andrew Church stands in
the center of the town as may be seen in the engraving, and is of the per-
pendicular style of the fifteenth century, the tower being embattled and
pinnacled. There is a handsome screen of carved oak, while the clustered
columns have foliated capitals. The circular font is Anglo-Norman and
there are three richly canopied stalls in the chancel. The church has some
richly stained glass windows and interesting memorials. The churchyard
cross is modeled from that at Chewton Mendip, one of the four rare cano-
pied crosses of Somerset. It was at Harberton that John, third son of
Thomas Pomeroy of the seventeenth generation lived, and the town which
gave its name to Arthur Pomeroy with the title of Viscount Harberton of
Castle Carberry in 1783.
15B5-lB7a
VjHb SffimtiiatttB in Amrrira
''But there remained two of the men in
the camp, the name of the one was Eldad and
the name of the other Medad; and the spirit
rested upon them; and they were of them
that were written, but went not out unto the
tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp,
"And there ran a young man, and told
Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do
prophesy in the camp.
"And Joshua, the son of Nun, the ser-
vant of Moses, one of his young men, an-
swered and said, My lord, Moses, forbid
them.
"And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou
for my sake? Would God that all the
Lord's people were prophets, and that the
Lord would put his spirit upon them!"— Num-
bers, 11:26-29.
History teaches that the Puritans and Pilgrims began the migration
from England during the last years of the reign of James I., and that it
continued to grow in volume after Charles I. succeeded to the throne, 1620
to 1650, by reason of undesirable civil and religious conditions, inaugurated
by him, to which it was impossible for the earnest men and women of the
day to conform. The civil troubles arose principally from the illegal per-
sistence of Charles I., to levy ship-tax and army-tax without discrimination.
Thomas Wentworth, who was eager to establish his power in larger
125 CUntppd i^omrrog in Atnrrini
measure, found that only a standing army could enable him to gratify his
personal desire for honors, and directed untiring energies to that end.
In the meantime, William Laud was the administrator of ecclesiastical
conscience, and as Archbishop of Canterbury he had departed farther from
the principles of the Reformation and haci drawn nearer to the observances
of the church of Rome than any of the prelates of the Anglican church.
It is said that his theology was more remote than even that of the Dutch
Armenians from the theology of Calvin. His ill-considered dislike of the
marriage of ecclesiastics would have made him an object of aversion to the
Puritans, even if he had used gentle means for the attainment of his ends.
But he was inclined to mistake his own wicked emotions for religious
zeal. Hence the remote corners of the realm were subject to constant
inspection. Every congregation of Separatists ( Xon-conformists) was
trailed and their meetings broken up. And the tribunals offered no pro-
tection.
At this conjunction many of the English people looked to the American
wilderness as the only asylum in which they could enjoy the comforts of
their religion in peace and without fear. It was then that a few resolute
Puritans and Pilgrims, who. in the cause of their religion, entertained no
thought of the tempest of the ocean, nor the hardships of uncivilized life,
made the passage to the new world, and built amid the primeval forests,
their homes and villages, which have to this day retained some trace of the
character derived from their founders. The English government made
great effort to stop this stream of emigration, but could not prevent the
population of New England from being recruited by its best citizens, God-
fearing men. from every part of Old England.
Among those spirited and determined men and women we find Eltweed
Pomero\ and his wife. Margery Rockett Pomeroy. In February. 1630, as
a Pilgrim he attended the meetings of the Puritans in the New Hospital,
Plymouth, with a purpose to emigrate to the New World. This company
was principally from the counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset. They
selected the Rev. John Wareham of Exeter and the Rev. John Maverick
as their pastors.
On March 30, 1630. they embarked in the 400-ton ship "Mary and
John." Captain Squeb. The number of the company was one hundred and
f(^rty. After seventy days' sail they entered the harbor of Nantasket, and
landed at Matapan, where they laid out the town of Dorchester, named in
honor of the old home of so many of the company ; and also of that of the
Rev. John White, their friend and patron. We^iow have Eltweed Pomeroy
filling the interval between his ancestors of the Old World and his descen-
dants of the New, established at Dorchester, in the Colony of the Massa-
chusetts Bav.
, 1 ELTWEED POMEROY, {son of Richard), bp. July 4. 1585,
Beaminster, County Dorset, England; m. (1) May 4, 1617, at Bca-
mlnster, Johana Keech, who d. Nov. 27, 1620, Beaminster; he m. (2)
May 7, 1629, at Crewkerne, County Somerset, England, Margery
Rockett, birth date unknown, d. July 5, 1655, Windsor, Conn., she
having emigrated with her husband to America, and was the mother
of all his children born in America; he m. (3) Nov. 30, 1661, Lydia
(tptvalosQ of tl^t PomrroQ J^amilg 126
Brown, (widow of Thomas Parsons); Eltweed Pomeroy d. March,
1673. at the home of his son. Medad, Northampton. Mass. ; tradition
asserts that he became bh'nd.
-?d gen. Children by ist zcife:
2 Dinah Pomeroy, bp. Aug. 6, 1617, Beaminster. England: d. at
Reaminster.
3 Elizabeth Pomeroy. b. Xov. 1619: d. 1621, Beaminster, England.
Children by 2d tvifc:
4 Eld.\d Pomeroy. b. Feb.. 1630. Plymouth, County Devon. England:
admitted freeman at Dorchester. Massachusetts Bay. 1638. (sic.) :
granted by the committee of the General Court, about 1660. fifteen
acres of meadow land and ploughing at Massan. on the west side
of the Connecticut River, which he sold to Jonathan Gillett : he was
betrothed to Susanna, only child of Henry CunlifVe. and left hv^r
part of his property by will: d. May 22, 1662. Northampton. Mass.:
unm.
5 Mary Pomeroy. b. Dorchester: d. Dec. 19. 1640. Windsor. Conn.
6 John- Pomeroy, b. Dorchester: d. 1647, Windsor.
7 Medad Pomeroy, bp. Aug. 19, 1638. +
8 Caleb Pomeroy, bp. March 6, 1641. +
9 Mary Pomeroy, bp. April 21, 1644. Windsor: d. 1657. Windsor.
10 Joshua Pomeroy. bp. Xov. 22, 1646. +
11 Joseph Pomeroy. bp. June 20, 1652. +
It is held bv some descendants of Eltweed Pomerov that there were
two other children: but if so the Annalist has been unable to find
such records.
Copy of a letter from Rev. A. A. Leonard. \'icar of Beaminster. Countv
Dorset, England :
"Beaminster X'icarage. Dorset.
"My dear Sir:— "Jan. 31. 1907.
"You will remember my giving you about a year ago the date of the
baptism of Eltweed Pomeroy. son of Richard Pomeroy. You asked mc to
let you know if I happened to come across any other entries relatinc: lu
that family. I have now copied the diocesan transcripts to the end of 1624,
but mv records are not complete, as there are several vears missing, viz:
1589-1590. eight years missing after 1594. 1616 and 1622. 1627-1633, and
1636-1639. Your family is peculiarly fortunate as the record of the chris-
tening of Eltweed Pomeroy is the first entry in the Registry. I find the
baptism of two other Pomeroys, younger brothers of Eltweed perhaps,
although the parents' names are not stated :
"Edward Pomeroy. bapt. 4 March 1591.
"Henry Pomeroy, bapt. 5 Aug. 1593.
"Edward died before he was two years old and was buried 19 July
1592. Another day I may come across Henry again.
"I learn from another member of the American Pomeroys, who was
here last summer, that Eltweed married Mary Rockett at Crewkerne, 7 May
1629. This is no doubt well known to you, but you may not be aware that
Photosraphlc evidence of the deadi or Jolinuna Kitcli. nr^t n-lte ot Ell-a-red Pomero
.. „- ..-„ -- , «nd Johana K«eeh,
also, the chrlitenlns ot DInkh. thtir daughter.
IZ7 lEUmnh i^omrrog ttt Amnint
Eltweed had been previously married at Beaminster, to Joan Keech, date 4
May 1616. Two daughters were born to them:
'*Dinah Pomerov. b. Aug. 6, 1617.
"Ehzabeth Pomeroy, b. 1619: d. 1621.
**I can find no sons. loan, the wife of Eltweed. was buried 27 Nov.
1620, when her daughter Elizabeth was just a year old. So when Eltweed
Pomerov married Marsjerv Rockett he had been a widower nearlv seven
years, unless there was another marriage between.
**I am glad to be able to give you the above notes and hope they may
be of some interest. If you are ever in the old country again and near
enough, I hope you will call on me.
"Yours faithfully,
**H. B. Pomeroy, Esq. (Signed) **A. A. Leo.vard. Vicar."
The record of Eltweed Pomcroy's baptism to which the Rev. A. A.
Leonard refers is as follows:
"Beaminster: Eltwitt. son of Richarde Pomerave was christened the
fowerth of Julie." (The year is given over the entry.)
The indorsement following the above statement is: "This is the first
entry in the records, and signed :
A. A. Leonwrd. \*icar.
Beaminster Parish Church. Dorset.
(From Abstracts of Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Reg-
ister Soamc, 1620. 1 Soame, 136-64. Somerset House.)
John Rockett alias Wakeley of Holdich. parish of Thorncombe. County
Devon, (sic) (Date 7 Xov. 1615). Churches and poor of Thornecombe and
Hawkchurch, County Dorset, and poor of Chardstocke. County Dorset:
dau. Elizabeth, wife of Richard VVilkins, Johane Wilkins, dau. of said
Elizabeth and Richard. Mary Wilkins, their youngest daughter: kinswoman
Elizabeth Rockett. dwelling in my house : brother-in-law Lawrence Pye :
sons Richard Wilkins. Thomas and Nicholas Rockett. tenement called
Chackridge, parish of Hawkechurch. County Dorset: John Rockett son of
Thomas Rockett. (under 21) : Thomas Rockett son of said Thomas (under
21): other children of said Thomas, lands in Thornecombe bot. of John
Edgar, gent, called Muttlcburycs Common Close: Indr. date 13 March 4
James 1 (1607); land called Herriges W'estlease and Little Pidmore.
parish of Thornecombe. leased from Alexander Walker of Combe St.
Xicholas, County Somerset, gent and Helen his wife, Xicholas Walker of
Thornecombe. gent and Marg. his wife ; John Rossiter of Henton St. George,
County Somerset, gent, and John Symmes of Chard, County Somerset,
yeom. : grandchildren Johane and Elizal:)eth Rockett, daughters of son
Xicholas, land called Gribb in Thornecombe. bot of John Edgar, son of John
Edgar the elder of Thornecombe. gent, and John Edgar the younger; two
poor scholars of Thornecombe : school there ; Richard Channon of Winshani,
County Somerset; gr. chn, are under 21; exors said sons Thomas and
Xicholas.
Cod. (Dat. "a little before his death.") Nicholas, son of son Nicholas;
Robert, son of son Thomas; Robert, son of son-in-law Richard Wilkins,
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land bot of Anthony Freeke in Henwood called Common Close : Mary W'il-
kins, daii. of son-in-law Ric. Wilkins: Mary Rockett, dau. of son Thomas:
Marv Rockett. dau. of son Xicholas : sister Joan Pve: Thomas Clarke:
John Larcombe : Robt. Channin.i2:: Alice Palfrie: Xathaniel Saunders; sister
Christian Channing: Walter Lane: John Bagwell: Henry Adams: Robt.
Michel): Xic. Bowditch : Peter Adams: John W'hedon: William Knott:
Mathew Cooknev : Edward Moore.
(No sig.) (Pr. 8 Jan. 1619-20. ^
Your Secretary and .-Xnnalist. while in England, examined the original
of the will of John Rockett alias Wakeley. at Somerset House. It filled
three pages of the large parchment MSS. bonks, but no one is permitted to
copy those old wills entire and must be .satisfied with transcripts such as is
presented here. While there was no further reference to \\'akely in the
nature of an explanation why John Rockett carried that alias into his
will, most other points are definite enough for our purpose. This entire
family of Rocketts came to America. John coming with his sister Mary
or ^largery. We find in "Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts," page ^SS.
the entry: "John Rockett. propr.. 1638. Dorchester Mass." Savage also
mentions Xicholas. lohn and Richard Rockett. and j;avs it is also written
"Rockwood." The Adams familv. members of which are mentioned in
this will, the Channons, Pye. Wilkins and many other families from the
parishes of Hawkechurch and Thornecombe came over during the next
two or three years. One of our \'ice- Presidents. Mrs. Deborah Pomeroy
Darling, has made a close study of the Rockett family and found some very
interesting and conclusive notes on the subject, developing the fact that
the persons mentioned in John Rockett's will intermarried and were neicrh-
bors in the Colonies. Massachusetts and Connecticut. The name of Richard
Rockett appears in the records of the first settlers of Dorchester in 1630.
He removed to Weymouth, thence to Braintree. where he died in 1660.
He was of the company that removed to Windsor, Conn.. 1635-1636. but
did not go there at the time of the migration. He had married Agnes,
widow of Zachariah Bicknell, who came from Weymouth. England. This
Richard is perhaps one of "the other children of said Thomas" mentioned
in the will of John Rockett, the grandfather. Mrs. Darling continues: In
the Medfield Record. Nicholas Rockwood* and Margaret Holliock mar-
ried May 16. 1656. Xicholas Rockwood. who was of the Wareham com-
pany, England, came in the "Mary and John." Capt. Squebb: landed first
at Nantasket. and were first settlers of Dorchester before Boston was
.settled: he died at Medfield, 1680. This Xicholas was perhaps a son of
John Rockett, mentioned in the will of his grandfather, as under twenty-
one, his father being Thomas, and his uncle was Xicholas.
"I examined the genealog>' of Henry Adams and am sure that he was
the Henry Adams mentioned in the Rockett will, and that Peter Adams also
mentioned in that will was one of his sons, although he may have had a
brother Peter. He came with eight sons and several of those sons moved
to Medfield with the Rocketts, and the families intermarried also. President
John Adams and his family claim descent from Henry Adams.
* Doubtless a son of Nicholas Rockett of the Wareham company.
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129 l^ltmnh i^omrrog in Amrrtra
"On a stone in the Braintree cemetery, erected by John Adams, is
inscribed :
" *In memory of Henry Adams, who took his flight from the Dragon
Persecution in Devonshire. England, and alighted with eight sons near
^ Mt. Wollaston,' '* etc.
We now have three of the grandchildren of John Rockett. Sr., ac-
counted for in America, leaving Robert Rockett, son of Thomas, to repre-
sent the family in England. The Secretary found the will of Robert
Rockett at Somerset House, and for a time thought it was the will of this
Robert, as it was witnessed by John Pinny e, John Rockett the Elder, John
Rockett the Younger, and Robert Pesinge; pro. 13 Dec. 1600. Closer
study, however, convinces that it is the will of Robert, brother of John
Rockett the Elder. In this will there is an item giving "Unto Richard
Channon and Mary Rockett Three poundes six shillings eight pence apiece
at their several ages of One and Twenty years." This Richard Channon
was a nephew of both elder Rockets.
To establish the identitv of the names Rocket and Rockwood, the
deed found by Mrs. Darling will suffice. It is from the records in the
court house at Cambridge, Mass. :
"I John Rocet, husbandman, of Medway" give land in Hopkinton "to
my son John Rocket of Medway, part of a lot of land granted formerly to
William Yory by the Gen*l Court 284 acres, bounded by land of Jasper
Adams, of Benjamin Thayer's heirs, on common land, on land of John
Jones, land of Samuel Adkins, etc., Dec. 24, 1729, and in the third year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God,
of Great Britain King. &c/'
"John Rocket and Seal.
"Teremiah Daniel,
"Henrv Daniel, Witn.
"Medwav. March ve 21. 17.30-40. John Rockwood within writt»en
apfwared and fully acknowledged the within written instrument to be his
act and deed.
"Before me, "Edward Clapp, Just. Peace.
"Camb. Januarv 31, 1746."
Proved 13 Dec. 1600.
(From "Notes on the Early Rockwoods of Massachusetts" by Charles A.
Flagg. 1905,)
"Rockwood and Rockett are used interchangeably, with the latter form
predominating. For example: The \'ital Statistics of Medfield, Mass.,
down to 1728, as kept by the town clerks show eleven Rockets, forty-nine
Rocketts, one Rockit, and five Rockwoods, all members of one family. The
tradition is given here that one Rockwood, a page at the Court of Henry
Vni., played chess and won from the King a manor and that he received
from the King for his arms six chess rooks."
Then the question arises: Is Mary and Margery, a girl's name, also
interchangeable? Is Margery a diminutive of Mary? It appears from the
mass of records we have assembled that Eltweed Pomeroy*s wife was as
susceptible to pet names, or a change in style from the name bestowed at
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christening, as are tlic young girls of the present day. She was christened
Mary, married as Marjery, and died as Mary, the latter on authority of
Windsor. Conn., records: "Died, July 3, 1655, Mary, wife of Eltweed
Pomeroy."
(From a leaflet, compiled by William li\ Rodman, and communicated by
Mrs, Henry Thorp Bnfklcy, *'Eltzcecd Pomeroy of Dorchester, Mass.,
and Windsor, Conn,, and Four Generations of his Descendants,^' re*
printed from A't'Ti' England Historical and Genealogical Register,
for July, IQ03. zeith some additions.)
"Of his first wife, the mother of his ei*;ht children, we know only that
bhc was named Mary, and died in Windsor. July 5, 1655."
The photograph of the register at the parish church of Crcwkerne.
Somerset. England, testified to by Herbert Gaye. Vicar, and presented
herewith, studied through a strong glass, spells the name "Maryery." and
is no doubt intended for a diminutive of Marv. Motten's ( )riirinal List
has a Mary spelled "Maryes* Harriet, of Stoke Pomeroy in Devon, Eng-
land : aged twenty-three years or thereabouts.
The proof is not conclusive, however, that Mary Rockett, dau. of son
Thomas Rockett. of the will of grandfather John Rockett of Holdich,
parish of Thornecombe, County Devon ( the parish is in both Devon and
Dorset) was wife of Eltweed Pomeroy. The parishes named in the will,
and Honiton. Crewkerne and Beaminster are all within a radius of ten
miles. The Annalist was at each of these places. All are reached by the
I^ndon and Southwestern Railroad, except Beaminster, which is about
six miles from the railroad, a conveyance running once a day.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury — Somerset House. FoL 80. Wallop,
In the name of God, Amen. On the 5th day of June, A. D. 1600, 1
Robert Rockett of Hawkechurch in the Countie of Dorset, sicke of bodie but
perfectc of mind and memorie do make and ordaine this my last will and
Testament in mannor and forme following, viz.:
ffirst, I will and bequeath my soule into the hands of God and my bodie
to the earth.
Item. I give to the poor of the parish Twenty shillinges, the one-half
to be distributed by my wief and the other half at the f feaste of the Nativitye
of Christ next followinge.
Item. I give unto every of my grd. children ffower pence.
Item. I give unto Richard Channon and unto Mary Rockett Thre
poundes six shillings eighte pence apiece at their several ages of One and
Twenty years.
Item. I give unto my sister Marie and Alice her daughter Thre shil-
linges ffouer pence apeece.
Item. I give unto Thomas Allen six shillinges eight" pence.
Item. I give unto Edward Bragg one-half acre of my wheate nowe
in grounde.
Itim. I give unto the thre eldest children of my sister Christian one
sheepe apiece.
(fhiirrh at (frruikrnir - l^iimrrsrt
"here Litweed Pomeroy and Margery Rocltett
were married
<i:rruiltrnir - fromrrfirt
131 lEltmtth Pomrrog in Amrrira
Item. I give unto my thre servantes every of them a sheepe.
Item. I give unto John Pinny the younger one heiffer of one yeares
age.
Item. I give unto John Pinney the elder one yew sheepe and all my
outhouses (meaning shelter for sheep and poultry in the fields), with all
such movable thinges as are appertaginge to the same, and one wood ryme
standing againste and out-howse.
All the rest of my goodes, chattells and household stuffe whatsoever,
moveable and unmoveablc not before given or bequeathed I give and be-
queathe unto Anne my wcif whom I make my full and whole executrix, and
after the decease of my wief unto Thomas Pyunye her sonne, and hereby re-
nownce all former wills and ijifFtes whatsovercr, and that this mav the
better stande and be in ettccte I ha\e called to witness
John Pinnye
John Rocket the elder
John Rocket the younger
and Robert Pesinge.
Eltweed Pomeroy took the oath of Freeman in the Colony of Massa-
chusetts Bay on March 4. 1632. — {.\fass. Colony Records, Vol /. page 36/ J
* * * He was one of the first settlers and proprietors of the town of
Dorchester, and First Selectman in 1633. — (History of Dorchester, 1859,
PP' 33-33') * * * The first qualification essential to attain to the privi-
leges of Freeman was that the candidate be a member of some church, no
age limit being mentioned: "To the end the body of Freeman may be
preserved of honest and good men. It is ordered. That henceforth no
man shall be admitted to the freedom of this commonwealth, but such
as are members of some of the Churches, within the limits of this jur-
isdiction."— (Colonial Lazes, 164J)
**In answer to that part of Mis Majestyes Letter of June 28, 1662,
Concerning Admission of Freemen: This Court doth Declare, That the
Law prohibiting all Persons except Members of Churches, and that also
for allowance of them in any County Court, are hereby Repealed, And
do hereby also Order and Enact, That from henceforth all English men
presenting a Certificate under the hand of the Ministers, or Minister of
the Place where they dwell, that they are Orthodox in Religion, and not
Vicious in their Lives, and also a certificate under the hands of the Select-
men of the place, or the major part of them, that they are Free holders.
* * * It shall be in the liberty of all and every such Person or Persons,
being twenty- four years of age. Householders, and settled Inhabitants in
this Jurisdiction, from time to time to present themselves and their desires
to this Court, for their admittance to the freedome of this commonwealth
* * *'' — (Extracts from Colonial Laws.)
Following is the form of the oath prescribed to those who desired to
attain to the honors and responsibilities of a Freeman:
"I, (Eltweed Pomeroy) being by God's providence, an inhabitant &
ffreeman within the jurisdiccon of this commonweale doe freely acknowledge
my selfe to be subject to the goverm't thereof, & therefore doe heere sweare,
by the great and dreadfull name of the everlyveing God, that I wille be true
and faithful to the same, & will accordingly yeild assistance and support
(SntraloQg nf tl^r Pomrrog Jamiltj 132
thereunto, with my p'son & 0*^11110. as in c(|uit\ I am iMniiul. & will truly in-
cleavV to mainctaine & preserve all the Lihertyes & priviled^es ihereuf.
.submitting my selfe to the wholesome lawes iS: oniers made and established
by the same: and lurth'r that I will not plott nor practice any evill against
it, nor consent to anv that shall soe d'v. but will timelv discover & reveale
the same to lawfull authority now here established, for the speedy pre-
venting^' thereof. Moreover I <loe solemnly bynde my selfe in the si^ht of
Ciod, that when I shalbe called to pve my voice tiiuchinir any such matter
of this state, wherein ttreeman are to deale. 1 will ,i>ive my voice «S: sutfra.uv,
as I shall judge in myne owne conscience may best c» induce & tend to the
publique weale nt the body, witlmnt respect to p'sons. or fav'r of any man.
Soe helpe nice, ("lod, in the Lf»rd lesus C'hri<t." — f Mass. C'^L Rcc. I. /». ///J
"Eltweed Pomertjy. who came from l)ev<»nshire. Mngland. to this coun-
try in 1630, lived in Dorchester and W indsc»r, and died in Xnrihampton
in 1673. and was pro.ueniiur of a large ptirti«>n if noi all who bear that
name in the L'niied States, lie is rei)rescnu'd to have been a man of good
family, tracing his pedigree back 10 Sir Kalf de I'omeroy. a favorite knight
of William the Conqueror, whom he accom])anied into England, acting a
conspicuous part in the battle of llastings. fuught < >ci. 14. 10»^>. and after-
wards building a castle called IJerry Toi pen »y. still in preservation on the
grant which he received from the crown." — (History of Easthainpton, by
Pavsou '/'. Lyman; in Essex Institute Library.)
"Eltweed Pomeroy is in the list of those who were made freemen pre-
vious to the date of the Church Reci)rds, August 23, 1636.
"Besides the right oi suffrage, the freemen enjoyed advantages in the
division of the lands, and were members of the (ieneral Court until the
representative system began." — (Good Old Dorchester : li'illiam Dana
Orcutt.)
"Pomeroy. Eltweed. b. in England about 15-5: d. in Northampton (^?)
Mass.. 1673: came to America 1630: elected head of the first local town
government in any of the X. E. colonies. ( >ct. J3. 1635 : removed to Windsor.
Conn., 1638." — (American Ancest.j
'*The first emigration to Windsor took place October, 1635. It was
continued in the spring of 1636." — (Records of the First Church of Dor-
chester, in Xcic England,)
**Tn 1636-37 Mr. Pomeroy emigrated with Rev. John Warham's con-
gregation to Windsor, Conn." — (History of Dorchester,) * * * Refer-
ence to him may be found in Stiles's "Ancient Windsor," \'ol. I, p. 164.
et seq. : *"His place in the meeting house was on the long seats. Land was
granted him in 1638. He had a house and lot in the palisadeo, which he
sold to Thomas Xowell in 1641 : and he made gifts of houses and land to
his son Caleb and his youngest son Joseph. * * * In 1665 he made
generous provisions for his " 'dear and loving wife Lydia.' '*
"In 1671 he removed to X'orthampton, Mass., to live with his son,
Medad. Tradition says he became blind. He died at his son's house in
March. 1673, being eighty-eight years old." — fXcw England Historical and
Genealogical Record,)
(From ^'History of Ancient Windsor:** Stiles,^
"William Thrall, plaintiff, against Eltwed Pomeroy. defendant. An
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action to the damage <u' £1 7s Ocl. In this action wc (perhaps town clerk)
fnulc for plaintiff: damaj^e £1 7s 0<l; cost £0 .>s M."
•M'onieroy, Eltwotxi. 1638 (from Dorchester i lot '^r. 15 r. wide (its
s. w. cor. should he 22 r. X. of Palisado ) : sold lot in Pal. N. end of meet-
ing house, on wh. he had hnilt a ho. at time of l^eq. war, to Thos. Nowell,
1^341 : rem. in Xorthampton before < >ct. 1671."
"His son Caleb m. 1664, when his father t^ave him a part of the pater-
nal home-lot w. of the st. which he sold, with the frame of a building: he
sold also, to Talian (irant that part of the homestead E. of st. including
that part wh. had been set out to Eltwood Pomerov's wife, and the little
stone house built by Mrs. Unit, which had been reserved. 1663. for his
son Joseph, when his time should he out with Goodman (iunn."
**After the Rev. Mr. Huit's death, in U>+4. his widow had a dwelling
on Pomerov's land. The land records ])rescrve this item: Whereas, Eltweed
Pomeroy formerly gave Mrs. Elizabeth liuit. in the time of her widowhood,
in way of courtesy, to build her a house, by the help of her friends adjoin-
ing to the end of his dwolling-lKnise. to use for her own during her life,
which slie enjoyed, and afu-r her deaih the said Eltwed Pomeroy took it
for his own. at a [jrice ai^reed upon between him and those whom she desired
as her overseers and frionds. to carder that little estate which she left for her
children, which price he hath payed as ihe\ appointed him.' **
"Eltweed l*umeroy had land on the Connecticut River, frontage on
river 30 rods. \i. 3 m. : bd. \. by Roger Ludlow. S. by Will. Hill. Sold to
Whiting: bo't fron\ Wid. Whiting by John L>is>ell, who gave it to his son
Thomas, 1658."
**Eltweed P'-meroy i I-'luved, I\Hwo(k1i had a mare killed or lost during
the IVquot trt)ubles. 1637. for whicli. after much petitioning, the general
ct)urt. he receive«l an iiulonmity nf £10 in wampum a. 6 a. penny."
Wlien the iniii.il aciioii was taken to establish a town government in
this country. Rliweod Pcjmeroy readily demonstrated the fact that he had
been a man i)f affairs an<l tiiat he was familiar with business methods, and at
once lo<»k a leading place in the community at Dorchester, where the first
t»)wn government was organized. F-Ie was one of the proprietors in that
plantation and had been chosen as chairman of the board of Selectmen,
comprised of twelve of the more notable men in the little colony of what
is now known as the Dorchester District of Boston.
This town government was orcranized in August. 1633. and the first
town meeting in the Cnited ."states was held at the junction of Cottage and
Pond streets, in that town, over which Eltweed Pomeroy presided, by virtue
oi his office as first selectman. In those davs the crovernor of a colonv or
commimity had no more power than a selectman, but was of equal influence.
It is also held with justice that this community over which Eltweed
Pomeroy presided as chairman of the board of selectmen, established the
first free public school in the country, although this school was in part
endowed by the proprietors of Thompson's Island. However, Dorchester
more completely supported its public schools in 1630 by general taxation
than Bost(Mi does now.
Tlie congregation of the first church of the Dorchester (Mass.) colony
held its initial .service in Jime. 16,^. The meeting house was on the corner
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of what is now East Cotta^ije and Pleasant streets, Boston. It was built
of logs, surrounded by palisades, and had a thatched roof: and a sentinel
was kept on guard, so that it served as a place of refuge and defense against
the Indians. On the first day of the week the colony held its meetings as
a church ; on the second day of the week the town meetings were held. An
extract from the "Outlook" (Xew York) says:
"This Dorchester town meeting, the first in America, was the model of
all the town meetings in Xew England, and the germ of our American
commonwealths. Near by was soon established the first free school sup-
ported by general taxation in America.''
It can therefore readily be believed that Eltweed Pomcroy was a man
of large influence in this new environment, and believed in fostering all
enterprises tending to educate and elevate the colony.
Authorities differ concemins: the vcar Eltweed Pomerov and a number
of the colonists of Dorchester moved with their minister, the Rev. Mr.
VVareham, to Windsor, on the Connecticut river. It is probable, however,
that it was in U)36 that the miirration toc^k place, and the rcci»nls ouUain
grants of land in that town in his fav<»r in 1^)40.
When Eltweed Pomeroy and his companions of the colony of Dor-
chester moved their effects to Windsor, they carried along the records of
Dorchester, which they had prepared up to that date. I'liwced's n.ip.io
appears in the list of the proprietors of Windsor, but the first record of lands
was not made until 1640. In 1644 he was appointed, by order of the court,
an inspector of linen and woolen yarn.
(From the Dorchester Toi<'u Records j
"An agreement by the whole consent and vote of the Plantation, made
Mondav. 8th dav of October, 1633:
"Imprimus, it is ordered for the general good and well ordering of the
affairs of the Plantation, there shall be everv Mondav befi^rc the Court
by eight of the clock in the morning: and be present upon the l)eating of
the drum, a general meeting of the inhabitants of the Plantation, at the
Meeting House, there to settle and set down such orders as may tend to
the general good as aforesaid : and every man to be bound thereby without
gainsaying or resistance. It is also agreed that there shall be twelve men
selected out of the company that may, or the greatest part of them, meet
as aforesaid to determine as aforesaid, vet so as it is desired that the most
of the Plantation will keep the meeting constantly, and all that are there
although none of the twelve shall have a freer voice as any of the twelve,
and that the greater vote, both of the twelve and the other shall be of force
and efficacv as aforesaid.
9
"And it is likewise ordered that all things concluded as aforesaid shall
stand in force and be obeyed until the next monthly meeting and afterwards
if it be not contradicted and otherwise ordered upon the said monthly meet-
ing by the greatest number of tliose that are present as aforesaid. Moreover,
135 lEitmnh J^amfro^ in Am^rira
because the Court in in vacancy of this said meeting, to
continue till the first Monday in the month.
Mr. Johnson,
Mr. Eltweed Pomekoy,
Mr. Richards,
John Pierce.
George Hull,
William Phelps,
Thom. Ford.
"The proportion which each man is to have of the Town's pasture and
other lands according to the same rule for division, for every one on this
side of the river
"The Maps of the Meadows beyond Xaponset River ... .85.
W-
"On June 3, 1634. Kltweed Pomeroy was appointed by the General
Court. Constable of Dorchester." (His official title, *"Ca.," with above sig-
nature, i^erhaps Captain or Constable, could not be reproduced in the photo-
graph. )
Quoting from an article in the American (Whig) Review, of New
York, 1848, from the pen of the Hon. X. S. Dodge:
"This Eltweed Pomeroy is represented to have been a man of good
family, tracing his pedigree back to Sir Ralph de Pomeroy, who accom-
panied William of Xormandy into England. * * * Like most of the
Dissenters of that age Eltweed was a mechanic, having for many years
carried on the business of making guns to a large extent and with much
reputation. Cpon sailing for America, he closed his business, and selling
most of his stock in trade, brous^ht with him only his tools. After a
residence of several years in Dorcester, the province of Massachusetts
Ijav offored him a i^rant of 1,000 acres of land on the Connecticut river on
the condition of his establishing his business as a gunsmith within tlic bounds
of the province. He did so; and it is a curious fact that, among seven
generations which succeeded him, there has been lacking at no time in the
(lirect male branch of descent, a follower of the original trade. The only
article of the Tools, of the old progenitor of the family, which he brought
from England, known to be still in existence, is the original anvil, now
in the possession of Lemuel Pomeroy, Esq.,* of Pittsfield, who was for
more than thirty years a large contractor with the United States government
for arms.*'
Working in iron, fashioning implements of war, was perhaps inherent
with Eltweed Pomeroy. In the early days of the Northmen the princes
and other nobles of Norway were workers in iron. They made their own
arms and armor, battle axes, spears, lances and other implements of war,
and the Norman warriors of much later period continued the art or practice.
Many Norman youths of generations not long in the past were bound ap-
=*Now (Jan. 5, 1912) in possession of Mrs. Edward Pomeroy, Pittsfield,
Mass.
dtmBio^^ at lift Pomrrog J^anttlQ 136
prentices as armorers in the guilds of England. These facts doubtless have
some bearing on the facility with which our ancestors in America took so
readily and spontaneously to the occupation of making arms of offense
and defense, swords, gims, pikes and the lances ( which the matross carried )
during the Revolutionary war.
(Extracts from History of DorcJicstcr, pp. v>3-34-35. i
"The first meeting house erected in Dorchester and the first in the
Bay was built on Allen's Plain near the corner of Pleasant and Cottage
streets in 1631, and the first settlers of Roxbury united themselves with
the Dorchester Church and worshipped here with them. Mr. W'arham
held a lecture here on the fourth day of each week bv an understanding with
the other plantations. This building was made a depot for military stores
and before the apprehension of attack from Indians subsided was |)alisatled
and guarded at night W'inthrop montit:»n> that cm the 19th of March.
1632, Mr. Maverick accidently set fire to a small barrel! containing two
or three pounds of powder in the new meeting house at Dorchester, which
was thatched, and the thatch (aily blackened a little. The meetings of the
inhabitants of the plantation were held in this building. It continued to
serve the plantation for the first fifteen years of the settlement.
"May 3d, 1633, the town granted leave to Mr. Israel Stoughton to
build a water mill and in January following the mill and a bridge over
the Xeponset being completed, the privilege of erecting a fish wear was
voted to Mr. Stoughton. he agreeing to sell alewives to the plantation for
five shillings per thousand, and to give the inhabitants the preference in
selling all fish taken. Stoughton agreed not to sell the mill without con-
sent of the plantation. The General Court confirming these proceedings
in September. 1634. upon condition o\ keeping in repair a sufficient horse
bridge over the river.
"Nov., 1634. X'oted that a sufficient cartwav be made to the mill at
Xeponset at the common charge if the charge exceeded not above 5 lbs.
"The first general Court held by delegates or representatives met May,
1634. when the Dorchester plantation sent Israel Stoughton. \Vm. Phelps
and Geo. Hull, the whole assembly consisting of twenty-four persons, rep-
resenting eight towns.
".\rrangements for burying grounds commenced with the following
vote Nov., 1633. Agreed that there be a decent burial place bounded by
Goodman Green and that shall be done by the raters and also a bier to
carry the dead on. Mar. 3rd. 1634. Ordered that a new burying place
last agreed upon shall be forthwith impaled with double rail pale five rods
square.
"The general Court voted Oct. 1, 1633, a tax of 400 Lbs. and the
assessment show the relative importance of the town at that period. The
proportions arc to Dorchester 80 lbs. Boston, Roxbury, or Cambridge,
Watertown and Charlestown 48 lbs. each. Sagus or Lynn 36 lbs. Salem
28 lbs. Medford 12 lbs. The rates of Dorchester and Cambridge are the
highest in the Colony.
"The following chronological items are from Winthrop :
"1631 Jan. a house burnt in Dorchester.
137 lEitmtsh Potti^roQ Ut Amerini
**1632 May. Dorchester men work on Boston Fort.
"1632 Aug. Xeponset Indians put in bilboas for assulting some Dor-
chester people in their houses after which Chickalobot beat
them.
"1633 July 24 a ship arrived from Weymouth, Dorset, with alx>ut eighty
passengers and twelve kin sat at Dorchester.
"The emigration to Conn, of a large portion of the first settlers of
Dorchester forms an important crisis in the affairs of the plantation. It
deprived it of nearly one-halt of its ix)pulation including two ministers, Mess.
Maverick and Warham, and a large part of intelligence and wealth which
accomoanied the first comers. This movement has been attributed to dif-
ferent causes, but it appears rather to have been produced by a concurrence
of sundry incidents than any one prominent motive. Cotton Mather in
reference to this subject says: "'Massachusetts soon became like a hive
overstocked with l)ees and many thought of swarming into new plan-
tations.' "
The whole Colony contained at this time but five or six thousand
people. Dorchester settlers were made acquainted with the rich bottom lands
of the Connecticut by Hall & Oldham in 1633. ^Ir. Oldham had traded
some with the Indians and had studied their language and customs and had
their confidence. He is said to have been the first white man who had
followed the Indian trail from the Bay Colonies to the valley of the
Connecticut. His reports of the fertility of the soil created a feeling of
unrest among the colonists of Dorchester which soon culminated in a be-
lief that a chanj2:e would be beneficial and in 1635-6 a strong company was
formed to make the venture, comprising about sixty men, women and chil-
dren, with their cows, horses and other live stock. Although the distance
was not great, their march was difficult and tedious until they reached the
Connecticut river, where they found comparatively good paths. Although
there is no definite knowledge of the course taken by the Dorchester emi-
grants, writers agree that the route was through the site on which South
Framingham now stands to Oxford, Sturbridge, Brimfield and Springfield,
the time occupied in making the journey being two weeks. Their pro-
visions and household ctTccts went by water. Windsor at this time was
also called Dorchester, and it was not until 1637 that the name was changed
bv the Commissioners* Court to Windsor, althouijh its historv as a town
began in 1633. At a convention of representatives of the towns of Windsor.
Hartford and Wethersfield it was decided that they would establish an in-
dependent republic and be governed by a WTitten constitution. This consti-
tution was prepared perhaps by Thomas Hooker of Hartford, and the new-
republic received the name of Connecticut. Eltweed Pomeroy was a citi-
zen of this Republic of Connecticut, and it was here at Windsor that his
sons Joshua and Joseph were bom.
A^rrrttirta brtmrrtt Eltmril Ijfomfrc^ atti Sattfr 3Hm
(ElfiB torttUig is to mtttuBB ti|at mlftrtaB i, EUniril Ifiomno^, I^abing of
latr taknt nti of Sattfr 3Hn corn anil otifrr tiroittBuitiB for ttuf family, anb
also iff Ifaiiisig iiaili for mr ofiirral irixtB^ for Hft vagmtnt tlr»rf of i Iio bg tlfiB
4
dtmaioQ^ at ti^t l^amtras Vatnilg 13B
Bttt, ali^ttatr attH ntakr oorr toi|0Ug attH f0rrofr m misrii lanb (at £B pn arrr)
at tl(f bnttom of tttg ntfaHoto. nrxt tiff grtat riitn. asaittat i|ia tttralUno. aa mill
liag Ifint utlrat i mno {ttatlji aatt IfiJtt. anb tolrat i aliall mot l|im astH bt bar I|im
JUurrlf 25, ICrO.
13 Ort 16B8. (»i0t»&)
The above document is the last writing: with signature of Eltweed
Pomerov that has been discovered. He was 84 vears old at this time and
it is said, almost totally blind. It is evident that he was preparing to
go to the home of his son. Medad, at Northampton, where he died, March.
1673, ac. 88.
i^eronli d^en^ ration
"ll^e will build us a house at the forks of the road,
And watch this race of men go by."
This second generation records the children of the four sons of Eltweed
Pomerov who lived to marry; no daughters lived to marry.
' 7 MEDAD POMEROY, (Eltzceed), bapt. at Windsor, Ct., Aug. 19.
1638; freeman May 31. 1661; settled at Northampton, Mass.. 1659;
m. (1) Nov. 21, 1661, Experience, dau. of Henry Woodward, of
Dorchester and Northampton, d. June 8, 1686; he m. (2) Sept. 8.
1686, Abigail, dau. of Elder John Strong, widow of Rev. Nathaniel
Chauncey, of Hatfield, d. April 15, 1704; he m. (3) Jan. 24. 1705,
Hannah, dau. of William and Joanna Warriner, of Springfield, and
widow of Thomas Noble of Westfield, b. Aug. 17, 1643; he d, Dec.
30, 1716.
3d gcfu Children, b. Northampton, by ist ivifc:
12 John Pomeroy, b. Aug. 24, 1662. -r
13 Joseph Pomeroy, b. Dec. 14, 1664; d. Feb. 17, 1665.
14 Mehitable Pomeroy, b. July 3, 1666. +
15 Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. May 30. 1669. +
- 16 Joseph Pomeroy, b. June 26, 1672. +
17 Med.xd Pomeroy, b. June 17, 1674; d. July 10, 1674.
18 Eliakim Pomeroy, b. Aug. 10, 1675; d. July 23, 1676.
19 Mindwell Pomeroy. b. July, 1677. +
20 Thankful Pomeroy. b. May 31, 1679. +
21 Mary Pomeroy, b. Feb. 15, 1684. +
22 John Pomeroy, b. March 20, 1686.
By 2d wife:
23 Samuel Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1687. +
Deacon Medad Pomeroy, when he arrived at Northampton, in 1659,
was welcomed by the authorities on account of his skill, knowledge of
139 tLiit ^ttotdi (Sntrratiott
which had preceded him, and granted a chest of tools and some land. He
was twenty-one years of age, with a robust constitution, master of an
excellent trade, that of general smithing, acquired from his father, but
with few tools. The town was but five years settled, inhabitants were scarce,
and every accession to the number, especially a skilled gun-smith, was
heartily welcomed, although he was not, we have reason to believe, the first
blacksmith who came to Northampton. John Webb preceded him, bringing
a full complement of tools. It may be reasonably conjectured that Medad
Pomeroy went to work for Webb, and soon proved by his skill, ability
and industrv that he was a desirable inhabitant, and a man worthv of
encouragement. In August, 1660, the following resolve was passed : **John
Webb's tools that Medad Pomeroy shall have on terms: A pair of bel-
lows, an anvil, a hand hammer, one hammer, three pairs of tongs, a beak
iron, a slice, a nailing stake, two chisels, one nailing hammer.'' The terms
on which the tools were granted are not stated. * * * -Qn the 13th Dec.
1664. at a legal town meeting the town gave Medad Pomeroy the tools
they had of John Webb, as loni:: as he lives in the town, but if he removes
out of the town he is then to leave them to the town; but in case he dies
in the town the tools are to belong to i\is estate, provided he do the town
work." In 1670 it was voted to give him the "Smith's tools that he had
of the town in his hand by a clear vote without any condition."
"In 1675, Medad Pomeroy was chosen Selectman, to which position
he was re-elected twenty-seven times. He was first chosen Deputy in
1677, and was six times re-elected to that important position, his last service
being in 1692. He was chosen County Treasurer in 1698, and was a
number of times re-elected to that office, until the vear of his death. It
appears that in some years he held not less than six important town offices
at the same time. He not only held various judicial offices, but was em-
ployed in the settlement of estates, and his record as a public officer was
both honorable and enterprising.
**It has been intimated that he was a lawyer. This may be correct,
though it is hardly probable that he had studied law. and there is no evidence
that he ever practiced at the bar. But there is evidence that he had a keen,
judicial mind, and that he comprehended intuitively the salient points of
any cause which came before him in his manifold duties. As we have
said, he held various judicial offices, and was frequently employed in the
settlement of estates. In 1678 he was appointed Clerk of the Writs
(Register of Deeds) for Xorthampton by the Court of Sessions, and held
that office till near the close of his life. In 1684 he was commissioned by
the same court 'to tend small causes.' Several years after, and for a
number of years in succession, he served as one of the Associate Justices
for the County of Hampshire."
Medad Pomeroy's home-lot, granted by the town, was situated in the
vicinity of Bridge Street Cemetery, but it is doubtful whether he ever
occupied this lot. He bought an acre on Meeting-House Hill, where he
resided till his death, Dec. 30, 1716. His homestead, which eventuallv
consisted of twelve acres in the heart of the settlement, is remarkable for
the number born upon it in the line of Deacon Medad having
military service and titles, at least nine, namely: Hon. Ebenezcr, Major
(AtmoioQ^ of tl^p Potttfrog J^atntlQ 140
of Infantry; Captain John Pomeroy, Ensign Josiah Pomeroy. Captain
Joseph Pomeroy. General Scth Pomeroy, Lieut. Daniel Poniemy. (killed at
Lake Georjj^e), Major Daniel Pomeroy (his son). Captain Elisha Pomeroy,
and Colonel Thomas Pomeroy. He also took an honorable part in the
engajrement at Turner's Falls, May 19, 1676.
**Deacon Medad Pomeroy was a man of large estate: one of the first
men in the town ; a gun-smith like his father : a leader of men also like his
father; with the .same strong character, both being men of liberal and inde-
pendent minds, determined to keep their civil and religious liberty. Puritans
alwavs."
"He was Deputv to the General Court manv vears. having been chosen
in 1677, re-elected in 1683, 1684, 1685, 1686. 'l6W, and 1692. * * *"
— Sylvester Judd.
In 1686 he accumulated considerable real estate in different parts of
the town, and his son, Ebenezer Pomerov. owned twelve acres in the vcrv
a •
center of the village, adjoining the first acre bought of Thomas Salmon.
having received all but three and a half acres fr«)m his father by deed. He
was a man of strong natural common sense, rough anrj rugged in manner
and expression, as were the majority of his contemporaries, but just in all
his dealings, and conscientious in the discharge of every duty. A strong
will and a dominating presence made him a leader in a community where
tenacity of purpose, physical endurance, and acutencss of intellect were the
chief characteristics. To him as much as to any other among the early
settlers is the town indebted for the efficient establishment of the founda-
tions of that thrift and prosperity, and those Christian and educational privi-
leges that have continued for two hundred and sixty years to bless and
enrich the communitv.
*'He had great respect and love for his parents, and in 1672 brought
his aged father from Windsor to Xorthampton, took him into his own
family and amply provided for him during the rest of his life. He was
indued with strong religious principles, was chosen deacon of the church
in 1675, and became one of its strongest supporters. At the time of his
death it was said in an obituary that Xorthampton had been deprived of
one of its most prominent and influential citizens. Full of years, honored
and respected, he had been identified more than any other citizen then
living with the earlier history of the place. This son of Eltweed Pomeroy
was descended from a long line of English ancestry, dating back in un-
broken succession to the time of William the Conqueror."
Experience W'oodward, his wife and the mother of eleven children.
was daughter of Henry Woodward, who came in 1635 with Rev. Richarvl
Mather, united with the church at Dorchester in 1639, freeman Mav 10.
1643, and with wife Elizabeth sold land in 1659, and went to Xorthampton
with Clark and Cunliffe. At its formation, Trumbull says, he was Quarter-
master of the Hampshire Troop in 1663. He was accidentally killed at the
upper corn mill in 1685. He was frequently Commissioner and also Select-
man. Mr. Clap says he was a physician, but that there is no indication
that such was the case. The Register of Childwell Parish, England, records
his baptism as 22 March 1607, son of Thomas Woodward of North Woolton,
Countv Lancashire, England, Esq., and Elizabeth Tynen, who were marrie<l
141 ^i^t 0rrond dtmrBtlan
23 May 1592. She died 13 Aug. 1690. Their other children were: Freedom,
who married Jedediah Strong; Thankful, who married Capt. John Taylor:
and John, who married Ann Dewey, daughter of Thomas of Windsor.
8 CALED POMEROY. (Elmrcd). bap. at Windsor. March 6. 1641;
m. March 8, 1665. Ilepzibah Baker, b. ^^ay 10. 1646, dau. of Jeffrey
Baker and Joan Rockwell, of Windsor. Conn. He was one of the
original settlers of Xorthampton. was made freeman in 1663, had
home lot in section 6. subscribed three pounds of flax to the Harvard
College fund : took part in the Falls Fight. May 19. 1676. In 1686
he sold his place and moved to Southampton or Easthampton. Mass.,
and is ancestor of all the Pomeroys of those places, except Captain
Lemuel Pomeroy : lie was identified with the town from the first
and wa*? still active in promoting the welfare of the place as a promi-
nent and inlhieniial citizen up to the time of his death, Xov. 18,
1691. a victim to the epidemic of fever and ague prevalent at the
time.
jid i^cji. Children, h. Xorthampton, except first and tenth:
24 [iiii'Zii: \n P<»Mi:i<ov. b. Windsor, July 27. \CM)6: d. young at North-
ampton.
25 Samlkl Pomkrov. b. May 29. 1660. 4-
26 Aiiic.AiL Pomi:rov, b. Oct. 20. 1671. -r
27 Hepziuah Pomf.rov. b. Jan. 1*>, \(J^: m. Jan. 25, 1705, Walter Lee
of Westfield : his estate was settled in 1709.
28 Edexezer Pomerov. b. March 14. 1674; d. Sept. 12, 1699.
29 Cai.eh I'omerov. b. May 3, 1677: d. April. 16W.
30 Eldad Pomerov. b. Dec. 6. 1679. +
31 Haxnah Pomerov. b. Julv 4, 1682. -^
i2 Mercy Pomerov. b. Sept. '20. 1684. +
33 Sarah Pomerov. b. Southampton. Aug. 6, U^7 : m. June 21, 1709,
Deliverance Church: m. (2) Dec. 12. 1721. Xoah Wright.
An old document recites that Caleb received a grant of land from his
father Eltweed on his entering into marriage with Ilepzibah Baker, a part
of a child's portion at present one acre of land : that he also engaged the
remaining portion of land in that close for Caleb at his death : but now.
Whereas. Caleb bought a couple of oxen of his father and was to pay his
father £18 for them in work, as he needed it yearly, in six years, and he
having paid little of it, and now going to Xorthampton, his father is ne-
cessitated to sell the acre of land to John Grant for £7, and promises that
the £7 shall go for the oxen or land : if he pays for the oxen he will make
good the land sold with an acre as good at his death.
''This Deed or Instrument made this Twentv ninth of Mav,
i686: annoq ^^^ Primo Regni Jacobi Secundi : Witnesseth: That Caleb
Pumery of Xorthampton in the County of Hampshire of the Massa-
chusetts Bay in Xew England of his own free will and with y® consent
and approbation of Hepzibar Pumery his Beloved wife, for and in con-
sideration of Three Score Pounds already Received by Thomas Shelding,
Cordwainer, of the same Town County & Colony In Xew England, for
which he Doth fully acquitt and Discharge S^ Shelding & by these
(AemoioQ^ of ti^f Pom^rog J^amilg 142
presents cloth give arrant bari;;ain Sell Alienate and hatli i^iven granted
alienated Bargained Sold & firmly fully absolutely and clearly made
over unto the afors^ Shelding his heirs and Successors a certain Parcell
of Land Sometime belonging unto Deacon Hanchet, with the houso
Barns Gardens Tools Orchard thereto belonging Which land lieth in
Xorthampton and is Tlius Bounded: By the highway westerly: by the
Meadow fence Easterly by land sometime Belonging to George Lankton
northerly : and by the land at John Stebbins Deceased Southerly : \^'on-
taining two acres and half more or less: all «»f wliich houseing and lands
according to the butments and bounds or by what bounds soever bountled
or name called The above s^ Caleb Pumery doth hereby give bargain Sell
alienate confirm and make over: & by these presents hath f(^r himself
his heirs executors & administrators given granted Bargained Sold
c'lienated and firmly freely absolutely & Clearly confirmed and passed
over unto the aboves<i Thomas Shelding his heirs administrators execu-
• ors & assigns;
To Haze and To Hold possess & enjoy f|uietly and Peaceably and by
vertue of These presents Shall fnMu time to time & at all limes here-
after quietly & peaceably hold (Kcupie Pt»ssess & enjoy the <ame. full
& clear and Clearly acquitted & Discharged of & from all and all manner
of formes & other gifts grants bargaines Sales and leases Judgments
executions mortgages Jointers Doweries Entailes fcrfeitures Titles of
inheritance and from all and everv other Incumbrance whats(^ever had
made committed Done or Suffered to be Done at anv time Whatsoever,
hereby Giveing unto the afores^ Tho-mas Shelding for himself his heirs
& Successors quiet and peaceable Possession of the afores<i houseings
& land of every Part & Parcel Thereof, with all Privilidges benefits
profits advantages commonages Commodities Conveniences Rights lib-
erties freedom immunities Town Rights Divisions SubDivisions Heredit-
aments Emoluments ways Passages water way courses Trees timber
Stones and all or any other appurtenance Thereto Belonging; hereby
Alsoe soe yielding Renouncing Relinquishing Quit Claiming Discharging
and Delivering up unto the s<i Shelding his heirs & Successors all his
Right title priviledge Claims & Interest in or unto the afors<i land and
housing & all & singular the premises and particulars abov^ mentioned &
they do Covenant Promise & Testifie to and with the s^ Shelding that at
the time of their .Subscribing to and Sealing of this Instrument that they
were the true Real Sole & iProper owners of the premises and at That
Time Stood lawfully Seized and possessed of the same, and had in them-
selves had full power and lawfull authority to Sell Grant Convey & assure
the same, as a good Perfect & absolute Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple
without any manner of Condition Revertion or limitation Soe as to alter
change Defeate or any way to make void the same: And that they
will and Shall from time to time and at all times here after Defend
Warrant and maintain the same to & against all & Every Person laying
lawful claim to it or any part thereof; and they Doe farther engage to
Deliver up unto S<^ Shelding all such Deeds & writings Coppies grants
Scripts or Transcripts which they have in their Custody Particularly re-
lating to y® premises hereby Declaring The above s^ houseing and land
143 lEift 0prond dttitmtlan
to be the True Real & proper estate of the above s<i Shelding his heirs
executors administrators & assigns the which he or they may record
or enroll to Them Selves or make over bv Deed or Will to anv other Per-
son whomsoever ; and for the assurance and confirmation of the premises ;
They Do farther Engage to Do or Cause to be Done Such act or acts in
law as s<i Shelding or his heirs Shall Reasonably Desire or Demand
at his or their own proper Cost or Charge, and In Testimony of Their
Consent to the premises They have here unto set their hands and
Seales the day and year above s<l.
'"Caleb Pumery & Scale
**Hepzibah Pumery & Sealc
"Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us:
(Test) "Joseph Hawley
"Enos Kingsley
"Hepzibah the Relic of Caleb Pumery Deceased & Samuel Pumery
his son appeared in this Court being Impowered by s^ Court as Admin-
istrators to the deceaseds Estate and s<i Hepzibah in her own Capacitie
also acknowledged this Instrument to be their Act & Deed and the act
of her late husband and her act, also relinquishing all her Right in the
premises to s^ Shelding before the Court in Northampton: March :29:
1692:
(Attests) **Samuel Partridge, Clerk
"On the 2gth day of May:i7i7: This Deed was received and was
then Here Registered from the Original.
"John Pynchon, Regt/'
After his removal to Southampton Caleb Pomeroy acquired large
tracts of land in that region, and many localities of interest were named for
him, as Pomerov Mountain. Pomerov Ford and Pomerov Meadows. In
certain natural aptitudes Caleb Pomeroy excelled, but his force, it is said,
was toward nature rather than object, and this trait has been projected into
his descendants in strong measure. As a rule we find them following the
life of the farmer, even to the tenth generation.
10 JOSHUA POMEROY, (Eltu'ced), bap. at Windsor, Nov. 22, 1646;
m. (1) Aug. 20, 1672, Elizabeth Lyman, b. Windsor, dau. of Richard
Lvman and Hepizibah Ford (dau. of Thomas Ford) of Windsor,
d.' March 22. 1676: he m. (2) Jan. 9, 1677, Abigail Cooke, b. 1660,
dau. of Nathaniel Cook of Windsor; he was among the early set-
tlers of Northampton; gave four pounds of flax (4s) to Harvard
College; he removed to Deerfield, where he settled, and on March
30, 1682, there was made to him a grant of "seven cow commons,'*
and a four-acre lot on Green River. In 1686, he built thereon the
first house in Greenfield. He was on the first board of Selectmen,
and prominent in the aflfairs of the settlement. He d. at Deerfield,
Oct. 16, 1689, and his widow, Abigail, m. (2) about 1691, David
Hoyt of Deerfield. Both were captured by Indians, Feb. 29, 1704.
Mr. Hoyt was starved to death, but his wife was redeemed, and m.
(3) Nathaniel Rice of Wallingford, Conn.
(SFttraloQg of tl|F Pomrrog IFamtlg 144
jrf .ift'//. Children by rst icife, b. Xorthampton:
34 John Pomerov. b. May 2. 1674: d. Xov. 20, 1674.
35 JosHi'A Pomerov, b. Sept. 24. 1675. +
Children by 2d Zi'ifc, b. Dccrncld:
36 Ei.iZADETH Pomerov. 1). 1677: d. Xov. 16, 1688.
i7 Xatmaniel Pomerov. b. March 9. 16«<^0: killed at PonicrovV Island
Ford. July 16. 16'>8, when in ])ursiiit of a party of Indians who had
captured two boys the day before at Hatfield. The pursuing: j^arty
reached the location of the present town of X'ernon. \'t., on horses
and lay in wait upon the river hank. When the Indians appeared « n
the opposite side of the strenni. the colonists o])ened fire uptjn them.
The Indians and one of the hoys jumped into the river and irained the
shore. Believinti" that the sava.i::es were about to kill the lad. fire was
again opened, the enemy seekinir cover. The boy nianacred to join
his companion in the can<»e. and both succeeded in crossing: the river
in safety, but one of the Indians who attempted to intercept them
was shot. Five or six of the colonists then embarked in the canue
in order to gain possession of the other one, which had lod^s^ed on
Pomerov Island, a little distance dmvn the stream. The Indians
concealed on the opposite bank, fired upon them when they ap-
proached, killinis: Xathaniel Pomeroy of Deerfield, who was the last
soldier that fell in this war. The Indians were of the tribe Pocum-
tucks.
38 Abigail Pomeroy. b. July 23. 1682: d. Xov. 8. 1688.
39 Mary Pomeroy. b. March 5, 1685.
40 John Pomerov, b. March 27. lo87: d. June 3, 1691.
41 Lydia Pomeroy, b. March 5, 1689: captured by Indians at Deer-
field, Feb. 29, 1704, but redeemed: m. Xathaniel Pender of Westfield.
11 JOSEPH POMEROY, (Elticccd), bap. at Windsor, June 20,
1652; m. June 26, 1677, Hannah Lyman, b. July 20, 1660. d. Oct. 11,
1736, dau. of Richard Lyman and Hepzibah Ford (dau. of Thomas
Ford) and sister of Joshua Pomeroy's wife, Elizabeth Lyman. He
was also one of the early settlers of Xorthampton, and is credited
to that town as a soldier in King William's war, having served at
intervals between 1688 and 1698. It is said that he lived in West-
field. Mass.. and Lebanon, Conn., and in 1703 removed to Colchester,
and about 1715 he removed to Boston, locating near Corn-hill. He d.
Sept. 22, 1734 (or 1739).
3d gen. Children:
42 Joseph Pomeroy. b. Sept. 1, 1678: d. Xov. 26. 1678.
43 Haxnah Pomeroy. b. Dec. 13. 1679; d. Jan. 7, 1680.
44 Elizabeth Pomeroy. b. Feb. 7, 1681 ; d. Aug. 4, 1683.
45 Abigail Pomeroy, b. Jan. 25, 1683. +
46 Joseph Pomeroy, b. and d. Sept., 1685.
47 Medad Pomeroy, b. Xov. 4, 1686; lived in Colchester, and d. there
Oct. 4, 1740.
48 John Pomeroy, b. July 11, 1688; d. Aug. 2, 1688.
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49 Sarah Pomeroy, b. Feb. 3, 1690. +
50 Hannah Pomerov, b. April 2, 1694; d. before 1698.
51 Joseph Pomerov. b. Dec. 20, 1695. +
52 Hannah Pomeroy. b. April 22. 1698. +
53 XoAH Pomerov. b. at Windsor, May 19, 1700. +
Joseph Pomeroy removed to Colchester very early in the settlement
of that town, and was one of the original proprietors. He had a division
or a home lot, as it is sometimes spoken of, in the first allotment in 1701,
on the hill "Chemantups" ( a hill in the north part of the town, so called by
the Indians from its resemblance in shape to a human skull), and probably
lived there.
In 1703 he was appointed, together with Ebenezer Coleman, a com-
mittee to eject at their sole expense, certain trespassers "by force if nec-
essary," who were taking up land in a place called Pangwonk, (south and
west of Gardner's Lake), under the authority of one Major Palmer, who
claimed to have derived a title to certain lands there from an Indian, one
Captain Sanapc. They were finally successful in doing this, and for their
services the proprietors granted them each one hundred acres of the land
in dispute. Joseph Pomeroy was a man of prominence in town aflFairs.
We find him an officer during the whole time covered by his residence
here. In 1703 he was appointed to run the town lines between this and
other towns. In 1708 he was chosen constable, collector and lister. We
find his name among a list of fifty-two who were proprietors of the town
in 1713; also, in this year we find that he sold two farms in Colchester;
and also, the following entry in the records:
"Dec. 14, 1713. To ball' all town 'Counts, £00 13 3."
Probably this was in settlement of his accounts with the town as a
Collector, etc., which closes his connection with the town ot Colchester, as
far as we can ascertain, as his name after that disappears from the records.
The Colchester records has the following: "The General Court. Oct.
17, 1703, having been petitioned, granted to the inhabitants of Colchester
liberty to imbody themselves into church estate and to call and settle an
orthodox minister of ye Gospel among them with the advice and c<insent of
neighboring churches." He was one of the earliest members of this church.
In connection witli his church historv, we find in Stiles* Historv of
Windsor, a letter dated 2 April 1711, written by him to Nathaniel Loomis
of Colchester, in which he says: "I being heare at Windsor to see whether
Mr. Thomas Elsworth would come and compleate the Bargain which he
and you made concerning ye finishing of our meeting-house, and he says
yt he is no ways concerned, having agreed with you to finish the work,
which I know to be so, and your not coming to do it makes some trouble
amongst us," and urges him to come and attend to the matter, threatening
if he does not that "we shall speedily put you to trouble about it;" etc.
In 1728 we find in the Boston town records that Joseph Pomeroy was
chosen clerk of the markets. * * * In 1730, that he was chosen and
sworn as Constable of Boston. * * * In 1733, that he paid a tax of 8s
for repairs to pump in the Towns Ground, Corn-Hill, Boston.
"Give out from among you three men from
each tribe; and I will send them, and they shall
rise, and go through the land, and describe it
in accordance to the inheritance of them."
— Joshua.
12 JOHN POMEROY. (Mcdad, Eltzcccd). b. Aug. 24, 1662, Xorth-
anipton, Mass.: m. April, 30. 1684, Mindwcll, dau. of Isaac Shel-
don and Mary Woodford, b. Feb. 24, 1666; he d. at Northampton.
June 23, 1686; she m. (2) April 19, 1687, John Lyman, son of John
and Dorcas; settled in Durham, Conn.: d. there April 8, 1735.
4th gen. Children, b, Northampton:
54 Experience Pomeroy, b. Oct. 8, 1685. +
55 John Pomeroy, (posthumous son), b. Jan., 1687.
14 MEHITABLE POMEROY, (Mcdad, Eltwccd), b. Northampton.
July 3, 1666; m. Nov. 4, 1686. Lieut. John Kin.cf, Jr.. b. July 5, 1657,
Northampton, d. 1702, son of John King and Sarah Holton; she d.
Nov. 8, 1755. John King was chosen Ensign of the Northampton com-
pany of minute-men recommended by the First Provincial Congress,
previous to which he had been concerned in **Father Rale's war."
He was with the deer-hunting party, consisting of Daniel Pomeroy.
Seth Lyman and Major Allen, at the time the latter was shot by
Scth Lyman, who in the snowy atmosphere mistook him for a deer.
This caused great excitement, and Mr. Lyman was brought before
the Court of General Sessions after the death of Major Allen. He
pleaded not guilty but was bound over in the sum of £10,000 to
the Supreme Court for trial. John King and Daniel Pomeroy were
recognized in the sum of £100 each lo appear as witnesses. Lyman was
tried and acquitted. John King served in the Revolution as Lieuten-
ant of a company of minute-men in 1777, and took part against the
Ely insurrection.
4th gen. Children, b. Northampton:
56 Mehitable King, b. March 31, 1690: m. April 13, 1712, Eliakim,
son of Thomas, Jr., and Mary (Stebbins) Strong.
57 Experience King, b. April 17, 1693: m. Aug. 16. 1716. Col. Timothy
Dwight, b. at Hartford, Conn., Oct. 19, 1694. son of Nathaniel and
Mehitable (Partridge) Dwight: a lawyer and prominent in North-
ampton affairs ; for upward of twenty years succeeding the incorpora-
tion of Southampton as a district. Northampton was represented
in the General Court by only three different persons, Col. Timothy
Dwight being the representative for eight years in succession, from
1758 to 1765. He served his town in Father Rale*s war, and after
the fall of Louisbourg.
58 Medad King, b. March 26, 1699; m. Oct. 31, 1732, Rebecca, dau.
of Nathaniel and Rebecca Strong, b. Dec. 7, 1731.
59 Catherine King, b. Aug. 17, 1701: m. (1) Nov. 17, 1724, James
147 ^ifixh dtmrunan - Mthuh
Heacock, who d. June 7. 1725; m. (2) May 25, 1730, Xathaniel
Phelps.
60 John King, b. April 1, 1704: m. April 17, 1735, Abigail, dau. of
Jonathan Root : he d. April 5, 1745.
61 Twin, b. June 1, 1706: died soon.
62 Twin, b. and d. same.
63 Thankful King. b. Feb. 18, 1709; d. March 7, 170/.
15 HON. MAJOR ECEXEZER POMEROY, (Mcdad, Elhvccd). h.
^^av 30, 1660; m. cn May 4, 1601, Hannah, dau. of Ebenezer and
Hannah CClapp) Strong:, b. Oct. 7. 1660. d. Xov. 20, 1691: he m.
(2) Dec. 26, 1602. Sarah, dau. of Capt. John and Sarah (Holton)
Kino:.* h. Mav 3. 1671. d. Xov. 3. 1747: he d. Tan. 27. 1754. He was
prominent in civil and military affairs, as Captain. Major. Commis-
sioner to meet with the Indian> at Albanv in 1724, member of Her
Majesty's Council of the Province (Anne. dau. of James II.), etc.;
and his duties as Hi^h Sheriff were manifold. He was an active
and steadfast Christian and a deacon in the church.
4tJi gen, CliiUlrcn. b. Xorthainpton:
64 Sarah Pomeroy. b. Xov. 2i. 1693; d. young.
65 John Pomerov. b. April 1. 1695. "^
66 Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. Sept. 18. 1697. +
67 Sarah Pomeroy. b. Sept. 5. 1700. +
68 Simeon Pomeroy, b. Feb. 21. 1702: drowned in the Connecticut
river while returning: from an expedition ap:ainst Indians, .\pril 24.
1725. He was with a lari^fe scoutinp: party toward the frontiers of
C^anada under command of Capt. Thomas Wells, of Deerfield, and
the canoe in which he was crossin.ij capsized near the mouth of
Miller's river: he was a soldier and twcntv-iwo vears of age.
60 h.siAH PoMKK(A'. b. Doc. 20. 1703. -^-
70 Sktii PoMKkev, h. May 20. 1706. -^
71 Daniel Pomeroy. b. ilarch 27, 1700. 4-
72 TiiANKFii, Pomeroy, b. Julv 12, 1713. -»-
"Hon. Ebenezer Pomeroy, Escj., as he is desii^nated on the records, was
one of the leadini:; citizens of Xorthampton. He was a gunsmith and a man
of eneni:y and ability. During Queen Anne's war with Canada, in 1711,
among the eighteen companies furnished by Massachusetts, one company
was from Hampshire county, of which Ebenezer Pomeroy was in command,
with a commission as Captain. This company was under pay from June
2. to Oct. 26. 1711. The pay roll amounted to £367.2,10, Init the muster
roll of the company has not been preserved. The several expeditions against
Canada during this war cost Massachusetts in the aggregate about i80,000.
He engaged also in King William's war at times between 1688 and 1698;
*John King, "The Puritan," father of Sarah, came from England about
1645, at the age of sixteen years; m. Nov. IS, 1658, Sarah Holton; they had
twelve children. William Holton and his wife Sarah, (parents of Sarah who
married John King) came in the ship "Francis** in 1634, and settled in North-
ampton in 1655; they had eight children. Sarah Holton married John King
Nov. 18. 1656, Northampton. William Holton died Aug. 12, 1691.
(ftrnralogg of tl|p Pont^roif j^amtlg 148
his services in Queen Anne's war being at intervals between 1704 and
1713. Whether in recomiiiij^n of tliis niilitarv service, or for some other
.Q:ood and sufficient reason not named, he was p^ranted in 1716. a larg^e
tract of land between Xorthampton and Sprinj^field. The grant comprised*
"All the remaining part of the Half mile Square: r»etween us and Spring-
held. Saving what was Before Granted to Capt. John Taylor and his two
>ons. viz. : Thomas and Samuel." The grant to (apt. Taylor and his tw« •
^ons was eighty acres, near Whiteloaf brook, which was afterward in the
town of Southampton. This proj)erty descended to Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy.
son of General Seth. and grandson of Ebenezer, who settled in Southampton
in 1776.
(^n June 27, 1735. Ebenezer Pomeroy received an api)ointment from
England as a justice-of-the-peace: and again <^n June 23. 1743. "" * *
Extracts from Xorthampton records say: "Several lawsuits residted from
the Hatfield boundary question. Xorthampton being the defendant on this
occasion." That town appointed Ebenezer Pomeroy attorney with **full
power to Constitute one or more attorneys under him as he shall see meet."
* * * **At the same time the town voted that the Three Guns which were
delivered to the three Ca])tains (undoubtedly Captain Preserved Smith,
John Parsons, and Ebenezer Pomeroy). that did belong to the Towne that
said guns should be sold and that Ebenezer Pomeroy shoidd be supplied
with money out of the effects of said gims for going to Boston And oblig-
ing Layers and Insident Charges that should be expended in such case."
* * * In 1721 he was elected one of the three trustees to distribute loans
in the towns, with the provision that '*the parties give satisfactory security."
L'nder date of June 11, 1745. Ebenezer Pomeroy writes to his son.
Major .Seth, then on the war expedition to Louisbourg: **I would inform
you and your soldiers that God in his Providence has stirred up a remark-
able spirit of prayer in this city, for victory in this grand expedition and I
hear also throughout the land, for in this town the parents and some other
relatives of those gone in the expedition, have constantly set apart some time
every week to pray to God for success in this grand affair and we have good
reason to believe that it hath not been in vain : for God hath in a remark-
able manner smiled upon the fleet and army."
He inherited from his father. Deacon Medad Pomerov, bv deed in
1709, the home lot. and the adjoining land, about nine acres in all. The
deed conveyed the homestead "with houses, barns, shops, water courses
and all appurtenances.'* The water courses refer to an aqueduct supplying
the place with water, the pipes or logs extending to a reservoir on a lot on
Elm street, afterwards the property of Elijah Clark.
16 CAPT. JOSEPH POMEROY, (Mcdad, Elhcccd). b. Jime 26,
1672, Northampton, Mass.; m. Nov. 29, 1692, Hannah.* dau. of
*In the settlement of the estate of Richard Seymour, recorded in Hartford
probate records, vol. iii, 23, 24, 110, and In the settlement of the estate of
Hannah, Vidow of Richard Seymour, vol. iii, p. 193, their daughter Hannah
is mentioned as the wife of Joseph Pomeroy. Richard Seymour, who came in
1636, settled in Hartford. He is supposed to be son of Capt. Richard Seymour
149 tLl^h dtmrutum - Mthoih
Richard (Richard) Seymour and Hannah Woodruff. Savage, in
his historv, savs that Richard Scvmour married Hannah Hawkins,
daughter of Anthony Hawkins and his second wife, *'widow Ann
(Wells) Thompson, and that Ann Wells was daughter of Governor
Wells of Connecticut/' In 1699 Joseph removed from Northampton
to SuflSeld, Conn., which was settled by a colony from Massachusetts,
under whose protection it remained until 1752, when it became a
part of Connecticut. He was a metal worker like his father and
jS^rand father, and held manv offices of trust; he d. at Suffield. Dec.
16, 1712; his widow mar. (2) Oct. 28, 1713, Josiah Hale of West-
field, bp. Jan. 14, 1683 (evidently not in infancy), d. July 10. 1774;
she d. at Springfield about 1727-S. Joseph Pomeroy was a cor-
poral in the Northampton company during the French and Indian
war of KinjT William and took part in the Indian fight at Deerfield.
Sept. 16. 1696. He was the first of the name to settle in Suffield,
Conn., and was the ancestor of nearly all of the name in that region.
4th ,i:t'«. Children, first two b. in Korthampton, others in Suffield:
73 Han.vau Pomeroy. b. Northampton, June 9, 1694; d. Aug. 19, 1694.
74 Medad Pomeroy, b. Northampton, July 18, 1695. +
75 Eliakim Pomeroy, b. Nov. 4. 1697; d. Nov. 10, 1711.
76 Hannah Pomeroy, h. April 12, 1700, +
77 Joseph Pomeroy, b. July 15, 1702. +
78 Benjamin Pomeroy, b. Nov. 11, 1704. +
79 Nathaniel Pomeroy, b. Jan. 23, 1706. +
80 Noah Pomeroy, b. Oct. 20, 1709. +
81 Eliakim Pomeroy, b. Nov. 10. 1711.
(From Suffield Records, Old Book. />. 109.)
"At a general town meeting. March 7. 1698. it was agreed and voted:
Thirdlv, to give to Joseph Pomeroy for inheritance forty acres of land ;
but with this provisal, on these conditions: That said Pomeroy settle, abide,
and remain in the Town for the space or full term of seven years; and dur-
ing said term to follow his trade for the benefit of the town. May it please
the Lord to bless him with life, health and strength soe to doe."
(From Su/field Land Records.)
"His house-lot was near or part of the land now owned by the heirs
of Capt. Seth King, and contained five acres. The remainder of his forty
acres was laid out on Chestnut, northerly from John Nooney's house on
the same hill. His house-lot was on the west side of Countrv road, north-
who, in tbe expedition of Lord Popham to found a colony on the coast of Maine,
was the first to spread the Gospel to the Indians of this country.
The Journal of American History, 1st Number, 1912, presents photographic
evidence, including the Seymour Bishop Bible, (probably the Bible brought over
by Capt. Richard Seymour with the expedition of Lord Popham), to prove
that Richard Seymour of Hartford, Conn., 1636, was a grandson of Sir Edward
Seymour, (2d Seymour Baron of Berry Pomeroy and wife Dorothy Killigrew).
It is a remarkable coincidence that Hannah, granddaughter of Capt. Richard
Seymour, the missionary among the Indians, should unite the destinies of the
Pomeroy and Seymour families in America by her marriage with Joseph, grand-
son of Eltweed Pomeroy.
dtmala^^ of tl;» Pont^rog J^amtlg 150
eriy from High Street." His homestead was sold in 1715, to John Devotion,
who was formerly of Weathersfield, Conn.
"On Oct. 4, 1699, he was appointed on committee to build a meeting-
house. * * * March 3, 1700, he was appointed fence viewer and later
surveyor of highways.
"Corporal Joseph Pomeroy appointed pound-keeper, brander, etc. Also,
to see that the law was executed against offenders respecting swine going
unyoked; also, town hrander and assessor. March 12, 1708-9." It appears
that about this time there was further trouble with the Indians, and we find
him, March 13, 1709-10 promoted to Sergeant. * * * March 12, 1710-11,
at a town meeting of freeholders and others for choice of officers to places
of trust, Joseph Pomeroy was chosen selectman and assessor. * * * •'He
was Selectman and often held other town offices. At the time of his death
he was a Captain, a high rank in those times. He died Dec. 16, 1712. ae.
44 years. Letters of administration were granted to Hannah, his widow,
and Ebcnezer Pomerov of Northampton, (his brother) : inventory taken
1713."
In vol. C. 77, Land Records of Springfield. ^Mass., we find that
"Ebenezer Pumry of Xorthampton. and Hannah Pumry, alias Hannah Hale,
of Suffield, with the consent of her husband, [osiah Hale, as administrators
of the estate of Joseph Pumry, deceased, of Suffield. sell a portion of his
estate to pay debts. May 18, 1715." In conjunction with the above, the
following is significant : **Josiah Hale of Suffield conveys to Jacob Lawton
of Suffield all right in land in west part of township of Westfield, granted
by the General Court to proprietors of the town of Suffield, as an equiva-
lent for land taken for said town by late establishment, my 40-acre grant,
originally made to John Millington, late of Suffield : also one-eighth part
of that which mav belone to the heirs of mv father, Timothv Hale ; and
also, my right as heir to the estate of iiiv brother John Hale, deceased.
March 6, 1733."
As there is no later evidence that Josiah Hale and Hannah (Seymour-
Pomeroy) Hale were resident at Westfield, and no probate records in
Northampton of any settlement of the estate of Josiah and Hannah
(Pomeroy) Hale, and in view of the apparent sale of all his lands in West-
field, we are constrained to believe that they did not reside in Westfield
at the time of Hannah (Seymour- Pomeroy) Hale's death, but in the town
of Springfield.
19 MINDWELL POMEROY, {Mcdad, Eltiveed), b. July, 1677.
Northampton; m. June 3, 1696, Joseph King, b. May 8, 1673: she
d. Nov. 21, 1732: he. m. (2) Aug. 30, 1733, Mindwell Porter, s. p.;
he. d. Dec. 3, 1734.
4th gen. Children:
82 Sarah King, b. March 10. 1697; m. Aug. 18, 1718, James Bunce.
83 Esther King, b. Jan. 9, 1700; d. young.
84 Eunice King, b. March 12, 1703; m. Benjamin Alford, Jr.
85 Mindwell King, b. March 15, 1705; m. 1736. Jonathan Bascom.
86 Phineas King, b. Feb. 9, 1707.
87 Joseph King. b. Nov. 24. 1709.
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88 Thankful King. b. Feb. 9, 1712; m. 1736, Stephen Sheldon.
89 Simeon King, b. Oct. 28. 1714.
20 THANKFUL POMEROY. (Mcdad, Eltwecd), b. May 31, 1679,
Northampton: m. Oct. 27. 1698, Lieut. Benjamin Lyman, b. North-
ampton, Aug. 10, 1674, d. Oct. 14, 1723, son of Lieut. John Lyman
and Dorcas Phunb. He was an enterprising man and left an es-
tate free from debt of il,147, and stock in shop valued at £198; he
was a farmer and stock raiser, fattening cattle for the market; he
owned a negro slave called Nancy who was appraised at £40. Thank-
ful m. (2) 1726, Ensign Nathaniel Lewis of Farmington, Conn.;
she d. Sept. 18, 1773. Northampton.
4tli gen. CliildrCH by ist marriage:
*X) Joseph Lyman, b. Aug. 22, W)9: m. 1727, Abigail Lewis of Farm-
ington, Ct., b. 1701; resided in Northampton; d. there March 30,
1763. +
91 Henj.wun Lyman, b. Dec. 19, 1701 : d. in infancy.
02 Benjamin Lyman, b. Jan. 4, 1703; m. 1726, Mary Moseley, b. in
Westfield. 1707; settled in Easthampton: she d. Aug. 17, 1782; he.
d. Mav 1. 1762. In 1745 he removed to Bartlett Mills on the Man-
lian river, and the town of Easthampton deeded to him and Stephen
Wright, his neighbor, for the sum of £1,625 in bills of credit, old tenor,
a tract of land known as **School Meadow," the same being land
sequestered by the town for schools, about eight acres of Manhan
meadow above the falls on the rivei and the public road across the
same, "l"
03 Aaron Lyman, b. April 1, 1705: m. Dec. 12. 1733, Eunice Dwight,
dau. of the Rev. Josiah Dwight of Woodstock. Conn. ; settled in
Bclchertown. where he d. 1780. +
94 Eunice Lyman, b. May 3. 1707; d. June, 1720.
95 Hannah Lyman, b. lulv 14. 1709: m. Jan. 2, 1735, Capt. Nathaniel
Dwight of Belchertown,' b. Jan. 20, 1712, d. 1784: she d. 1794. 4-
96 Caleb Lyman, b. .\ug. 8, 1711 ; lived in Bostc^n with his uncle Caleb;
unm.
97 Sl'sanna Lyman, b. July 18, 1713: m. Mr. Baxter of Boston.
98 Capt. William I-yman, b. Dec. 12, 1715: m. Jemima Sheldon, b.
Nov., 1721: settled at Northampton: he d. there March 13, 1774:
she d. Feb, 16. 1785. +
99 Daniel Lyman, b. April 18, 1718; Yale, 1745; steward of Yale
1747 to 1752: m. 1748, Sarah Whitney of New Haven, d. Aug. 1,
1751: m. (2) June, 1752, Sarah Miles, dau. of Capt. Samuel Miles
of New Haven; m. (3) 1768, Eleanor Fairchild Benedict, d. March
23, 1825 ; he was deacon of the church in New Haven, lawyer and
magistrate; he d. Oct. 16, 1788. +
100 Medad Lyman, b. March 20, 1722; m. unknown; kept a tavern in
New Haven, Conn. +
5//1 gen. Children of Joseph and Abigail Lynian, (90):
101 Eunice Lyman, b. May 30, 1728; m. Capt. Lewis Clark of North-
ampton.
(itmaia^\i at ttf» Pom»rog J^amtlg 152
102 Mercy Lyman, b. Sept. 7, 1729: m. Hon. Joseph Hawley, patriot of
the Revolution, to whom is credited the sentiment: **\Ve must fight."
103 Joseph Lyman, b. May 4. 1731.
104 Er.EANOR Lyman, b. Mav 18, 1732: <1. in infancv.
105 Elisha Lyman, b. June 22. 1734: m. Abi<;ail Janes; d. Aug. 13,
1798; res. Northampton.
106 Eleanor Lyman, b. Sept. 24, 1737; m. Capt. Oliver Lyman of
Vermont.
Children of Benjamin and Mary Lymau, (g2):
107 Dea. Benjamin Lyman, b. Aug. 1, 1727; m. Hannah Jones of
Springfield, Mass.
108 ^IARY Lyman, b. Feb. 22. 1730; m. Capt. Oliver Pomeroy of North-
ampton, son of Capt. John Pomeroy and Rachel SheKlon.
109 Thankful Lyman, b. March 30, 1731 ; m. Daniel W illiams.
110 Lemuel Lyman, b. and d. 1732.
111 Lemuel Pomeroy Lyman, b. Aus:. 17. 1735: m. Lvdia Clark, dan.
of Eliakim, b. Sept., 1741 : he joined the expedition a.c:ainst Crown
Point, and was slightly wounded in the battle; d. July 16, 1810.
Res. Easthampton.
112 David Lyman, b. Dec. 14, 1737: m. April 12, 1763, Sarah Wright;
settled on the plain west of the village of Easthampton ; he was
called Captain; she d. Dec. 23, 1817; he d. Jan. 10, 1822.
113 Solomon Lyman, b. Jan. 21, 1741: d. Jan. 27, 1746.
114 Esther Lyman, b. June, 1748: d. 174*).
115 Martha Lyman, b. 1750; m. Xov. 8, 1770, Oliver Wright.
Children of Aaron and Eunice Lyman, (93):
116 Susannah Lyman, b. Xov. 16, 1734; m. Mr. Kent of Suffield, Conn.
117 JosLXH Lyman, b. March 9, 1736: m. Jan. 9, 175^>, Sarah Worth-
ington of Colchester, Ct. : she d. March 28, 1799; he m. (2) Mrs.
Stone, removed to Goshen, and d. there Xov. 18, 1822. He was
deacon of the church in Goshen, Mass.
118 Anna Lyman, b. Julv 28, 1737; m, Capt. Granger of Suffield, Ct.
119 Aaron Lyman, b. March 20. 1740: d. Feb. 23, 1758.
120 Major Elihu Lyman, b. Dec. 25, 1741 ; m. 1770, Esther King of
Westfield; m. (2) 1781, Sarah Stebbins of Deerfield, Mass.; he d.
Sept. 12, 1823. He was a Captain in the expedition under Benedict
Arnold for the invasion of Canada, Res. Xorthfield and Greenfield,
Mass.
121 Eunice Lyman, b. May 29, 1744; m. Jonathan Arms of Deerfield;
she d. May 3, 1832.
122 Mary Lyman, b. Xov. 12, 1745 : m. Capt. Elisha Hunt of Xorthfield ;
she d. 1819.
123 Dorothy Lyman, b. June 17, 1747; d. Aug. 16, 1789.
124 Caleb Lyman, b. Oct. 7, 1750: m. Oct. 25. 1774, Catherine Swan
of Worcester, Mass., b. March 12, 1756, d. Aug. 22, 1809; he m. (2)
April 4, 1816, Tirzah Field, dau. of Abner Field of Northampton;
he d. Aug. 17. 1822.
125 Dolly Lymax. b. Oct. 4, 1756: d. Sept. 14, 1787.
153 QFlfirii (&tmrut\an - Mthsuii
Children of Hannah and Nathaniel Dzvight, (95):
126 Elijah Dwight, b. Nov. 30, 1735; d. Jan. 19. 1736.
127 Elihu Dwight, b. March 31, 1737; d. March 22, 1760.
128 Justice Dwight, b. Jan. 13, 1739.
I 129 Eunice Dwight.
130 Jonathan Dwight, b. ; d. Sept. 7, 1766; student at Yale Col.
131 Susanna Dwight, d. Oct. 20, 1766.
132 Elijah Dwight.
133 JosiAH Dwight. b. ; d. March 19, 1767.
134 Pliny Dwight, b. Aug. 11, 1753; d. March 15, 1783.
Children of Capt, William and Jemima Lyman, (98):
135 Rachel Lyman, b. Xov. 22, 1752: m. Rev. Xoah Atwater of West-
field. Mass.
136 Gen. William Lyman, b. Dec. 7, 1755; j^radiiate Yale, 1776;
served through the Revolution ; Consul to London during President
Jefferson's administration; d. in London, bu. in C Gloucester Cathe-
dral. Was elected to Congress previous to President Washington's
retirement and voted against the resolution ; m. Jerusha, who d. June
11. 1803; he d. Sept. 2, 1811.
137 Cornelius Lyman, b. Jan. 7, 1758; Capt in U. S. Army; was in
John Allen's army ; m. Sarah Mason of Boston ; d. at Presque Isle.
now Erie. Pa.
138 Asahel Lyman, b. Feb. 8, 1760 ; d. soon.
139 Jemima Lyman, b. Feb. 5. 1761; m. Dec. 11, 1786, Hon. Samuel
Fowler ; Yale Col. 1778 ; she d. Feb. 28, 1826.
140 Levi Lyman, b. Jan. 30. 1763; m. Sept. 1, 1789, Lucretia Kingsley;
he was chairman of Xorthampton Board of Selectmen, of the County
Commissioners and Registrar of Deeds of Hampshire county about
quarter of a century ; he d. March 7, 1830.
141 Capt. Samuel Lyman, b. Jan. 12, 1765; m. Mary, dau. of Gen.
Joseph Warren of Boston, who was killed at Bunker Hill ; he d.
1802.
142 Submit Lyman, b. Dec. 5, 1767; d. Jan 9, 1797; unm.
Children of Daniel and Jd zcife, Sarah Lyman, (99):
% 143 Daniel Lyman, b. July 13, 1753.
144 RoswELL Lyman, b. July 9, 1755.
145 Sarah Lyman, b. Dec. 11, 1757; m. Peter Colt: d. Aug. 25, 1844.
146 Elihu Lyman, b. Aug. 24, 1760; m. Dec. 26, 1789, Polly Forbes,
dau. of Capt. Elijah Forbes of Xew Haven,
Children of Medad Lyman, (name of zcife unknozvn), (100):
147 Mary Lyman, b. ; d. about 1775 ; unm.
148 Esther Lyman, d. about 1775; unm.
149 Martha Lyman, b. 1757; m. Joseph Whiting of New Haven, d.
Feb. 3, 1794 ; she d. Feb. 4, 1829.
21 MARY POMEROY, (Medad, ElHveed), b. Feb. 15, 1684, North-
ampton; m. Jan. 2, 1705, Samuel Benton of Hartford, Ct., b. Jan.
O^pttFalogQ of tlft Pont^ro^ 3Famtlg 154
28, 1680, Hartford; he. d. Feb. 8, 1763, son of Samuel Benton, of
Hartford; she d. Sept. 18, 1773.
fth gen. Children, fall baptisms at Second Church, Hartford, CtJ:
150 Medad Bentox. b. Oct. 20, 1705.
151 Jonathan Benton, b. Sept. 2, 1707.
152 Timothy Benton, bp. March 10. 170*>.
153 Eunice Benton, bp. June 22, 1712.
154 Mary Benton, bp. May 29, 1715.
155 Samuel Benton, bp. Aup^. 11. 1717.
156 Sarai Benton, bp. Au^. 16. 1710.
23 REV. SAMUEL POMERDY. (Medad. Eltxceed). b. Sept. 16,
1687, Northampton: Vale. 1705. at the ajje of eiorhteen: m. (1) July
30, 1707, Lydia Taylor of Xorthampton. who d. 1722; m. (2) 1725,
Elizabeth VV^ebb, dau. of Rev. Joseph Webb of Fairfield, Ct. He
was settled over the Presbyterian Church at Newtown. Long Island,
where he died June 30, 1744. "greatly beloved and his death was an
unspeakable loss to his congregation."
4th gen. Children all by ist icife:
163 Catherine Pomeroy, b. May 4. 1708. +
164 Abigail Pomeroy, b. July 8, 1710. +
165 Noah Pomeroy, b. Nov. 20, 1712; d. same year.
166 Lemuel Pomeroy, b. May 2i, 1716; d. Oct. 11, 1737, in the Island
of Curacoa.
167 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. Nov. 16, 1717. +
The extracts presented here are mostly from Prof. Dexter's Biograph-
ical Sketches. "In July, 1708, the Rev. Samuel Pomeroy was called to tho
pastorate of the church in Newtown. Queens County. Long Island, and in
the following September he removed thither and began his life work.
He was ordained at Northampton, Nov. 30, 1709, the Rev. Mr. Stoddard,
the Rev. John Williams of Deerfield, and the Rev. William Williams of
Hatfield, (both Harvard College, 1683) joining in the service. At this
time the church was of the Congregational order, but in September, 1715.
Rev. Samuel Pomeroy applied for admission to and was heartily and unan-
imously accepted by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, through the influence of
a neighboring clerg\man, and two years later he united with others in organ-
izing the Presbytery of Long Island. His ministry was a prosperous one
and he sustained the character of a systematic, learned, and eminently pious
man. He preached for the last time on Sunday, May 20, 1744, and the
same evening was seized with a mortal illness.
"His second wife, Elizabeth Webb, eldest daughter of the Rev. Joseph
Webb, (Harvard College, 1684,) pastor of the First Church in Fairfield,
and one of the original trustees of Yale College, was bom Feb. 14, 1696-7,
and survived him twenty- four years, dying at the age of seventy-one."
The church building, put up in 1671, had become very much dilapi-
dated and it was decided that a new one must be built. Jonathan Fish, the
town clerk, presented the church with a plat of ground four rods square,
and the deed was in behalf of the ''Dissenting Presbyterian Congregation,
155 Uiifixh (AtmtBtUm - CHalrb
Newtown." The church took possession of this property on March 22,
1716, and work on the new edifice was begun immediately, but the interior
was not finished for many years, a pulpit not being furnished until 1741.
It was adorned with a spire in which was a small bell. Mr. Pomeroy joined
with Revs. McXish of Jamaica, and Philips of Sautauket in organizing the
IVesbytery of Long Island in 1717. The pastor. Rev. Samuel Pomeroy,
was supported by contributions of his congregation and the profits of the
[parsonage farm of seventy-four acres along Hoffman avenue. After a
pastorate of thirty-six years, he came to be greatly Ix?lovcd, and his death
was considered an unspeakable loss to his people. He was buried in the
town burial ground on Court street, but the remains were removed to the
church yard, where the original stone still marks his grave. There is an
inscription:
"Kind earth, kccf* safe my sleeping dust,
Till Christ shall raise it with the Just;
My ministeriitl work is done
»
For you. dear people of Scut own."
25 SAMUEL POMEROY, {Caleb. Eltwccd). b. May 29, 1669, at
Northampton, Mass.: m. (1) about 1690. Elizabeth, dau. of John
and Mary (Kingsley) French of Rohoboth, Mass.; m. (2) Dec. 7,
1703, Johanna, dau. of Jacob and .Mary (Frary) Root, b. Nov. .5,
1681, d. Jan. 20, 1713; m. (3) 1715, Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph* and
Elizabetht (Chapman) Strickland, b. Jan. 29, 1685; living in 1746,
when he made his will. He was a teacher and farmer, and settled in
Southampton. He received five acres of meadow land of an addi-
tional grant in Xortliampton. He had a home lot in Easthampton
on West street, near the saw-mill with a lot intervening, which had
been sequestered for school purposes. He d. about 1748.
4th gen. Children by ist H'ifc:
168 Samuel French Pomeroy, b. 1691. +
169 Caleb Pomerov. b. May 14, 1693; d. young.
170 Eliz.\betii Pomeroy, b' Sept. 30, 1694; d. Oct. 8, 1714; unm.
171 Caleb Pomeroy, b. Dec. 1. 1696; d. young.
172 Ebexezer Pomeroy, b. ilay 31, 1700; d. Aug. 9, 1709.
Children by 2d wife:
173 Johanna Pomeroy, b. about 1704; mentioned in her father's will in
1746; unm.
174 Hepzidah Pomeroy, b. in 1706; also mentioned in her father's will
1746; unm.
175 Caleb Pomeroy, b. Oct 2, 1707, Northampton. +
Children by 3d wife:
176 Mary Pomeroy, b. July 1, 1716. +
177 Joshua Pomeroy, b. Sept. 9, 1717. +
178 Noah Pomeroy, b. Oct. 13, 1719. +
•Joseph Strickland was son of Thwaite Strickland and Elizabeth, dau.
of Edward Shepard of Cambridge. Will June 21, 1670.
fBllzabeth Chapman was dau. of Edward Chapman and Elizabeth Fox.
dtmaiaQ^ at ti^t pont^ rog Jamtlg 15B
179 Richard Pomerov, b. Nov., 1721; went into Maine; descendants
not yet traced.
180 Elizabeth Pomerov, b. Feb. 25. 1723. +
181 Simeon Pomeroy, b. June 5, 1725, Northampton. +
It is appropriate to introduce here an extract from the '* History of the
Connecticut Valley :**
"In 1730. at a meeting of Proprietors, it was voted that Samtel and
Eldad Pomeroy might have their shares laid out as near their meadows
as might conveniently be. This shows they were already settled. This is
sustained by traditions, and their ownership for many years before is proved
by a petition which they made in 1742 to the General Court, desiring to be
«.\emi)t from taxation for the support of the new precinct lately formed by
about thirty families at the southwest corner of the town bounds. The
Pomerovs Ix^lonjjcd to the old town, as thev considered, and did not de-
sire to be part of the new. They state that they had improved their
lands and paid taxes for them for forty or fifty years. This would indi-
cate the cultivation of "Pomerov's Meadows" as earlv as 1700. Thev were
evidently the first pioneers upon tiie territory of Southampton, though not
a part of the company of proprietors who made the general settlement.
As the descendants or representatives of the original proprietors of North-
ampton, they were entitled to share in the newly divided territory, and their
rights were accorded by the vote above mentioned, but neither they nor
Ebenezer Corse participated in the drawnng of home-lots, or Pine Plain
lots.
"The general method of laying out land was to give to each man a
house-lot of twenty acres, either on Pomeroy 's Little Mountain or on
town-plot hill, ten acres of Pine Plain, either in Davis's plain or in the
adjoining plain, which lieth southwardly of Pomeroy's Little Mou!itain,
and sixty acres more to complete his ninety acres in the best of the land
cither on Pomeroy's Little Mountain, Town-plot Hill or Wolf-hill, or in
the land adjoining said hills; and for a minister the same quantity was t.>
be set apart in each of the divisions stated as to each of the thirty settlers.
"May 10, 1731: Granted to Joseph Wait five acres of land on the
southwardly branch of the Manhan, to be laid out so as to avoid incom-
moding Samuel and Eldad Pomeroy as much as the committee conveniently
can."
The town of Northampton voted Dec. 22, 1732, *'To lay out a highway
over the branch of the Manhan river at or near Pomeroy's Meadows, or
some other suitable and convenient place, so as to accommodate the new
settlement."
May, 1737: "The Selectmen of Northampton laid out this road. They
began at Eldad Pomeroy 's path that goeth southerly to Samuel and KMad
Pomerov's bounds tree, so called, and then thev turned westwardlv on the
said hill till they come to Samuel Pomeroy 's path going down the hill
from his house ; and then going over the brook, and so up the hill alon.j^
near Caleb Pomeroy 's house, still westwardly till they come to the top of
the hill, then turning somewhat southwardly down the hill, all in Samuel
Pomeroy's land; and then over the Manhan river, over the bridge that is
now over the river, erected by the new town people, from the foot of the
I
157 ^if^h (Srnrnitiim - CHaleb
hill to the bridge in Eldad Pomeroy's land, so along where the path now
goeth; all to be two rods wide.'* The suinmit of Pomeroy's Mountain is
involved in the storv of the Pascommuck massacre.
Extracts from the will of Samuel Pomeroy, the same being dated
I 1746; proved December, 1748: '*\Vife Elizabeth to have one-third of estate ;
and mentions oldest sons Samuel and Caleb. * * * Joshua to have the
house he dwells in at Xewtown (Southampton) and all land at Newtown.
* * * Noah to have the land between the brook and upper meadow.
* * * Simeon, the house where I dwell, barn and all uplands upon this side
of the brook. * * * Caleb, Noah and Simeon, all meadow land, commons
and Long Division. * * * Johanna, Hepzibah, Mary and Elizabeth, £40
cash, or movables, or bills of credit. The two oldest (Johanna and Hep-
zibah) to account for what they have had of me, and their grandfather,
Jacob Root; also what I have advanced over or what I shall advance, to
Marv."
m
26 ABIGAIL PcmEROY, (Caleb. EUivccd), b. Oct. 20, 1671; m.
( 1 ) April 5. 16*H, John Searle, son of John and Ruth (Janes) Searle;
thev moved from Northampton Center to the North Slope of Mount
Tom (Pascomuck) in 1700. On May 13, 1704. the father with
three of his children were slain in the terrible Indian massacre, and
the mother, with the other children captured, although she had re-
ceived a severe wound on the head with a tomahawk. One of her
descendants has in his possession a silver pin she wore in her hair at
the time the blow was struck. Afterwards, in 1707, she married
Nathan Alexander, and it is supposed that she occupied the Searle
farm.
jth gen. Children:
182 Elisii.v Skari.k. b. 1605; he was captured at the time of the massa-
cre by the Indians and taken to Canada, where he was brought up
in the Catliolic faith. After fifteen years he was redeemed and
returned to his native town; he m. Rebecca Danks, reared a family
of children, was a worthy citizen, and had a respectable standing in
the church. +
I 183 Joseph Searle, b. 1607 ; was one of the captives.
184 Abigail Searle, b. Aug. 15, 1698; massacred bv Indians May 13,
1704.
185 John Searle, b. Aug. 9. 1700; massacred by Indians, May 13, 1704.
186 Caleb Searle, b. 1702 ; massacred by Indians, May 13, 1704.
187 Submit Searle, (posthumous daughter) b. Sept. 14. 1704; m.
1732, Deacon John Clark. He was the third Deacon John Clark,
and one of the first settlers in Southampton, Mass., in 1730. "^
4th gen. Children of Elisha and Rebecca Searle, (182):
188 Rebecca Searle, m. Zebediah Alvord.
189 Abigail Searle.
190 Catherine Searle. b. 1736; m. Lieut. Silas Brown, b. 1736, d. Aug.
4, 1804; shed. 1813.
(ftrnraUigg 0f tilt Pottiproti j^atntlg 15B
191 Hannah Searle, b. 1738; m. Lieut. Xoah Strong, Jr.; they were
first settlers at Westhanipton.
192 Lucy Searle.
193 Elisha Searle, Jr.; m. Thankful Danks.
Children of Subftiit and Deacon John Clark, (i8j):
194 John Clark, b. 1733.
195 Chloe Clark.
196 Jehiel Clark, b. 1736: m. 1760. Sarah Strouix.
197 SiRMiT Clark, b. 1738: m. 1700, Iilijah Clapp.
198 John Clark.
199 Gad Clark, m. Hannah Edwards.
200 Martha Clark.
201 Abigail Clark, m. 1767, Selah Clapp.
It is said that Andrew, Edward and iolin Searle were horn in Warwick,
England, and all came to Boston in 1634. It is evident, however, thai
there were Searles in County Devon, as the Annalist, during: his receni
visit, found in Berrv Ponierov cluirchvard the c'raves with headstones in
good condition of Hugh Searle and wife Elizabeth. Standin<T by the
headstone of Henrv Havwood, one can read the names of manv of the
WW
men and women who have intermarried with the Pomero\ s, viz. : Samuel
Hodge, Samuel Angel. Georj^e Dus:dale, Georj^e Everest and Amelia his
wife, Henry Hayward and Elizabeth his wife. John Ashford and Mary
his wife, and there are many others who are familiar to the Colonies, but not
a single Pomeroy headstone. The Pomeroy headstones ha\e doubtless
been carted awav into the fields as material to build stone fences for the
Seymour farmers. Every indication of the Pomeroy ownership is being
rapidly obliterated. Even from the guide-board pointin.:^ the wa\ to the
castle, the church and the village of Berry Pomeroy, the name is omitted,
leaving merely the word Berry.
John Searl. the emigrant, removed from Boston in 1633. in company
with others to Springfield, Mass., as first settlers. His home lot was a
little north of the present Union railmad station. He married March VK
1639, Sarah Baldwin. They had a son John, born March 30, 1641. I lis
widow, Sarah, married April 28. 1642, Alexander Edwards, who came from
a border town in Wales. In 1653 they removed from Springfield as first
settlers to what is now the city of Xorthampton. They are the ancestors of
all of the names of Edwards and Searl in the Connecticut \'alley.
30 ELDAD POMEROY, {Caleb. Elfzcecd), b. Dec. 6, 1679; m. Dec.
20, 1705, Sarah Wait. b. April 18. 1687, dau. of William Wait and
Sarah Kingsley. Eldad I^omeroy left Northampton for Easthampton,
in 1730, and was among the first settlers of Easthampton ; he d. there
in 1760. The old homestead in Xorthampton is now the John Clapp
place on West street.
4fh gen. Children:
202 Sarah Pomeroy, b. Oct. 5, 1706; m. 1733. Thomas Porter.
203 Hannah Pomeroy, b. Feb. 4, 1709. "^
204 Eldad Pomeroy, b. Dec. 31, 1711. +
159 Uiifitb (SettrratUm - Masiftm
205 Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. Nov. 10, 1715. +
206 Elisha Pomeroy, b. 1719. +
207 Joseph Pomeroy, b. Nov. 19, 1721. +
208 Benjamin Pomeroy, b. 1724. +
209 Abigail Pomeroy, b. 1727. +
31 HANNAH POMEROY, (Caleb, Eltweed), b. July 4. 1682; m. July
7, 1702, Joseph Baker, of Windsor, Conn., son of Joseph, (Jeffrey),
settled on a tract of land of several hundred acres south of Shemp-
set Pond; she d. 1705; he m. (2) Mrs. Abigail (Stiles) Bissell, dau.
of Thomas Stiles; he d. Jan. 29, 1754.
4th gen. Children:
210 Joseph Baker, b. April 19, 1703.
211 Samuel Baker, b. June 28, 1705.
32 MERCY POMEROY, {Caleb, Eltweed). b. Sept. 20, 1684: m.
Dec. 9, 1708. Samuel Edwards, Jr., b. March, 1676; she d. April
17, 1712; he m. (2) Sarah Pomeroy, dau. of Joseph of Colchester and
Hepzibah (Ford) Lyman.
4th gen. Child:
212 Mercy Pomeroy Edwards, b. Feb. 5. 1711; m. (1) Dec. 7, 1749.
Benjamin Bartlett (his 3d wife), b. Dec. 30, 1696. Northampton, d.
Aug. 23, 1762, son of Samuel Bartlett and wife Sarah Baldwin; she
m. (2) Ebenezer French; she d. Oct. 26, 1790.
35 JOSHUA POMEROY,* {Joshua. Eltiveed), b. Sept. 24. 1675, at
Deerfield, Mass.: m. (U May 1, 1700, Sarah Leonard, who d. April
24, 1702; m. (2) Esther with whom he was captured bv
Indians in the raid on Deerfield. 1704. and who was killed when the>
were pursued, but Joshua appeared in Dorchester in 1707; which
is accounted for in a measure by the following:: extract from the
Records of the First Church of Dorchester, paj;e 156: "Dec. 8, 1706,
Memorandum: The Reverend Mr. John Williams Pastor of Deer-
field & many Captives with Him returned from ye french and indian
Captivity very lately in Answer to Publ. Prayers on that behalf:
Gloria Deo in Xto." He m. (3) in Dorchester, Feb. 4, 1708, Repent
Weeks, d. July 22, 1714, ae. 38; he m. (4) in Dorchester, June 2,
1715. Mary, dau. of John and Hannah Blake, d. March 19, 1718; he
m. (5) Oct. 1, 1718, Mary, dau. of Thomas and Mary Clapp of
Dedham. He was chosen Constable of Dorchester in 1712.
4th gen. Children by ist wife:
213 Elizabeth Pomeroy. b. March 29, 1701; d. April 1, 1701.
214 John Pomeroy, b. April 20, 1702.
*No Pomeroy projection by this family. When Joshua Pomeroy Joined
the church in Boston he was said to have been last of Dorchester and firstly
of the church in Deerfield. "He received a grant of 6| acres of land on
'Ragged Row' (now Pleasant Street, Boston). He was designated in 1729 as
one of the English tenants, and in the sale of a portion of his land it was said to
be part of 6,000 acres that he had purchased in 1726." — (History of Canton,
by J. V. Huntoon.)
(Srtttal09|f of tlfr Pomrrog IFomilg 160
By 3d zcifc:
215 Mary Pomeroy, b. in Dorchester, Sept. 11. 1710. +
216 S\R.\H Pomeroy. b. in Dorchester, Feb. 10, 1712; m. Nov. 15, 1733,
Stoughton, John Patton of Xortoii. Mass.
217 Daughter Pomeroy, b. and d. 1714.
By 4th iK'ifc:
218 Hannah Pomeroy, b. in Dorchester, May 27, 1716; d. Sept. 11,
1716, Norton.
(B. JtS. P. iS, Boston R, Deeds.)
James Hawes of Dorchester Conhvainer and Damaris his wife sell for
165 to Joshua Pumry of Dorchester. Taylor. 4 acres in Dorchester, boinidcd
by Land of John Bird Senr. John Humphry, James Bird Senr. Messuapfe
or Tenement ** Moreover also all my Well of water which is on the East-
ward side of the Road or hii^hwav and is now witliin mv Meadow I'oiice
near to the said Messuage and also full and free liberty of passing to and
from the said Well of water, and Convenient room around the said Well
for drawing of water out of said well.**
Signed the Six and twentieth day of April in the Year of Our Lord
One Thousand Seven hundred and eiglit. In the Seventh year of Her
Majesties Reign.
James Hawes personallv appeared and ack'd in Dorchester June the
22d 1708.
(B, 36. P. 33. Boston R, Deeds.)
To all People to whom tliese presents shall come — Greeting: Know
yee that I Joshua Pumery of Dorchester in the County of Suffolk within
His Majesties Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England. Yeoman
&c. for Forty-two pounds paid by William Withington of Dorchester
Blacksmith, a tract of land situate lying and being in Dorchester New
Grant containing by estimation one hundred and twenty five acres more or
less, being the Eleventh Lot in the Twenty five Divisions being the right
of Stephen Hopkins and John Bird Junr. and Samuel Bird. James Hawse
&c. and Mary Pumery wife of me the sd. Joshua Pumery by these presents
freely and willingly give yield up and surrender all her right of Dowry
&c. — sixteenth Day of April in the Eighth year of the Reign of Our
Sovereign Lord George by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France
and Ireland and in the vear of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
twenty two.
Joshua Pumry & a seal.
Marv Pumrv M her mark & a seal.
The above named Joshua and Marv Pumerv
app'd &c. ' ' May 22, 1722.
(P, 239. B. 39.)
This Indenture made Ye fifteenth day of March in the 12th year of thp
Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George by the Grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoq Domini One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-five between Amos Ahanton Thomas
Ahanton Simon George Hezekiah Squamoag George Hunter all resident in
161 Uiifirh (SettrratUnt - Joarttif
Punkapoag an Indian Plantation within the Township of Dorchester in the
County of Suffolk and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England
and the Native or Indian Proprietors of the Lands within the said Indian
Plantations in Behalf of themselves and other Indians that are or may
be Interested therein on the one part and Joshua Pumry of Punkapoag
aforesd (or Dorset X'illage as it is Sometimes called) Yeoman and one
of the English tenants or Lessees of the s'd Indian Linds on the Other
part, Witnesseth that the s'd Amos Ahanton Thomas Ahanton Simon
George Hezekiah Squamoage George Hunter (by and with the allowance
and approbation of the Honorable Nathaniel Byfield Paul Dudley Jonathan
Remington John Quincy Ebenezer Stone Esqrs — being a Committee
Appointed & Impowered by the Create & General Court or Assembly of
the Province afores'd at their session at Boston in the year of Our Lord
1724) Signified by subscribing their names hereunto for & in Consideration
of the Sum of Twenty one pounds Eighteen Shillings & Sixpence in good
Bills of Credit on the S'd province well and truly paid by the s'd Joshua
Pumry in the Hands of the s'd committee Put in Trust to & for the only use
& behoof of the Indian Proprietors afore sd & to be accordingly employed
for the benefit of the sd Indian Proprietors pursuant to the direction of the
sd Great & General Court have Given Granted Bargained and Sold & by
these presents Do give grant Bargain Sell Aliene Release Confirme quit claim
unto the s'd Joshua Pumry (in his possession now being) Two Several
Tracts or parcels of Land Scituate lying & being in Punkapoag aforesd
(with the Dwelling house thereon standing) containing in the whole Sixty
one Acres & One Quarter more or less, which sd Tracts or Parcells of Land
arc more particularly Described & Decyphered in a small Plat or Draught
hereto aiinexed, together with all privileges, &c. &c.
Signed Sealed & Delivered in the presence of us — Edward Winslow
Samuel Tvlev
Approved this Twenty Second day of March 1725. Nathll Byfield
Paul Dudley Jona Remington John Quinccy Ebenezer Stone
Suffolk Ss Boston March 22(1 1725.
Personallv appd & ackd
Paul Dudley May 6th 1726
John Ballantine Regr
45 ABIGAIL POMEROY. (Joseph, Ellzcccd). b. Jan. 25, 1683; m.
Isaac Lyman, b. Feb. 16. 1681, at Northampton, son of Richard
Lyman and Elizabeth Coles, dau. of John Coles of Hatfield; she
d. June 3, 1709; (probably b. in Colchester).
4th gen. Children:
219 Isaac Pomeroy Lyman, b. 1707; d. 1708.
220 Abigail Pomeroy Lvmax, b. May 28, 1709; d. Dec. 25, 1709.
49 SARAH POMEROY, (Joseph, Eltweed), b. Feb. 3, 1690; m.
about 1714, Samuel Edwards of Northampton, (who had previously
m. Mercy Pomeroy, (32), dau. of Caleb Pomeroy and Hepzibah
Baker of Colchester) ; she m. (2) Joseph Wright, Sr.; she d. 1751.
(6tmnioQ^ of tl^r Pdnvrog 9amtlQ 162
4th j^cn. Children by ist marriage:
221 Sarah Edwards, b. 1715: m. Reuben Wrip^ht
222 Deacon Saniuel Edwards, b. 1716: m. 1747, Catherine Clark, b.
1723, d. April 29, 1803; soldier of the French and Indian war of
1745; d. 1783. +
223 Miriam Edwards, b. 1718: ni. Aaron Wrig^ht
224 Hannah Edwards, b. 1720: d. 1738.
225 Noah Edwards, b. 1722: m. Jerusha Alvord: he d. Sept. 3, 1805. +
226 Phebe Edwards, b. 1724: m. Titus Wright, b. 1718.
227 Medad Edwards, b. 1726.
228 \athaxiel Edwards, b. 1729: m. Margaret Alvord, dau. of Benja-
min Alvord of Northampton; he d. 1792.
S/Zi gen. Children of Samuel and Catherine Edwards, (223):
229 Hannah Edwards, b. July 29, 1748: m. Gad Clark, service in the
Revolution: he d. 1777; she m. (2) Deacon Stephen Lyman.
230 Catherine Edwards, b. Xov. 13. 1750: m. July 30, 1772, Lemuel
Coleman, d. Feb. 11, 1824; she d. Jan. 3, 1836.
231 Samuel Edwards, b. June 9. 1753: m. June 14, 1780. Silence Judd,
dau. of the Rev. Jonathan Judd, d. Sept. 9, 1839; he. d. Aug. 12,
1843.
232 Ll'THer Edwards, b. Mav 3, 1756: m. Dec. 22, 1778, Sarah Sheldon.
b. Oct. 19, 1759, d. ...!..: he m. (2) Clarissa Judd, b. 1764, d.
Aug. 8, 1837 : he d. May 12, 1834.
233 Deacon Elisha Edwards, b. Oct. 23, 1758: m. about 1792, Anna
Bates, b. Feb. 13, 1760, d. Nov. 10, 1826; he d. Nov. 17, 1832. He
was father of Prof. Bela B. Edwards.
234 Nancy Edwards, b. Jan. 4, 1761 : d. Sept. 1, 1777.
235 AsENATH Edwards, b. Sept.. 1767: d. Sept. 9, 1777.
^th gen. Children of Xoah and Jerusha Edwards, (225):
236 Noah Edwards, b. 1750.
237 Justin Edwards, bp. Aug. 1. 17.=^2: m.
238 Simeon Edwards, bp. Nov 17. 1754: d. July 16, 1830.
239 Benjamin Alvord Edwards, bp. Jan. 23. 1757.
240 Jerusha Edwards, bp. Feb., 175^: m. 1779, Joseph Warner, son of
Daniel Warner and Jemima Wright.
241 Eli Edwards, b. 1760.
242 \'ester Edwards, b. 1763.
243 Eunice Edwards, b. 1768.
51 DEACON JOSEPH POMEROY, {Joseph, Eltzceed), b. Dec. 20,
1695. Windsor, Conn.; m. Aug. 20, 1727, Sarah Bebee, who d.
Sept. 3, 1728; he m. (2) Dec. 25, 1728, Elizabeth Randall. Lived
at New Haven, Conn., and Boston, to which colony his father had
preceded him. Tailor. Res. also, Yarmouth, Maine.
3th gen. Child by ist wife:
244 Daughter Pomerov, b. Feb. 29, 1728; d. Dec, 1729.
163 Qltrtrii (Srttrratiott - loBtpif
Children by Jd zcifc:
245 Sarah PoMiiROv, b. Aug. 17, 1731.
246 Joseph PoNfERov, b. Jan. 30, 1733. 4-
247 Hannah Pomerov, b. April 26, 1734.
248 Abigah. PoMERoy. b. Jan. 2, 1736.
"Several other children."
52 HANNAH POMEROY, {Joseph, Elhceed). b. April 22, 1698; m.
May 9, 1721, John Northain, who d. 1740: she m. (2) Sept. 2, 1740,
Joseph Foote, (his second wife).
4fh gen. Children:
249 Hannah Northam, b. June 6, 1722: d. young.
250 Lurana Northam. b. May 25, 1723: ni. Noah Pomeroy (271),
son of Noah Pomeroy and wife. Elizabeth Sterling.
251 Hannah Northam. b. May 29, 1724.
252 John Northam. b. March 29, 1725: d. 1740.
253 Sarah Northam. b. Aug. 6, 1726.
254 Ruhama Northam. b. Oct. 15, 1727: m. Sept. 14. 1749, Jeremiah
Foote. son of Joseph Foote (who m. Hannah Nortiiam as his 2d
wife) and Ann Clothin, b. Oct. 11, 1725, d. Mav 15, 1784; she d.
Feb. 8, 1809.
255 Ann Northa.m (twin with Ruhama), b. Oct. 15, 1727.
256 Elizabeth Northam, b. April 20, 1729.
257 Abigail Northam, b. Aug. 23. 1731.
258 Katharine Northam. b. April 13, 1733.
259 E.XPERIENCE Northam, b. April 13, 1733. (twin with Katharine).
j//z gen. Children of Ruhama and Jeremiah Foote, (^54):
260 Ambrose Foote, bp. and d. April 11, 1750.
261 Ambrose Foote, b. July 15, 1751.
262 Betty Foote, b. Jan., 1753: m. April 3, 1777, (her cousin) Joseph
Foote. son of Hosea.
263 Stei'Hen Foote, b. 1755.
264 UzziEL Foote, b. 1757.
265 Jeremiah Foote, bp. Jan. 21, 1759.
266 Ruhama Foote, b. Oct. 15, 1760.
267 Ann Foote, b. June 13, 1762.
268 Hannah Foote. b. April 4, 1766.
269 M \RTiN Foote. b. ; d. : unni.
270 Esther Foote, bp. Oct. 27, 1771; m. Sept. 29. 1791, Joseph Taylor
of Colchester.
53 NOAH POMEROY, {Joseph, Eltwecd), b. May 19, 1700, Windsor,
Conn. ; m. Dec. 16, 1724, Elizabeth Sterling of Lyme, Conn., b. April
18, 17(X), d. Sept. 30, 1779, dau. of Capt. Daniel Sterling and Mary
Fenwick, (widow of Richard Ely, who were m. June 6, 1699). He
was a leader in public affairs, and Deacon of the First Church in
Somers, Conn., to which place they moved from Colchester in 1751 ;
he d. in Somers, Feb. 16, 1779.
(Setttabisg of tljr ppmrrDH 3Famti8 164
4th gen. Children:
271 Noah Pomeroy, b, Oct. 8, 1725; m. +
272 Daniel Pomeroy, b. Oct. 13, 1727. +
273 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. 1729. "^
274 John Pomeroy, b. Aug. 12, 1733, in Somers. +
275 Elijah Pomeroy, b. March 9. 1735: joined the expedition to
Havana, Aug. 29, 1762. This was an aggression made by England
against Spain after the capture of Quebec from the French in
1759. A large portion of the troops for this enterprise (4,000),
were drawn from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and they arrived
before Havana, June 6, 1762. Havana was captured by the Xew
Englanders, Aug. 14, 1762, with small loss in battle on the part of
the Colonists, but sickness made great havoc in their ranks. Elijah
d. there from the evils of war and climate.
276 Joshua Pomeroy, b. Feb. 27, 1737. +
277 Samuel Pomeroy, b. about 1739: was with his brother Elijah, in
the expedition to Havana, Aug. 29. 1762: he d. there in 1762,
from the hardships of the campaign.
JFourtl; CS^n^ratton
"And thou sliall speak unto the Children
of Israel, saying, If a man die and have no
son then you shall cause his inheritance to
go unto his daughter." — X umbers.
54 EXPERIENCE POMEROY, {John, Mcdad, Eltzcccd). h. Oct. 8,
1685, Xorthampton ; m. Jan. 2, 1706, Deacon Ebenezer Lyman, b.
1682, of Northampton, later of Durham and Torrington. He was
representative for Durham 1737; d. at Torrington, 1762.
5//1 gen. Children:
278 Moses Lymax, b. Sept., 1706: m. Jan. 10, 1733, Ruth Hickox,
who d. Aug. 12, 1734: he m. (2) June, 1735, Ruth Gaylord, who. d.
Aug. 21, 1751; m. (3) Sarah ; he had removed to South-
ington, Ct, and was admitted to the Congregational church; Sarah
d. there Jan. 28, 1765; he. d. March 3, 1796. +
279 Experience Lyman, b. and d. in Northampton, 1708.
280 Ebenezer Lyman, b. Sept. 20, 1709: m. Elizal^eth Seward, dau. of
Noadiah, about 1733, d. soon, s. p. ; m. (2) about 1734, Sarah ;
settled in Torrington, 1737 ; purchased a large tract of land, on which
a fort was built to which settlers resorted at night ; tilled their farms
with ginis bv their side; he d. April 1, 1753, Torrington, Conn. +
281 Stephen Lyman, b. May 14, 1711; d. Feb. 22, 1712.
282 Experience Lyman, b. Dec. 25, 1712, Northampton; d. Nov. 20,
1730.
283 MiNDWELL Lyman, b. Julv 11, 1714; m. Oct. 29, 1741, Jacob Strong,
»
165 9atxrtli dtmrutian - Mthab
284 John Lyman, b. 1717: m. Sept. 13. 1739, Hope Haw lev, dan. of
Jehiel Hawley and Hope Stow of Middletown ; he d. 1763. "+"
285 Hannah Lyman, bp. June 30, 1723, Durham: m. March 20, 1749,
^ Asahel Strong, son of Jacob and Abigail (Bissell) Strong, b. May
7. 1715. d. Nov. 15, 1776: she d. Feb. 19. 1771, Torrington, Conn. +
dtli i^cit. Child of Moses and Ruth Lyman, (^78):
286 Moses Lyman, b. Jan. 20, 1734; d. ^rarch 17, 1734.
Children hy 3d zcifc:
297 Ruth Lyman, b. March 2i, 1736: m. Feb. 2, 1758, Samuel Wood-
ruff of Southington. d. July 7. 1816: she d. Aug. 9, \S2S).
288 M()si:s Lyman, bp. Feb. 13, 1743; m. .Vbigail Blackston (his second
wife); he d. 1812.
289 S\RAH Lyman, bp. Jan. 6, 1745.
3X) Lois Lyman, bp. Feb. 15. 1747.
291 Hannah Lyman, bp. Julv 3. 1749.
2^)2 \()AH Lyman, bp. Oct. 13, 1751.
293 r^HiNEAs Lyman, bp. May 4, 1755.
Child by 3d wife:
294 Sarah Lyman, bp. July 16, 1756.
Last seven children bp. in Southington, Conn.
Children of Ebcnezer and Sarah Lyman, (280):
295 Caleb Lyman, b. 1747; m. (1) Hannah Loomis, by whom he had
five children; m. (2) Mrs. Delight Marsh, bv whom he had one
child.
296 EnRNEZER Lyman, b. March 17, 1750: m. Ann ; d. March 7,
1813: she d. March 14. 1813.
297 Sarah Lyman, m. Joel Wetmore.
298 Esther Lyman, m. Nehcmiah Lewis.
299 RiTH Lyman, ni. Ashbel Xorth.
300 Rhoda Lyman, m. Nathaniel Hayden.
301 Mary Lyman, m. Mr. Tuttle, and settled in Windsor, Conn.
6th gen. Children of Mindzvell and Jacob Strong, (283):
9 302 MiNDWELL Strong, b. July 28, 1742.
302.1 Experience Strong, b. and d. Aug. 13, 1743.
303 Abigail Strong, b. Jan. 27, 1745; m. Ebenezer Stoddard of Tor-
rington.
304 Experience Strong, b. March 28, 1749.
305 Elizabeth Strong, b. Sept. 10, 1755 ; d. Jan. 2, 1756.
306 Mary Strong, b. July 2, 1757; m. March 23, 1775, Richard Leach;
she d. April 19, 1791. He was a Rev. soldier ; d. July 6, 1827.
Children of John and Hope Lyman, (284) :
307 John Lyman, b. 1740; d. young.
308 Catherine Lyman, bp. at Durham, Nov. 8, 1741 ; m. Lot Benton of
Guilford.
309 Hannah Lyman, b. at Durham, June 19, 1743; m. Rev. Mr. Willis-
ton of West Haven.
(Srtttalosif of tlyr Pomrrog 9amUg 166
310 John Lvman, bp. Jan. 13, 1744-5; d. young.
311 David Lyman, b. Jan. 6, 1746: m. May 20, 1777, Sarah Comstock
of Norwalk; he was selectman and Colonel of militia; she d. i^'eb.
28, 1835; he d. Feb. 28, 1815.
312 Esther Lyman, b. Feb. 17, 1740: m. Mr. Beecher: was mother of
Dr. Lyman Beecher.
313 Flihu Lyman, b. about 1751 : physician: m. and left children. Alfred
and Maria ; d. at the south.
314 Phineas Lyman.
Children of Hannah and Asahcl Strong, (^8^):
315 Asahel Strong, b. April 17, 1750: m. Feb. 5, 1776, Martha Barber,
dau. of David; he d. Jan. 6. 1831, IVrn, .\. Y. : she d. July 12, 1820.
316 Hannah Strong, b. Xov. 30, 1753: m. John Miner, of Winchester,
Conn.
317 DoRc.xs Strong, b. Feb. 27, 1758; m. Ilezckiah Beecher of Ccthle-
hem.
318 Chloe Strong, b. Dec. 4, 1763: m. David Holmes of Russell, Mass.
319 D.AViD Strong, b. Mav 31, 1768.
83 CAPT. JOHN POMEROV. (Ebencccr, Mcdad. Eltn'ccd). b. April
1, 1695, Northampton; m. May 29, 1718, Rachel Sheldon, dau. of
Thomas Sheldon (Isaac) and Mary Hinsdale, b. 1701. He took an
active part in an Indian conflict designated as Father Rale's war,
and was Lieutenant in Capt. Kellogg's command, at the time stationed
at Northfield and Deerfield. England and France, it is said, took
no part in this war, the Indians being incited by the Jesuits to over-
run and murder the colonists. Mas.sachusctts and New Hampshire
onlv were activelv enq:aQ:e(l in hostilities with the tribes, inhabitinji*
what is now the state of Maine. Though open hostilities were in prog-
ress but four years, and principally involved the far eastern section of
the province, there was also universal alarm along the western frontier,
and the valley towns were under constant apprehension. The History
of Northampton says that **Fort Drummer, (where Lieut. John
Pomeroy was stationed) was an outpost, headquarters of observation.
from which scouting parties were sent in all ilirections, and as Indians
were thought to be expert in that service an attempt was made to
engage them but with negative results." The Indian chief. Gray
Lock, was perhaps the most active in these depredations. Reports
that bands of Indians were seen in various directions were frecjuent,
and the utmost vigilance was required to secure the settlers against
surprise and massacre. He was also with the Northampton men
at Forts Massachusetts and No. 4 during the attack by the French
and Indians under Sieur Baptiste Boucher de Niverville, and after
three days of continuous fighting the enemy were driven off. Bancroft
says: ** Among the gallant soldiers who successfully repulsed the
enemy, were several men from Northampton : Lieut. William Lyman
was second in command, Noah Clapp, John Birge, John Pomeroy,
Ithamar Strong and Zadoc Danks.** Mrs. Pomerov died April 22,
1774; he d. June 4, 1736.
IBZ Jfimrtlf dtmrstUm - MthtA
^th gen. Children:
320 John Pomeroy. b. Sept. 6, 1719; d. youngs.
321 Elisha Pomeroy, b. Jan. 29, 1721. +
322 Rachel Pomeroy, b. April 14, 1723. +
323 .Simeon Pomeroy. b. May 3, 1726; d. young.
324 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. Jan. 27, 1727: d. young.
325 John Pomeroy, b. about 1728. +
326 Oliver Pomeroy, b. 1729. +
327 Titus Pomeroy, b. Sept. 14. 1731 : d. Feb. 14, 1732.
328 Eunice Pomeroy. bp. .\ug. 7. 1734: m. April 26. 1758, Col. James
Easton, Litchfield. Ct. He was with Ethan .\llen in his attack on
Fort Ticonderoga.
329 Titus Pomeroy. bp. Oct. 19, 1736. +
66 EBEXEZER POMEROY. {Ebcncccr, Medad, Elnvced), b. Sept.
18. 1697, Northampton: m. April 26, 1722, Elizabeth Hunt, b. March
2, 1701, d. June 10, 1782, dau. of Jonathan (Jonathan, John) Hunt
and Martha Williams : he d. April 22, 1774.
j//i getu Children:
330 Ebenezer Pomeroy. b. May 1, 1723. +
331 Eliz.xbeth Pomeroy. b. Jan. 27, 1727: d. Feb. 3, 1727.
332 Eliz.xdetii Pomeroy, b. March 3, 1729; m. (1) Elisha Hawley; m.
(2) Phineas Lyman, b. about 1725, son of Lieut. Gideon Lyman and
wife Esther Strong, (Phineas Lyman had previously m. Joanna
Eastman, who was the mother of iiis three children.)
333 Stephen Pomeroy. b. July 13, 1732. +
334 Hem AN Pomeroy, b. June 27, 1734. +
335 Eth.\n Pomeroy, b. Jan. 22, 1735-6; d. Jan. 26, 1736.
336 Esther Pomeroy, b. Aug. 7, 1737. +
67 SARAH POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Medad, Eltzveed), b. Sept. 5, 1700,
Northampton: m. Dec. 12, 1721, Capt. Noah Wright, b. Nov. 2*^.
169^), d. June 27. 1775, son of Ebenezer Wright and Hannah Hunt:
she d. April 3, 1777.
5th gen. Children:
337 Selah Wright, b. Sept. 24. 1722; m. Esther Lvman; d. Dec. 17,
1786; she d. Aug. 11, 1815, ae. 90.
338 Caleb Wright, m. Sarah Strong.
339 Dr. Elihu Wright, m. Rachel Sprague: settled at New Marl-
borough, Mass.; d. Oct., 1776, at White Plains. +
340 Katharine Wright, b. Oct. 7, 1728; m. Jan. 3, 1754, Seth Lyman;
d. at Norwich, Mass.
341 Mary Wright, bp. Nov. 17, 1734; m. (1) Feb. 8, 1759. Joel Hunt:
m. (2) 1782, Benjamin Clark; d. Jan. 28, 1805.
342 Noah Wright, b. Jan. 11, 1736; settled at New Marlborough.
343 Elisha Wright, b. April 8, 1739; d. Dec. 2, 1802; unm.
344 Joel Wright, b. Jan. 28, 1744; m. Ursula Mosele> ; d. June 24. 1796.
i
(SrtttaloQg of tlfr Pomrrdg IFamtlQ IfiB
6th gen. Children of Elihu and Rachel IVrii^ht, (339):
344.1 Elisha Wright.
344.2 Ei.iHu Wright, Jr., m. Mary Pomcroy, (1207). +
344.3 Augustus Wright.
344.4 R.\CHEL Wright, m. Frederick Boydcn.
344.5 P.vMELiA Wright, ni. Eliakim Clapp of Chester.
69 EXSIGN J(3SIAH POMEROY, (.Ebenezer. Medad, Eltwccd). b.
Dec. 20, 1703, Xorthanipion : m. Xov. 0, 1731. Lydia Ashley, b. June
28, 1710, d. Dec. 19, 1772, dau. of Lieut. Jonathan Ashley ami Abicrail
Stebbins of Westfield, Mass. ; he lived at Clackpole, on the plain,
and on Jan. 2, 1736. his house was burned; his brother Seth after-
wards had the land in part ; he was a weaver by trade : his estate
was settled in 1789.
^th <^cn. Children:
345 Adino Pomrroy. b. Sept. 22. 1732. +
346 Eleazer Pomeroy, b. Oct. 17. 1734. +
347 Shammah Pomeroy. b. Oct. 24. 1736. +
348 Lucy Pomeroy. b. Feb. 15, 1739. +
349 Iosiah Pomeroy, b. July 21, 1741. +
350 Eunice Pomehoy. b. Sept. 8, 1743. +
351 Dorothy Pomeroy, b. Feb. 2, 1745. -^
352 Be.vjamin Pomeroy, b. March 10, 1747. +
353 ToN.xTHAN Pomeroy. b. Feb. 26, 1749; d. Oct. 4. 1791, Williamsburg:,
Mass.
70 GENERAL SETH POMEROY, (Ebenecer, Medad, Eltzveed). b.
May 20, 1706. Northampton; m. Dec. 14, 1732, Mary Hunt, b. Nov.
14, 1705, d. Sept. 11, 1777, dau. of Jonathan (Jonathan, John) Hunt
and Martha Williams, (dau. of Samuel Williams and Rhoda Park) ;
he d. at Peekskill, N. Y., Feb. 19. 1777, to which place he had led
the Northampton troops to join General Washington's army on the
Hudson. His boyhood and youth was largely occupied in learning
the trade of his fathers, and he had established an armory and man-
ufactured g^ns on a large scale, which were of excellent finish and
in great demand by the colonists, provincial troops and Indians. He
was a typical Pomeroy, large of heart, with indomitable will, sensi-
tive in feeling, sound of judgment with high and serene religious
priiKiples ; he had the courage, fortitude, business capacity, and regard
for law and good government which characterize the race.
5th gen. Children:
354 Rev. Seth Pomeroy, b. Sept. 26, 1733. +
355 OuARTus Pomeroy, b. May 14, 1735. +
356 Medad Pomeroy, b. Nov. 14, 1736. +
357 Lemuel Pomeroy, b. Sept. 24, 1738. +
358 Martha Pomeroy, b. Aug. 12, 1740. +
359 Mary Pomeroy, b. Aug. 6, 1742. +
360 Sarah Pomeroy, b. June 17, 1744. +
i m P«k<kill-..n.ihc.Hucl,oi, 1.V (he Snns .it ilie Re-olui
Ke.v \ otk
160 9oixrtif dtmrutUnx - Mehab
361 Son Pomeroy, b. and d. Feb., 1747.
362 AsAHEL Pomeroy, b. Dec. 1, 1749. +
Drakes's Dictionary of American Biography says of Gen. Seth Pome-
roy: **He was engaged while young in military duties. Captain in 1744;
Major at the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 ; in 1755 he was Lieutenant-
Colonel in William's regiment, from whose death he was chief commander
in the battle with Baron Dieskau. His regiment was the most prominent
in the engagement and suffered most in gaining the victory at Lake George.
He was a delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1744-5: in October, 1774.
he was chosen with Preble and Ward, a general officer, and in Februarv,
1775, a Brigadier-General. He fought as a private soldier at Bunker
Hill, and was in tlie hottest of the fight. His appointment as Senior Brig-
adier-General by Congress a few days after, causing j^ome diflFeronce in the
adjustment of questions of rank, he retired to his farm and twenty-eight
days later resigned. In the following year, however, when Xew Jersey was
overrun by the enemy, he headed the militia of his couiitv. and marched
to the TTudson river. He was an ingenious and skillful mechanic and manu-
facturer of arms, and a zealous and devoted patriot." See '* Pomeroy Men
in the Revolution" in the Addenda to this volume for services of Major-Gen-
eral Seth Pomeroy.
It is asserted by many writers that the press and general public receive
more willingly references to the military renown of a successful general than
of the interests which pertain to the activities of the civilian, during the period
of the Revolution. It will, however, be remembered that in every land, before
the citizen can follow the peaceful pursuits, the first requisite is the military
officer with his troops equipped for w*ar. It will not be denied that men
with military genius were in demand in the early days of the Colonies; and
it was soon demonstrated that General Seth Pomeroy possessed many of the
necessary qualifications of a leader of men in battle; a man of forceful char-
acter, executive ability and experience in warfare, with large resources at
command, fearless in the exercise of his duty, and a strong reliance upon the
providence of the Almighty for good.
He inherited the family traits of character, and the family business
of making guns. He employed many smiths, and manufactured large numbers
of guns, whose accuracy and finish won commendation for the product of his
armory i^rom every colony of pioneers. And the Indians on the far northern lakes
made persistent efforts to gain possession of a "Pomeroy gun." The Pomeroy
armory continued to supply the colonists with guns for six generations, as
his deiBoendants carried forward the business after the death of General Seth
Pomeroy, or until the Springfield Armory was established by the United
States government.
During the years of the French and Indian wars Gen. Seth Pomeroy de-
voted much of his time and attention to laying out and constructing the great
highways from the Connecticut Valley into Berkshire county, and over the
hills to Albany, which he had considered as a military necessity. He also took
an important part in all those wars between the colonists and their Canadian
neighbors, and the savages acting under the influence of the Jesuit priests.
Acting under commissions under the hand and seal of Governor Shirley,
Captain-Qeneral of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he also engaged in
erecting a line of forts along the northern frontier of the province.
In 1714, the French commenced to build a fort at Louisbourg, on the
island of Cape Briton, to be the "greatest fortress on earth," to menace and
command the New World. Over thirty million livres were expended by
France, "and all the energies and resources of her government for twenty
years" were devoted to its completion. "It was the greatest fortress in the
world in its time. The harbor was guarded by a battery of thirty twenty-
(SrttrabiQg df tl^r Pnmrroif IFamilg IZB
eight pounders on Goat Island and by the Royal battery of thirty heavy
guns, which raked the entrances." In 1745. Seth Pomeroy accepted a com-
mission as Major of Artillery, and it was with the above guns he had to
do. The land and harbor sides of the town were defended by lines of ramparts
and bastions on which eighty guns were mounted: the West Gate being sup-
ported by a battery of twenty-four pounders.
The lofty citadel was in the gorge of the King's bastion. This "greatest
fortress of modern times.'* which was considered impregnable, was the base
for the equipment of marauding bands of French and Indians for the purpose
of harassing and driving from their homos, the colonists of New England.
One can scarcely conceive, then, the impulse of splendid audacity which
prompted 4,000 New England home-makers to march up to that fortress and
lay siege to it, feebly assisted by Warren's West Indies fleet.
On May 8, 1745, Major Seth Pomeroy wrote to his wife: "The Grand
Battery is ours! Before we entered it the people had fled out of It, and gone
over to the town, but had stopped up the touch-holes of the cannon. General
Pepperell gave me the oversight of some twenty smiths in boring them out.
Cannon balls and bombs were flred from the city and the island fort into our
midst, but when we could get the cannon clear we gave them fire for flre from
their own guns."
In reply, his wife writes: "• • • The whole town is much moved
with concern for the expedition, how Providence will order the affair, for
which religious meetings every week in town are maintained. My dear
husband, I leave you in the hands of God, desiring to submit to His will, what-
ever it may be."
(Signed) "MARY POMEROY."
The capture of those great guns, and their destructive flre against the
enemy heralded the downfall of the great fortress. On June 15, 1745, after
a siege of thirty days, Louisbourg with its all but impregnable fortress was
reduced; and was surrendered by its commander. Governor Duchambon, to
a force of less than four thousand colonial militia. An entry in Major Seth
Pomeroy's journal says:
"Commodore Warren saith. that if the King of England had known its
strength he would not have sent less than twenty ships of the line and ten
thousand regular forces to attack Louisbourg."
During this period Major Seth Pomeroy held several offices of trust In
the service of the colony, although at intervals he was called upon to muster
recruits and march to the Vermont frontier to repel expected invasions from
Canada. He had several commissions from Governor Shirley, Captain-General
and Qovernor-in-Chief and over His Majesty's Possessions of Massachusetts
Bay in New England, etc., the originals of which are in the possession of
George Eltweed Pomeroy, of Toledo, Ohio, a great-great-grandson.
There were comparatively few alarms of war for ten years following the
capture of Louisburg, to call Major Seth Pomeroy into the field, but during
that time the French settlements had been gradually encroaching upon our
frontiers and measures were taken in 1755 to protect the colonists against
Indian depredations, and an expedition was organized against Crown Point,
commanded by Sir William Johnson. Of the contingent furnished by Massa-
chusetts, Seth Pomeroy held the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and after the
deaAh of Colonel Williams early in the engagement, he took over the command
as ranking officer and defeated Baron Dieskau after a conflict laaiting several
hours. General Dieskau was wounded and taken prisoner, and his army
routed after a loss of more than one thousand men. After this battle Seth Pome-
roy received a commission as colonel, vice Williams killed in battle. On another
page will be found an etching of this document. The reader, although con-
versant with all the episodes of this Lake George engagement, will perhaps
find the appended report interesting as it was written by:
r
in Jfourttf (Srttrratton - Mehsh
dolnnrl 9rtl| P^merog to (EnUtttFl iara^l VUltaittB
*'Lake George, Sept 9, 1755.
''Honored and Dear Sir:
"Yesterday was a memorable day. I being the only field officer in Col.
Ephraim Williams' regiment supposed to be living, think it my duty to let
you know what happened on the 8th of this instant, which was yesterday.
This forenoon, until two of the clock having been spent in council, and many
letters to be written, I must be excused for my shortness and imperfections.
"On the Sabbath, just at night, we had news that a large body of men
marched up Wood creek southwardly. Supposing that they intended to cut
off our wagons, or attack the Fort at the carrying place, we sent on Monday
morning about 1200 men, near 200 of them being Indians, commanded by Col.
Williams, Col. Whiting, and Col. Cole of Rhode Island, to attack them. Whit-
ing was in the middle. Cole bringing up the rear, and Old Hendrick, King of
the Six Xations, before with Col. Williams. When they had advanced about
three miles the guns began to fire. It was then between 10 and 11 of the
clock. W> put ourselves into as good a position of defense as we could, not
knowing but what our men would retreat and bring the enemy upon us. To
our great surprise it was not long before they retreated. Those who came
first were bringing wounded men with them, and others soon flocked in by
hundreds, a perpetual fire being kept up and drawing nearer and nearer, till
nearly 12 of the clock, when the enemy came in sight.
"The regulars marched, as near as I could tell, about six deep and nearly
twenty rods in length, in close order, the Indians and Canadians at the last
wing helter-skelter, the woods being full of them. They came within about twenty
rods and fired in regular platoons, but we soon broke their order by firing our
field pieces at them. The Indians and Canadians directly took trees within
handy gun shot. They fought with undaunted courage till about 5 of the clock in
the afternoon, when we got the ground. I cannot tell our loss nor the loss of
the enemy yet with any certainty. As soon as they retreated, I ran out upon
the ground before where I stood to fight and found ten dead and three
wounded. Among these last was the General of f he French army and his Aide,
whom I ordered carried to my tent. He came with the sure assurance to lodge
in our tents that night, and to his great surprise, he did, but, blessed be God,
as a wounded captive.
"Col. Williams was shot dead in a moment, and before he had time to fire
his gun. Capt. Hawley was also shot mortally before he fired his gun. My
brother. Lieutenant Daniel Pomeroy*, I have an account of as being well till
the army retreated. He asked, 'What! are we going to run?' 'Yes,' it was said.
'Well,' he replied, 'I will give them one more shot before I run.' Further of
him I do not hear. Our people are out burying their dead now; when they
return I can give a more particular account. We design to make a stand here
until we have a sufficient reinforcement. What number that must be I can not
now tell, but it is sure the enemy still intend to stop us before we get to
Crown Point.
"The French General saith, that 'if we give them one more such a dressing,
Crown Point and all their country will be ours.' They however intend to put
a stop to that. But I hope to God they will be disappointed, for I Judge,
humanly speaking, that all depends on this expedition. Therefore, I pray
God would fire the breasts of this people with a true zeal and noble, generous
spirit to the help of the Lord against the mighty. And I trust that those who
value our holy religion and our liberties, will spare nothing, even to the one-
half of their estates. General Johnson was shot in the thigh, but the bone
was not broken. Major-General Lyman was not injured. Both behaved with
steadiness and resolution.
"I desire the prayers of God's people for us, that we may not turn our
*His dead body was recovered and brought in later In the day.
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backs upon our enemies, but stand and make a glorious defence for ourselves
and our country.
"From your most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) "SETH POMEROY."
To tlie E^rl of Lincoln, who had demanded to know of him in 1736,
"Whether the trooi>s, raised by the several Colonies, would act in conjunction
with His Majesty's forces, according: to his Majesty's command," he replied:
"Yes: but only upon the condition that the terras agreed upon by the several
governments should not be altered." And this reply was prophetic. Less than
twenty years later came the great struggle for colonial liberty Involved In the
question and reply, and Major-General Seth Pomeroy was found at the front.
Colonel Seth Pomeroy's commissions under the name and authority of
the King of England made it necessary for him to take the oath of abjuration
when he was appointed by the Colonial Congress Pirst-Brigadier-General in
the Colonial Army.
71 LIEUT. DAXIEL POMEROY, (Ebcucccr, Mcdud, Eltwcai). b.
March 27, 170), Xortliampton : in. ( 1) May J5. 1733, Mary Clap|),
b. Sept. 21. 1713, d. June C\ 1734, dau. of Samuel Clapp ( Preserved.
Captain Roj^cr) of Xortliampton and Mary Sheldon (^his third wife),
who was dau. of Ensij^n John Sheldon oi Deerfield: Mary Sheldon,
mother of Mary Clapp was a captive to the Indiauji who attacked
Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, and taken to Canada, where she remained a
prisoner three years: he m. (2) Xov. 4, 1736, Rachel Moseley'\
b. 1715, dau. of Joseph and Abiprail Moscley: she survived him and
m. Lieut Moses Dewey of Westfield, June *), 1763: she d. Feb. 1,
1797, in Northampton, ae. 82 years. Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy was in
Col. Williams' regiment, with his brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Seth
Pomeroy, and was killed at the Battle of Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755,
in the assault on the position of the French and Indians under com-
mand of Baron Dieskau, who was afterwards defeated and captured
bv Col. Seth. Pomerov.
jth gcu. Child by ist wife:
363 Pliny Pomeroy, b. Mav 19, 1734. +
Children by 2d icifc:
364 Major Daniel Pomeroy, b. Xov. 3. 1737. +
365 Abigail Pomeroy, b. Sept. 19. 1739. -f-
366 Abishai Pomeroy, b. June 11, 1741 : d. Ian. 21, 1742.
367 Timothy Pomeroy, b. April 16, 1742. +
368 Rachel Pomeroy, b. Jan. 14, 1744-45; m. as his second wife,
Quartus, (355), son of Gen. Seth Pomeroy and wife Mary Hunt. +
369 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. March 7, 1746-47. +
370 William Pomeroy, b. May 8, 1750. +
371 Eleanor Pomeroy, b. Oct. 20, 1752. 4-
372 IiTSTiN Pomeroy, b. Julv 20, 1755 ; d. 1790.
* Rachel Moseley's anceetor, Lieut. John Moseley, was one of the "Foun-
dation men" of the First Church in Westfield, Mass., as were Quartermaster
George Colton and Lieut. Thomas Cooper of Spriugfleld, and Major Benjamin
Newberry of Connecticut. They all took part In King Philip's War. Lieut.
Cooley was slain in the Indian attack on Springfield in 1675. John Moseley
(Mandesley), who settled in Dorchester, was ancestor of most of the Moseleys
in the United States.
173 Sfourtlf (Snvration - 0bhs^
Lake George, Sept. 11, 1755.
Dear Sister:
This brings heavy tidings. But let not your heart sinque at the news tho it
be your loss of a Dear Husband. Monday the 8 instant was a memorable day, and
truly you may say had not the Lord been on our side we must all ben swallowed
up. My Brother being one that went out in the rirst engagement after fighting a
considerable time, received a fatal shot through the middle of head. Yesterday I
went out with 3 or 400 men to bury the dead & gati er up what was left. We
buried a hundred & thirty six of our men; there is now about 20 more. Sonie
we have buried here in the camp, one we brot in alive with the back part of his
scull cut off, and his brains naked, had set there until that time & is alive yet, but
I suppose is not possible ho can live. Sister pray this awful Providence may be
sanctified to you & your children's everlasting good, and I pray God to have mercy
on your poor Fatherless children, and may you have wisdom & providence to train
them up in the way of Virtue and Religion, so they may be blessings in the world
&: may it please God to continue their lives and that we may all be put in mind
of our own frailty & mortality so that we may be ready for our turn. We must
all in a little time bo numbered with the dead. I shall take care of Bros, things if
God gives opportunity.
Your Loving Bro.
Seth Pomeroy.
Mrs. Rachel Pomeroy.
Springfield, Long M. Sept 22, 1755.
Dear & Loinng Sister:
I was very sensibly touched when I heard of the surprising news of the death
of your dear and desirable consort, highly valued, esteemed & respected by me,
who has left a most precious name among you, and doubtless in the army where
he lately resided & fell, bravely lighting in the defence of his King &: Country, his
Relations & dear family and all our valuable interests, & altho his death may to you
appear atended with peculiar agravations in that he died from home, by the hand of
cruel enemies, instantly destructcd from a state of health & activity into Eternity — yet
surely he died in a bed of honor & 1 hope is gone to the peaceful realms of light &
glory, where there will bo no more war, nor lightings through an endless Eternity.
Dear Madam you must not sorrow as one that has no hope. The God of the Widow
and Father of the Fatherless Bless you & your dear children. There is many
families through the land at this day in your circumstances. Particularly Left Burt
my dear friend and Xabor, died in the same bed of honor with your dear Husband
& has left a sorrowtull wiio and 4 children. The Lord bless you all and particularly
give you & yours all iho couMilation & comfort of his Holy Spirit you stand in
need of under this heavy stroke of Mis holy hand. My love to you & ydur dear
children. My family in usual health. I am.
Your aff. & sympathising Bro.
Jonathan Stebbins.
72 THAXKFL'L POMEROY, (Ebcnccer, Mcdad, Eiticeed), b. July
12, 1713, Xorthaniptoii ; m. June 22, 1738, Gad Lyman, b. Feb. 13,
1813, d. Oct. 24, 1791, Goshen, ilass., son of John and Mindwell
Lyman ; she d. Aug. 12, 1790, Resided, Goshen, Mass.
3th gen. Children:
373 Capt. Oliver Lvmax, b. April 1, 1739; m. about 1760, Eleanor
Lyman, dan. of Joseph ; lived at N'orthampton imtil 1767, after whicli
date they moved to Charlotte, V't. ; both died there. +
374 JcRusHA Lyman, b. Nov. 18, 1740; m. Hon. John Phelps of West-
field, son of Lieut. John Phelps; gr. Yale College, 1759; she d. Oct.
1. 1768; he m. (2) 1777. Mercy Moseley; he d. May 10, 1802. -«-
375 Thankful Lyman, b. June 9, 1742; m. Alexander Grant; she d.
Sept. 9, 1770, at Northampton.
dtmala^Xi at tf|r Pomrrag JFamilg 1 74
376 Liei;t. Timothy Lvmax. h. July 4, 1745: in. I fannah Colsnn, h.
\ov. 20, 1743. P>(>ston. Mass., d. I'^eb. 7, 181S: lie. d. at (joshcn,
Mass., Feb. 23. 1818. +
377 Eunice Lvmax. b. May 27, 1747: ni. (li Rev. Mr. Mills: m. (2»
Mr. Soiithwortli.
378 Trvi'MEna Lvmax. b. April 30. 174'>: ni. { 1) Saniiic! Williams: m.
(2) Timothy Diitton cf Xorthfickl.
6fh i^cu. Children of Oliver and Eleanor Lyman. (S73J-
37*) Adigail Lvmax. b. April 18, 17(»2: ni. 17S1. IC[)liraim \\(H)>icr <it*
Litchfield.
380 Charlotte Lvmax, b. Nov. 22, 1763: m. Juno 14, 1783. Ezra Clark.
381 Gad Lvmax. b. Auir. 23, 17o6: m. I'rudeiico Cill ••! lluntiiii^ion.
Mass.
382 Oliver Lvmax, b. Mav 31, 1768: d. 17'\^ in Xow forscv: num.
383 Medad Lvm.\x, b. March 18. 1770: m. .\nna Clapp, cl. Dec. 13, 1802.
dau. of Benjamin Clapp r»t Eastliampton. Mass.: ho ni. (2» Dec. 3,
1805, Mrs. Olive Mead': he. d. Feb. 3, 1813.
384 Jared Lvmax. b. Sept. (>, 1772: m. Zeruiah Tiircli : niovcil to
Charlotte, \'t.. thence to L>rid^ci)ori, where he d. Jan. fi, 1813.
385 Ele.\nor Lvmax, b. June 26, 1775 : d. 1777.
Children of Jcrusha and John Phclf's, f^^"-! i:
386 JopiN Phelps, b. Aug. 7. 1764: d. March 20. 1767.
387 John Phelps, b. June 15. 1767: gr. Harvard College, 1787; m.
Elizabeth Boies of Bland ford, Mass. 4-
388 \ViLLL\M Hexricus Phelps, b. July 31. 1765.
Children of Tiniothv and Hannah Lynuin, ( ^76i:
389 Thankful Lvmax. b. May 6, 1771 : d. 1777.
390 Jerusha Lvmax. b. March 6, 1773: m. Ceorge Salmon: d. 1838-9
at I**ulton, X. Y.
391 John Colson Lvmax. b. Jan. 20, 1773; m. Xov. 7, 179*.>. Susan
Burgess, who d. June 26. 1800; m. (2) Xov. 7, 1827, (unknown) ; he
d. March 12, 1854.
392 Mary Lvmax, b. Feb. 1, 1777; d. 1777.
393 William Lvmax, b. Feb. 21, 1778; m. Dec. 18, 1792, Agnes Mitchell,
dau. of Hugh.
394 Timothy Lyman, b. Jan. 20, 1780; m. Hannah White, dau. of
William White: d. Dec. 26, 1831.
395 Francis Lyman, b. Feb. 3, 1781: m. (1) Helen Mitchell, dau. of
Hugh Mitchell; she d. May 26. 1831; he m. (2) April 10, 1839,
Lucinda Parsons, b. April 12, 1802: he d. July 5, 1851, Cioshen, Mass.
396 Thomas Lyman, b. Feb. 12, 1783; m. 1812-13, Dorcas Smith of
Goshen; he d. 1822.
397 Abigail Lyman, b. about 1788; m. Dr. Daniel Parce; d. ilarch 1,
1868.
///t gen. Children of John and Elizabeth Phelps, (387):
398 Melissa Phelps, b. Aug. 7, 1796; m. April 22, 1835, Silas Pratt
Wright, iM. D., b. Jan. 26, 1794, d. March 27, 1858; she d. Feb.,
1880.
Sth gat. Child of Melissa and Silas P. IVrii^ht, (398):
399 Er.izABETH Phelps Wright, b. March 24, 1836; ni. June 15, 1864.
Rev. Wilham Ely Boies, b. Jan. 27, 1823, Charleston, S. C, son ni
Rev. Artemus Boies and wife Abigail El v.
400 Sh.as Pratt Wright, b. June 28, 1839. '
9//1 i^cn. Children of Elizabeth P, and Rev. IVilliam E. Boies,
(399)'
401 Elizabeth Boies, b. May 1, 1865; m. Leon Jourohnon, Esq., Knox-
ville, Tenn., d. March 12, 1893, Knoxville, Tenn.
402 William Artemus Boies, b. April 10, 1871, Longineadow, Mass.:
physician at Knoxville, Tenn.
74 MEDAD POMEROY, {Joseph, Medad. Elhi^eed). b. July 18, 1695,
Northampton; m. Feb. 12, 1718, Hannah Trumbull, dau. of John
Trumbull and Elizabeth Winchell. and aunt of Gov. Jonathan
Trumbull of Connecticut, b. Oct. 2, 1697. In 1730, Medad was
constable of Suffield, Conn., and received 20 shillings i)er year for
his services. He was fence-viewer in 1731-2; also, in 1739; sur-
veyor of highways in 1739, and selectman in 1741, 1742, 1744; and
assessor in 1743, in place of Noah Smith, deceased; also, assessor
at other times. At an anniversary town meeting of free holders
and other inhabitants of Suffield to choose officers and for other
matters of concernment, March 5, 174J, Medad Pomeroy was chosen
Selectman ; also assessor. At a legal town meeting of the inhabitants
of Suffield, held Jan. 22, 1744, "1st, Medad Pomeroy was chosen
Moderator to order said meeting." .\t an anniversary town meeting
1744-5, "Medad Pomeroy was again chosen Moderator;" and "In
174f he was chosen Moderator.'* He served with distinction in
several engagements with the French and Indians. He d. June
11, 1767.
5th gen. Children b. in Suffield, Conn.:
403 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1720. +
404 Hannah Pomeroy. b. June 6. 1721. +
405 Experience Pomeroy, b. June 4, 1723. -I-
406 Jerusha Po.meroy. b. Aug. 14, 1725 ; m. Xov. 17, 1753, Ebenezer
Selden, b. May 17, 1720; d. March 26, 1760. They settled at
Agawam, 1754. +
407 Medad Pomeroy, b. Dec. 17, 1730. +
408 Seth Pomeroy, b. Dec. 14, 1732. +
409 Phinehas Pomeroy, b. April 7, 1738. +
Hannah Trumbull, who m. Medad Pomeroy, was a great-grand-daugh-
ter of John Trumbull, the head of the family in America. He came from
Newcastle-on-Tine, England, to New England, in 1637, bringing with
him a wife and child. He m, July 7, 1635, in the Church of All-Saints,
Newcastle, Eleanor Chandler. He settled first in Roxbury, and became a
member of Mr. Elliott's church; later he moved to Rowley, Mass., and
<Kntralii9g of % Pomrrog Jfamtlg 17B
taught the first school there; he was town clerk; d. 1657. His son, Joseph,
was b. in Rowley, March 10. 1647; m. 1668-9. Hannah Smith, dau. of
Hugh, of Rowley; he moved to Suffield. Conn., where he d. Aug. 15, 1684;
his widow d. in East Windsor, Oct. 5, 1689. Their son. John Trumbull,
was also b. in Rowley, Xov. 27, 1670; m. in Suffield, Sept. 3. 16%, Elizabeth
Winchcll, dau. of David Winchell and Elizabeth Filley, of Suffield, b.
Dec. 9, 1675; he d. in Suffield, Jan. 3, 1751.
76 HAXXAH POMEROY, (Joseph, Mcdad. Elr.cccd). b. April 12,
1700; m. Xov. 6, 1722, Samuel Granger of Suffield, son of Thomas,
(and grandson of Launcelot, whose descendants established a line
of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, Luncelot being the first of
the name in America, and his birth is not recorded, but his death
was in 1689; his wife was Johanna Adams, dau. of Robert Adams.
b. 1601, the American ancestor of one of the notable Adams families)
and Mindwell (Taylor) Granger, dau. of Stephen Taylor and
Elizabeth Xewell.
j)fh i^cn. Children, b, Suffield, Conn,:
410 Zerbi.mi Granger, b. Xov. 22, 1723; d. March 14, 1810: unm.
411 Lemuel Granger, b. July 9, 1726; m. Annie He was Captain
of a company, 2d regiment. Connecticut Line.
412 Simeon Granger, b. Dec. 28, 1728; m. Abigail Dudley, b. 1737;
soldier of the Revolution. +
413 Daniel Granger, b. Xov. 25, 1731 : soldier of the Revolution, 2d
regt. Conn. Line: died in the service, Dec. 31. 1778.
414 Capt. Samuel Granger, b. Jan. 5, 1733-4: m. Anna Lyman, dau.
of Dea. Aaron Lyman and Eunice Dwight (dau. of Rev. Josiah
Dwight of Woodstock) ; he was a soldier of the Revolution: d. Aug.
19, 1818. +
415 Ar.NER Granger, b. Feb. 3, 1736; m. Experience King: he d. Oct.
15, 1816.
416 Hannah Granger, b. Feb. 20, 1737: m. Dudlev Kent: she d. April
21
417 AscHER Granger, b. Jan. 17, 1745; m. Tabitha Ball.
418 Susanna Granger, d. young.
6ih j^en. Child of Simeon and Abii^ail Granf^er, (^fJ):
419 Anna Granger, b. 1798: m. Louis Elv, a soldier of the Revolution,
who d. 1815.
Children of Samuel and Anna Granger, (^14):
420 Fanny Granger, m. Stephen Barnard; she d. 1851.
421 Amelia Granger.
422 Nancy Granger, d. unm.
77 JOSEPH POMEROY, (Joseph, Medad, Eltu^eed), b. July 15, 1702,
SufHeld Conn.; m. July 10, 1727, Thankful Burbank, dau. of Eben-
ezer; resided in Suffield; she d. 1796; he d. Sept. 25, 1787.
5th gen. Children:
423 Thankful Pomerov, b. July 23, 1728. -^
177 Jfourttf (Sntrration - Mthsh
424 Sarah Pomkroy, b. Aug. 31. 1731. "^
425 Anna Pomerov. b. Sept. 25, 1733. +
426 JosErii Pomerov, b. Oct. 12. 1735 ; responded to the Lexington alarm.
427 EiTNiCE Pomerov. b. Xov. 19, 1737.
428 Mercy Pomerov, bp. April 24, 1740; m. Xov. 27, 1760, Josiah Cass,
b. Hebron, Conn.. Feb. 2, 1738; she d. May 16, 1781.
42*) Ebenezer Pomerov. b. Jan. 2^), 1742, d. Aug., 1742.
430 Josiah Pomerov. b. June 8, 1743; m. July 3, 1774, Ann Allis of
Hartford.
431 Isaac Pomerov, b. Aug. 6, 1745. +
'78 REV. BEXIAMIX POMEROY, (Joseph. Mcdad. Elhcccd). b.
Xov. 11, 1704, Suffield, Conn.; A. B., Yale, 1733; D. D., Dartmouth,
1774; m. Oct. 23. 1734, Abigail Wheelock. dau. of Dea. Ralph
Wheelock and Ruth Huntington. He was minister in Hebron, Conn.,
from 1734 to 1784; Chaplain in the army during the French and
Indian wars : Chaplain of the 3d regt. Connecticut Line, from Jan.,
1777, to July. 1778. His tombstone in Hebron bears the following
inscription :
"Along the gentle slope of life's decline
He bent his gradual way,
Till full of years, he drops
Life's mellow fruit into the grave."
"Here lies the body of the Rev. Benj. Pomerov, D. D., minister of
the First Church of Hebron, and a trustee of Dartmouth College.
Xative of Suffield. Ob. Dec. 21st, 1784; aged 81. For 50 years
a zealous preacher of the gospel, and eminently successful about
1743. A Patron of learning, a firm and active Pastor and a friend
to the distressed."
5th gen. Children:
432 Benjamin Pomerov. b. Jan. 9, 1736; he was a Surgeon in the 4th
Conn, regt., of wliich his father was Chaplain ; d. in that service
during the French War, at Skaneateles, Dec. 8, 1757, or 1760.
433 Ralph Pomerov, b. Dec. 8, 1737. + ^
434 Eleazar Wheelock Pomerov, b. Sept. 1, 1739. +
435 Josiah Pomerov, b. Sept. 4, 1741; d. Sept. 11, 1742.
436 Abigail Pomerov, b. May 31, 1744. +
437 Josiah Pomerov. b. June 18, 1745. +
438 Samuel Pomerov. b. Xov. 19. 1747; d. Jan. 16, 1748.
439 Hannah Pomerov. b. Jan. 28. 1748-9; d. March 29, 1749.
440 Hezekiah Pomerov. b. July 17, 1750; d. Jan. 3, 1755.
441 Hannah Pomerov, b. Dec. 8. 1751. 4-
442 John Pomerov, b. March 5. 1754; d. April 27, 1754-5.
443 Elihu Pomerov, b. Aug. 19, 1755. +
444 Augustus Wheelock Pomerov. b. Feb. 14, 1758; d. Jan. 24, 1759.
"Rev. Benjamin Pomeroy, son of Joseph Ponieroy, and grand-son of
Deacon Medad and Experience (Woodward) Pomeroy of Northampton,
Mass., was bom in Suffield (then in Massachusetts afterwards incorpor-
»
dtwala^^ of tifp Pomrrog J^amily 17B
ated in Connecticut), Xov. VK 1704, and was so far as appears the oldest
at graduation ot any of the students ( Vale I commoniorated in this volume.
His mother was Hannah Seymour. clau|ijhtcr of Richard, Jr., of Hartford,
Conn.*' — C Barber's Historical Collection.)
"He resided at the College a year after graduation as one of the first
scholars on Dean Berkley's foundation, receiving as the income £16. He
seems at the same time to have prosecuted the study of theology, as he l)egan
in 1734 to preach in Hebron. Conn., where he was ordained Pastor Dec.
16, 1735. Soon after the great revival in 1740 began, he identified himself
with the movement, and thenceforth labored abundantly to promote it. In
June, 1742, after the law had been passed for correcting disorders in preach-
ing, Mr. Pomeroy was accused before the ("leneral Assembly ni disorderly
conduct at Stratford, in company with his friend, James Davenport, (Yale
College, 1732) and was brought to Hartford for trial, but was dismissed
by the Assembly as having been cc^mparatively blameless.
"A summons was ai::ain issued by the Assembly. October, 1743. com-
manding his appearance to answer to charges of violation of law. Accord-
ingly, he appeared at the next session, in May. 1744, was found guilty and
compelled to bear the co.sts of the pn^sccution. He also, about this time,
preached in the neighboring parish of Colchester without the leave of the
resident minister and was in consequence deprived of his salary for several
vears.'*
Rev. Dr. Timothv Coolev of Granville, Mass.. said in conversation with
Benjamin Pomeroy of Stonington, Esq., in 1850: "After personal contact
with George Whitfield your grandfather accepted the new teachings and
thenceforth his opinions and preachings were much influenced by them."
Alluding to the suspension from the ministry for preaching in another parish
contrary to the wishes of the resident clergyman, he said: "Your grand-
father said : *Sir, those seven years that I was deprived of my stated salary
were the most fruitful years of my ministry f for he went up and down
country and wherever he found two men and a hay-stack he had a pulpit
and a congregation and he proclaimed the Gospel to them."
"The late Dr. Pomeroy and his brother-in-law. Dr. W'heelock, were the
first who received the interest of the legacy given by Rev. Dean Berkeley
to the best classical scholars of the senior class in Yale College." * * *
"Samson Occuni, the celebrated Indian preacher, lived a year with Dr.
Pomeroy studying Latin and Greek." — (Life of Wheelock, 1811.)
His marriage to the sister of his classmate. Dr. Wheelock, caused his
active interest in the establishment of the Indian Charity School and its
successor, Dartmouth College. In the summer of 1766 he took a journey
to consult Sir William Johnson as to the best place for building the
future college; and in 1770 he accompanied Dr. Wheelock on the visit to
Hanover, which finally determined the site. He was named as one of the
original trustees of the college and continued in office till his death. The
same college conferred upon him the degree of D. D. in 1774. For more
than a year before his death he was entirely blind. A sermon preached
soon after his death by his son-in-law, the Rev. David McClure, Yale
College, 1769, was printed.
The Rev. Samuel A. Peters, (Yale, 1757), who was born and bred
17B Jourtif (Sntrration - Mehsh
in Hebron, Conn., wrote of him in 1781 as "An excellent scholar, an ex-
emplary g^entleman, and a most tlumderinj:^ preacher of the Xcu Lij^ht
order." The Rev. Benjamin Trumbull, (Yale, 175*M. who was also brought
up under Dr. Pomeroy's preaching, describes him as a "Man of real genius,
grave, solemn and weighty in his discourses, which were generally well
composed, and delivered with a great deal of animation, zeal and affection.
He might l)e reckoned among the best preachers of his day."
Another parishioner, the Rev. David Porter. (Dartmouth, 1784), wrote
of him in 1848. **He possessed considerable native talent and more than
ordinary attainments in literature and science. Xor was he less dis-
tinguished for wit and sarcasm. At the conunencement of hostilities between
the American Coloa-ies and (Ireat Britain, he showed himself a warm
friend to the cause of Independence."
IT? ptiblished nothing, but s«ime of his letters found the way into
print, among them one written to Sir William Johnson in 1762, in the "Doc-
umentary History of N'ew York:" \"ol. iv, p. 316. It was in March. 1758,
that he was appointed Chaplain of the 3d Connecticut regiment: and in
March, 1759, Chaplain of the 4th Connecticut, of which his son, Benjamin,
Jr., had been appointed Surgeon.
In 1757 Rev. Benjamin Pomeroy was at Port Edward, Chaplain of the
3(\ Connecticut, in 1759 at Lake George and Crown Point, Chaplain of the
4th Connecticut, and in 1760 with the expedition into Canada. His ser-
vices as Chaplain in the War of the Revolution will be found on another
page under the head. "Pomeroy Men in the Revolution."
79 NATHAXIEL POMEROY, (Joseph, Medad, Eltwecd), b. Jan.
23, 1706. Suffield : m. July 18. 1733. .^usanna Seymour, b. .\pril 13,
1706. bp. April 14, 1706. flartfnrd. Conn., d. Feb. 27, 1778, dan. of
John Seymour and Elizabeih Webster, of Hartford ; (John Sey-
mour gave several of his children farms near Xew Hartford) ;
Xathaniel was survevor of highvvavs for Suffield : he d. there Feb.
20, 1781.
^th gen. Children:
445 Capt. XATif.wiKL PnMKRov. b. May 23, 1734. +
446 Llxina Pomerov, b. Oct. 27, 1736. +
447 Susanna Pomerov. b. Jan. 17. 1738; m. Sept. 16, 1765, Ichabod
Smith of Suffield, Conn.
448 John Pomerov, b. March 7, 1741. +
449 Daniel Pomerov. b. Feb. 19, 1744. +
450 Asa Pomeroy, b. June 1, 1749. +
80 NOAH POMEROY, {Joseph. Medad. Eltiveed). b. Oct. 20, 170^),
Suffield, Conn.: m. Aug. 26, 1732, Abigail Remington, perhaps dau.
of John, (John, Thomas, John), who was b. Suffield, 1692, d. Sept.
26, 1813 ; he was appointed sealer of leather for Suffield ; he d
5th gen. Children:
451 Noah Pomeroy, b. Jan. 24, 1733. 4-
452 Abigail Pomeroy, b. April 3, 1734; d. May 29, 1734.
453 Eliakim Pomeroy, b. May 3, 1735. 4-
(Sntralosg of tt^r Pottt^rog JFamilg IfiO
454 Ahigail Pomerov, b. ( )ct. 14, 1736. +
455 Simeon Pomeroy. b. July 20. 1738: d. Jan. 30. 1761.
456 Dan Pomeroy, b. March 26, 1740: ni. and removed Id Canaan, Col-
umbiana county. X. Y. ; the new census of 1790 credits Dan with a
fainilv of two males over sixteen, one male under sixteen, and two
females. When Mr. Xortli entered upon this census he had an op-
portunity to make a .sjovernment work of great value, but he wa<
eniinently successful in evading: it.
457 Sarah Pomerov. b. Aug. 2. 1741.
458 JoxATHAN Pomerov, b. Sept. 15, 1743. 4-
459 Elijah Pomerov. b. April 15, 1745.
460 Epaphras Po.merov. b. July 12, 174^>: d. Aug. 20.- 1731.
461 Rl'th Pomerov, b. Feb. 8, 1751. 4-
462 Elizabeth Pomeroy. b. Sept. 24, 1752.
463 Epafhras Pomerov. b. April 4, 1753 : d. April 3, 1764.
163 CATHERINE POMEROV. {Samuel, Mcdad, Eltzcccd), b. May 4,
1708, Newtown, Conn.: m. Mav 25, 1720. [acob Riker of Newtown,
who d. 1778, New York City. He established bakery business,
in Beekman street, Xew York : at the beginning of the Revolution
they moved to Rhinebeck : no date of her death.
3th gen. Children:
464 LvDiA Riker. b. 1732: m. Capt. Isaac Sheldon. 4-
465 Abraham Riker, b. 1734: m. Oct. 20. 1757, Sarah Rousby, dau. of
Henry Rousby. (who was son of the widow of Capt. William Kidd.
who m. (2) Christopher Rousby i. +
466 Margaret Riker. b. 1740: m. Sept. 2, 1766, Capt. Abraham Riker. +
467 C.xtherin'e Riker. b. 1742: m. (1) Capt. Dennis Candy; m. (2)
Cornelius Bradford.
468 Elizabeth Riker. m. Capt. George Collins.
6th gen. Children of Lydia and Isaac Sheldon, (^64):
469 L\DiA Sheldon, m. Thomas W'ooster. son of James Wooster, a
soldier of the Revolution. 4-
470 Marv Pomeroy Sheldon, m. Capt. Liscombe of Lanesboro, Mass. +
471 Elizabeth Sheldon, m. Mr. Verstile.
Children of Abraham and Sarah Riker. (463):
All Sarah Riker, b. 1768; m. John Walgrove of Dobbs' Ferry, N. Y.
473 E.MMA Riker, b. 1772; m. William Whitehead of Perth Amboy, N. J.
474 John Riker, b. 1780; moved to Philadelphia, Pa.
Child of Margaret and Abraham Riker, (466):
475 Jane Riker, b. 1768; m. June 8, 1791, Rev, Asa Hillyer,
/th gen. Children of Lydia and Thomas IVooster, (46^):
476 Isaac Wooster.
477 Charles Wooster. Admiral in the Chilian navv.
478 Maria Wooster. m. Prof. Turner of New Haven, Conn.
Children of Mary and Capt. Liscombe, (470):
479 Lydia Liscombe, m. John Wesley Jarvis. Portrait artist.
480 Eliza Liscombe.
101 JTmirttf (Sntrratuin - OUdrb
164 ABIGAIL POMEROV, iSanmci Mcdad. Eltivccd). b. July 8.
1710; m. Jonathan Hazard. The old Hazard homestead is still (1903)
in perfect preservation in Xevvtown, Conn.
5/A gen. Child:
481 James Hazard, b. 1752, Xewtown, Conn.
167 ELIZABETH POMEROY. {SamncK Mcdad, Eltweed), b. Nov. 16.
1717; m. Dec. 11, 1734, Philip Edsall.
f/A gen. Children:
482 Samuel Edsall, b. about 1744: d. Oct. 11, 1806, in his 62d year.
483 Elizabeth Edsall. b ; m. Judge Benjamin Coe.
6th gen. Children of Elizabeth and Benjamin Coe, (483):
484 Samuel Coe, d. young.
485 Phebe Coe, m. .\aron I'urman.
486 Elizabeth Coe, m. Thomas Betts.
487 Benjamin' Coe. b. liiK 11, 1784: m. Catherine Xostrand, dau. of
John: he d. Aug. 17, 1817.
168 SAMUEL FRENCH POMEROY, {SamneL Caleb, Eitweed), b.
1691, Northampton: m. Jan. 30, 1722, Hannah Crasson Hannum,
dau. of John Hannum and Elizabeth Crasson, b. 1700, d. 1793; he
was a tailor in 1720, and made men's garments: for a pair of "leather
breeches he received 5s, for a coat and jacket 3s 6d, and for linen
breeches 2s 6d :" he died about 1760. Residence, Southampton,
where he received an additional grant of the school lands.
fith gen. Children:
488 Samuel Pomerov. h. Sept. 7, 1720, 4-
489 Hannah Pomerov. b. May 23, 1732. 4-
490 Aaron Pomerov. h. April 22, 1734. -t-
4*>1 Anna Po.mer()v. b. 1736. -^
173 CALEB POMEROY, (Samuel, Caleb. EU-u'ced). b. Oct. 2, 1707.
Northampton: m. Nov. 15, 1733, Thankful Phelps, b. 1710, North-
ampton, d. in Southampton, dau. of William Phelps and Thankful
Edwards : farmer at Easthampton ; d. in Southampton, where he
resided in 1783.
^th i^en. Children:
492 Abner Pomerov, b. Sept. 7, 1734. +
4^3 Elijah Pomerov, b. April 22. 1736. 4-
494 Eleanor Pomerov. b. April 11, 1738. ~
495 Caleb Pomerov, b. July 10, 1740. +
496 CiiLOE Pomerov, b. Nov. 29, 1741. 4-
497 Joel Pomerov. b. 1743; went south and all trace lost.
498 En OS Pomerov. b. about 1746. 4-
499 Thankful Pomerov, b. 1747; m. 1778, Jacob Pomeroy, (626), son
of Elisha Pomerov and Mercv Searle.
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<Srtt»alii0g of ttfp Pomrrog Jfamtlg 1B2
500 Gershom Pomeroy, b. about 1749; m. 1779, Sarah Bartlett; Revolu-
tionary service, from Southampton, April 21, 1775, private in Capt.
Lemuel Pomeroy's company; Aug. 1, 1775, sergeant in Capt. Lemuel
Pomeroy's company; Sept. 10, 1777, corporal in Capt. Abner Pome-
roy's company. He was drowned in the river near Easthampton soon
after his marriage ; his Bible was found with him.
501 Solomon Pomeroy, bp. Jan. 26, 1752. +
502 Phebe Pomeroy, b. 1754; m. in 1779, Timothy Pomeroy (619),
son of Ebenezer and Rachel (Searle) Pomeroy.
503 Silas Pomeroy, no data collected; it is said he m; had one child
scalded to death.
176 MARY POMEROY. (Samuel, Caleb, FJt7t'ecd), b. July 1, 1716:
m. 1740. Xathanicl Searle. Jr., son of .\athaniel Searle and Priscilla
Webb, b. 1715, d. 1801 : she d. 1806.
^th gen. Children:
504 Abijah Searle. b. 1741: m. 1770, Elizabeth Clapj), dau. of Roger
Clapp and Anna Munn; he d. 1819. +
505 Levi Searle. b. 1743: ni. about 1771. Ruth : he d. in 1833.
506 Martha Searle. b. 1744: d. in childhood.
507 Mary Searle, b. 1746: m. in 1779, Asahel Strong, son of Aaron
and Rachel Strong of South Coventry ; she d. 1822. +
508 Nathaniel Searle. b. 1748: \\\. in 1775, Mrs. Experience (Warner)
Loomis ; they were generally known as "Cncle Nat" and **Aunt Spid." ;
he m. (2) in 1800, Mrs. Anna (Burt) Pomeroy, (widow of Timothy
Pomerov, who was son of Ebenezer Pomerov and Rachel Searl),
.she d. 1801, ae. 48: he m. (3) Experience Bartlett (1802), who d.
1836, ae. 85: he d. 1812, ae. 64. 4-
509 Martha Searle, b. 1750: m. John Williams.
510 Oliver Searle. b. 1752 : known as the bell-ringer ; d. 1808.
511 Zephaniah Searle, (twin with Oliver), b. 1752; he was famous
for his skill in trapping foxes ; d. 1830 ; unm.
512 LvDL\ Searle, b. 1754; m. in 1777, Ezekial Wood, Jr.; he was acci-
dentally killed by Capt. Samuel Coleman while hunting deer; she
m. (2) William Baldwin; she d. Aug. 3, 1816.
513 Mercy Searle, b. 1757; m. in 1800, Ichabod Howe, of West Spring-
field; she d. 1798; he m. (2) Lydia How, dau. of Ichabod How and
Mary Pomeroy.
6th gen. Children of Abijah and Elisabeth Searle, (504):
514 RuFUS Searle. m. Nancy Searle, dau. of Gideon Searle and Anna
Pomeroy.
515 LuciNDA Searle, m. Capt. William Dada, son of William Dada and
Jerusha Burt.
Children of Mary and Asahel Strong, (507):
516 Miranda Strong, b. March 31, 1779.
517 Aaron Strong, b. Nov. 8, 1781 ; m. Oct. IS, 1806, Lurana Searl, b.
Jan. 5. 1781 ; d. June 7, 1846; he d. May 7, 1837.
103 JToitrttf dtmrutUm - (Hakb
Children of Xat/ianicI and Experience Searle (ist tvife), (508):
518 Silas Warner Searle, b. 1776; m. Pamelia Bliss of Springfield,
Mass.
519 AcHSAH Searle, b. 1778; unm. ; d. May 23, 1863.
520 Thaddeus Searle, b. Oct., 1782; m. 1812, Lydia Howe of West
Springfield, Mass.
Child by 2d wife, (308) :
521 Nathaniel Burt Searle, b. Xov. 11, 1801 ; m. Oct. 10, 1826, Amelia
Pomeroy; he d. July 31, 1878, East Onondago, N. Y. +
177 JOSHUA POMEROY, (Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), h. Sept. 9, 1717.
Southampton; m. Lois Phelps, b. 1725, d. April 21, 1779, dau. of
William Phelps and Thankful Edwards; he d. .\pril 21, 1770.
Sth gen. Children:
522 Lois PoMERov. b. May 20, 1749. +
523 Isaac Pomerov, b. 1751.
524 Joshua Pomeroy, b. Aug. 2, 1752; said to have been a soldier of
the Revolution; m. Aug. 22. 1772, Elizabeth Dimond. who d. in
1776: he d. 1778.
525 Gideon Pomeroy, b. Jan. 26, 1755 : d. same year.
526 Lydia Pomeroy. b. Feb. 29, 1756. 4-
527 Miriam Pomeroy. b. March 25, 1759. 4-
528 Grace Pomeroy, bp. May 20, 1761. 4-
529 Gideon Pomeroy. bp. June 12, 1765. 4-
530 Justus Pomeroy. bp. Feb. 22, 1767. 4-
531 Princess Pomeroy, bp. Feb. 22, 1767; twin with Justus. 4-
178 NOAH POMEROY. (Samuel . Caleb, Elhceed). b. Oct. 13. 1719,
Southampton; m. (1) 1753, Lucy d. 1754; m. (2) 1756,
Temperance b. 1728. d. Sept. 2. 1787; he settled about 1774,
on the east side of Pomeroy Mountain; he d. Sept. 20, 1810, at
Southampton, Mass.
^th cren. Child:
532 Hannah Pomeroy. b. March 15. 1754.
Children by 2d icife:
533 Ichabod Pomeroy, b. March 9. 1757. 4-
534 Gad Pomeroy, b. April 22, 1759. 4-
535 Joel Pomeroy. b. .-Kpril 8. 1762. 4-
536 Daniel Pomeroy, b. April 8, 1762, (twin with Joel). 4-
537 Harmon Pomeroy, b. 1763.
538 Temperance Pomeroy. h. May 6. 1765; m. March 27, 1785, John
Hering of Northampton.
539 Ruby Pomeroy, b. 1775. 4-
180 ELIZABETH POMEROY, (Samuei Caleb. Eltii^eed), b. Feb. 25,
1723, Northampton; m. May 29, 1744, David Root, b. Feb. 15,
1711, in Westfield, Mass., son of John and Eleanor Root.
5th gen. Children:
540 Eleanor Root, b. July 25, 1747; d. July 26, 1748.
dtmnia^^ of ti^t Pomrrog JfamtlQ 184
541 Eleanor Root. b. Oct. 30, 1748.
542 Annie Root. b. Aug. 11, 1750.
543 John Root. b. July 10. 1754.
544 PuEBE Root, b. July 10. 1754 (twin with John).
181 SIMEON POMEROY. {Samuel, Caleb, Elticccd). \ June 13.
1725, Northampton; m. March 27. 1747. Abigail Smith*, b. Sept.
14, 1726, d. Dec. 10, 1820, dau. of Pelatiah Smith and Abigail Wait;
after residing in Southampton for a time with his father, they set-
tled in Amherst. Mass., about 1750; d. June 22, 1812.
^th iren. Children:
545 AniGAiL PoMEROY, b. Xov. 22, 1747. -f
546 Eunice Pomeroy. b. Xov. 24, 1740. +
547 Lucy Pomeroy. b. Jan. 22, 1752. +
548 SiMKON Pomeroy, b. April 24, 1754. +
54^> Mary Pomeroy, b. Sept. 10. 1756; d. young.
550 Jerlsha Pomeroy. b. Feb. 6, 1760. -r
551 David Pomeroy, b. March 12. 1762. +
552 Mary Pomeroy. b. Aug. 12. 1764; m. Jan. 16, 1794, Nathaniel Ed-
wards, b. April 25, 1756. d. July 22, 1780, son of Jonathan Edwards
of Amherst; she d. s. p., 1795.
553 Dorcas Pomeroy. b. Oct. 13, 1767. 4-
554 Sami'El Pomeroy, b. Nov. 19. 1760; d. Sept. 1, 1777.
555 Moses Pomeroy, b. April 10, 1773; d. Sept. 2, 1777.
203 HANNAH POMEROY, {Eldad. Caleb, Elttvccd). b. Feb. 4, 1700.
in Southampton, Mass.; m. Dec. 10, 1730, Amos Loomis, b. Aug.
12, 1707, in Windsor, Conn., d. 1779. son of Stephen Loomis and
Esther Colt. He went to Southampton in his youth and entered the
employ of Mr. Nathaniel Curtiss. and after marriage was perhaps
adopted by Mr. Curtiss, in 1857, as is suggested by the following
lines from his will, as quoted from "The Loomis h^amily in Amer-
ica:'* "To Amos Loomis. who served his time with me, I devise
the other half of my lot on Rainbow Hill, that was Judd's; or after
my wife's decease, the whole of it to be to him, his heirs, etc."
This will is dated Nov. 22, 1775. He was survived by his wife.
*Ju(ld's Hadley says: *'Lieut. Samuel Smith, with wife Elizabeth and
children, set sail for New England, April 30, 1634; he and his wife each then
called 32 years of age. He came from Weathersfleld, where he was a leading
man, to Hadley, Mass., where he held important offices in church and state.
He died about 1680; his widow died March 16, 1686. They had six children,
of whom Chileab, the fifth, was born about 1635, and died March 7, 1731:
he married Hannah, dau. of Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfleld ; she died Aug.
31, 1733, aged 88. They had fourteen children, of whom Samuel was the
second, born March 9, 1665; he was a shoemaker; died Aug. 4, 1724; he
married March 9, 1687, Sarah Bliss, who was alive in 1742. They had ten
children, of whom Pelatiah was the fourth, b. March 8, 1694; lived In Amherst,
and married, 1721, Abigail Wait, dau. of William Wait of Northampton. They
had four children, of whom Abigail was third."
185 Maartif (KntrratUm - (Eahh
5th gen. Children, all b. in Soutluimpton, Mass.:
556 Amos Loomis, b. Dec. 17. 1731; m. Experience Parsons; he d. Sept.
10, 1756. +
557 Nathaniel Loomis, b. May 28, 1734; m. April 10, 1762. Tabitha
Kingsley, b. Sept. 5, 1739, in Xorthampton, d. Sept. 16, 1815. dan.
of Ebenezer Kingsley and Mary Dudley; he d. in Southampton in
1795. He was present at the surrender, and massacre, of Fort
William Henry to the French and Indians, and with Joel Clapp,
made his escape after a desperate run of fourteen miles, naked.
He was also a soldier of the Revolution, joining Capt. Ebenezer
.Sheldon's 7th company, in 1782. +
558 CuRTiss L(X)Mis. b. Xov. 15. 1736; ni. Xov. 16, 1764, Experience
Warner; he d. 1773; she m. (2) Nathaniel Searle, Res. South-
ampton, Mass. +
559 Hannah Loomis, b. Jan. 15, 1738-9: m. Feb. 14, 1761, Noah Burt,
b. Aug. 30, 1734, drowned April 27, 1800, at Russell, Mass., son of
Thomas Burt and Mercy Phelps. +
560 AsHER Loomis. b. Sept. 12. 1741 ; m. May 17, 1778, Margaret Clark:
he d. 1779: his widow was appointed. Feb. 5, 1782, guardian of
Asher Loomis, Jr.; she m. (2) March 27, 1800, Joel Strong. Res.
Southampton. +
561 Esther Loomis. b. April 28, 1744: m. April 30, 1777, Moses Danks
of Southampton. +
562 Adisha Loomis, b. and d. 1747.
563 Shem Loomis, b. June 7, 1750: m. Dec. 7, 1776. Rhoda Winter, d.
July 22, 1820. ae. 65: he d. Sept. 27, 1821. in Southampton. +
6fh gen. Child of Amos and Experience Loomis. (^561:
564 Jerusiia Loomis, b. in Northampton. Mass.; m. May 27, 1784, in
Washington, Mass., Phineas Cowles.
Children of Xathaniel and Tabitha Loomis, (337):
565 RoxANNA Loomis. b. Aug. 17, 1763; m, Xov. 17, 1781, Jude Wright,
who d. Nov. 29, 1834: she d. Jan. 5, 1845.
566 Alexander Loomis. b. July 7. 1765: \n. Sept. 30, 17W. Miriam
[ones, who d. Nov. 19, 1843, ae. 67; he d. March 30, 1845.
567 .\mos Loomis. b. Sept. 23, 1767: m. Jan. 23, 1703, Martha Herrick,
who d. 1849, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Clark) Herrick; he.
d. 1820. Settled at Franklin, Portage countv, Ohio. +
568 Sybil Loomis. b. March 11, 1771 ; m. Sept. 29, 1793. Joshua Wright.
.S69 JoAB Loomis, b. Oct. 19, 1773; m. Feb. 3, 1803, Zilpah Hannum:
he d. 1828. at Hinklev, Medina countv, (3hio.
570 Nathamkl Loomis. b. Feb. 29, 1776: m. (int. inib. May 25, 18(X))
Patty Ludington; he d. March 26, 1854, at Otisco, N. Y.
571 AsE.VATH L00.MIS. b. 1780: m. Dec. 10, 1801, Elislia Hutchinson,
who d. Feb. 8, 1840, son of Dea. Elisha and Mercy Hutchinson ;
she d. Jan., 1869, at Russell, Mass.
Children of Curtiss and Experience Loomis, (558 1:
572 LoviSA Loomis, b. Nov. 15, 1766; m. Sept. 3, 1785, Gideon Searle,
Jr., who d. May 25, 1804, ae. 40.
(Senralosg of tlft Pomerog Wumii^ IBfi
573 Artf-ml's Loomis. b. Dec. 16, 1768; m. June 23, 1792, Asenath
Basconi. Southampton.
574 LixiNDA Loomis. b. April 13, 1771 : m. Jan. 22, 1791, Capt. Stephen
Bates. Southampton.
?7? Clrtis Loomis. b. May 13. 1772: m. Oct. 13, 1792. Jerusha Clark,
who d. Sept. 22, 1855, dau. of Oliver Clark; he d. Feb. 5. 1814;
she m. (2) Silas Sheldon, Southampton.
Children of Hannah and Noah Burt, (359 J:
576 Elvira Burt. 577 Hlldah Bl:rt.
576.1 Hannah Burt. 577.1 Lavinia Burt.
576.2 Esther Burt. 577.2 Royal Burt.
576.3 Noah Burt.
Child of Asher and Mar claret Loomis, (360):
578 Asher Loomis, b. Mav 21, 1779: ni. Abiq^ail : he d. 1858, at
Berlin, N. Y.
Children of Esther and Moses Danks, (361 1:
579 Moses Danks. 579.1 Esthi:r Danks,
Children of Shcni and Rhoda Loomis, (3^3^'
580 Silence Loomis. b. Feb, 12, 1778: m. Sept. 15, 1800, Alpheus
Strong:: she d. June 11, 1803.
581 Hannah Loomis, b. March 9, 1780: m. in 1807, James McElwain;
s. p.
582 Nancy Loomis. b. Sept. 13, 1782: d. July 31, 1869: unm.
583 Luther Loomis. b. March 13, 1785; m. Dec. 9, 1812, Desiah Frarv;
he d. Oct. 5, 1859.
584 Shem Loomis, b. June 19, 1788: m. Oct. 21, 1810, (intent) Hannah
Soice: he d. Nov. 8, 1871, at Mechlenburg, N. Y.
585 Rev. Aretus Loomis. b. Dec. 19. 1790; m. Oct. 11, 1819, Sarah
Goodman; he d. Auj^^. 13, 1857, at Bennington, \'t.
/th gen. Children of Amos and Martha Loomis, (36J):
586 Melissa Loomis. b. Dec. 5, 1794: m. Jan. 25, 1816, Reuel Shurtliff,
b. Feb. 4, 1794, d. Sept. 4, 1846, son of Noah and Lydia Shurtliff;
she d. March 29, 1873.
587 Almon Loomis, b. Feb. 24, 1796: d. 1828; unm.
588 Jasper Loomis, b. March 25, 1798; d. 1820: unm.
589 KiNGSLEY Loomis. b. Dec. 5. 1800 ; m. Sept. 28, 1820, Betsey .Andrews.
b. Sept. 20. 1802. d. Oct. 16, 1878, dau. of Dea. Samuel Andrews and
Tryphena Loomis: he d. Aug. 28, 1856, at Cleveland, Ohio. +
590 Amos Loomis, b. Sept. 8, 1803; m. Dec. 7, 1823, Wealthy Moore,
b. Mav 6, 1808, d. Sept. 9, 1889, dau. of Hiram Moore and Deborah
Phelps ; he d. May, 1850.
591 Marcus Loomis, b. Sept. 21, 1806; m. Jan. 15, 1829, Jerusha H.
Cutler.
592 William Herrick Loomis, b. May 11, 1809; m. Sept. 2, 1829,
Cvnthia Loomis.
8th gen. Children of Kingsley and Betsey Loomis, (389):
593 LoRiN Loomis, b. 1821 ; d. ae. four years.
1B7 9amtii dtmrntum - (Halth
594 LoDiCE LooMis, b. 1822-3; m. Alexander Blaine, d. 1863, son of
Thomas Blaine.
595 LoRRix KiNGSLEY LooMis, b. Jan. 10, 1825; m. Jan. 6, 1853, Eunice
Ann Mann.
596 Charles Wilson' Loomis, b. July 12, 1828; m. in 1852, Sarah
Oberholtzer, b. Jan. 10, 1833, d. Sept., 1^X)6, dau. of Jacob B.
Oberholtzer and Mary Renninger ; he d. Xov. 14, 1864. -^
597 Edward Andrews Loomis, b. May 2, 1831 ; m. Harriet Laraway.
598 Henry Loomis. b. Aug. 28. 1834-5; m. Emily Fitch.
599 Fannie Loomis, b. 1837; m. 1853, William Prescott.
600 William Harrison Loomis, b. July 24, 1840; m. Portia Naomi
Fifield.
601 Eliza Loomis. b. 1844: d. Oct., 1857, at La Porte, Ind.
Qth gcH, Children of Charles 11'. and Sarah Loomis, (596):
602 Pkof. Elisha Scott Loomis. B. S., A. M., Ph. D., LL. B., b. Sept.
18. 1852 ; m. June 17. 1880. Letitia E. Shire, b. April 17, 1856, dau.
of Henry Shire and Martha Ann Welch. He was compiler and
editor of "The Loomis Family in America;" edition of 1908.
Res.. Berea, Ohio. +
603 Charles Wilson Loomis, b. Dec. 31, 1853; d. Aug. 24, 1886.
604 Jacob Henry Loomis, b. Feb. 17, 1856; m. Minnie Orth.
605 William Franklin Loomis. b. Aug. 17, 1857: m. (1) Nancy C.
Wilson; (2) Oliva S. Greene.
606 Albert Adillo Loomis, b. April 9, 1859; m. (1) Amelia M. Nie-
meyer; (2j \ictoria I. Allen.
607 MiLO Sylvester Loomis, b. March 22, 1862; unm.
(j08 D. Allkn LixjMis. b. March 2*). 1864; m. Flora Snell.
loth i^cn. Children of Elisha S. and Letitia £. Loomis, (602):
609 El.vtis Garfield Loomis. b. Oct. 9, 1883; gr. West High School;
student at Case School of .\pplied Science. With Central Engineer-
ing Co., Cleveland, Ohio; m. June 20, 1911, Zoe E. Clark.
610 Clara Icona Loomis, b. Aug. 22, 18*.X); gr. Berea High School;
student one year at Lake Erie Seminary for Women, Painesville,
Ohio ; two years at Baldwin University, Berea, O. ; student in Kin-
dergarten Training School, Cleveland, O.
204 ELDAD POMEROY, {Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Dec. 31, 1711;
m. (1) about 1750. Bathsheba ; m. (2) May 14, 1786,
Priscilla Searle. dau. of Nathaniel and Priscilla Searle.
3//1 j^r/L Children:
611 Sarah Pomerov, b. 1751; m. May 27, 1769, John Clapp of East-
hampton.
612 Martha Pomeroy, b. 1753.
613 Eldad Pomeroy, b. 1756.
614 Bathsheba Pomeroy, b. 1757.
(No Pomeroy projection discovered to this family.)
(Senralosg of tt^e Pomrrog i^amiiQ IBB
205 El]li:XI':ZI-:R IH)MER()V. yliidad. Caleb. Eltwccd), b. Nov. 10.
1715: in. Jan. J, 1740. Kaclicl Searlo. dau. of Xatlianicl ami Priscilla
Scark'; lie d. ( )ct. 13. 17^)(». Southampton. Mass.
^tli 'Cn. Children:
013 h2i;i:\i:zi:R rn.\ii:Rt)V, h. Jan. 17, 1741. "^
010 Ei.inr PoMKRov. I). 1^42: m. April 25. 17^X). Rachel Strong, b.
1751. (1. 1830: he cl. 1824.
017 RAcrirj, Pomkrov, b. Amlt. 12. 1744: m. Au£i^. 0, 1768, |ohn Hannnm:
she d. \ov. 14. 178').
018 Kksiati i^oMKRov. 1). 174^): d. vonnu.
619 CiFN. Timothy Pomkrov. b. Ian. 13. 1750. +
020 Krsiaii Pomkrov. b. 1753.
021 TiTts PoMKRov. b. ( >ci. 10. 1757. -^
022 Dorcas Pumkrov. b. 17(>0: in. (1) in 177^\ .Ainaziah Harrow: ni.
( 2 » Elijah Xorton.
206 ELISHA PoMI-IRoN'. {FJdad. Caleb, nitwccd). b. 171<>: m. {\)
Dec. 22. 1743. Mercy Soarlo. dan. oi Nathaniel ami Priscilla Searle,
b. 1721, (1. 170*^: m. (2i in 1780, E.\i)erience Cartlett (widow), b.
1720. d. .May 21. 1803: he d. Sept. •'. 18U0.
^/// [Scn. Children:
623 MiiRiv PoMKRov. b. 1745: tl. 1740.
624 Ei.isiiA I\)ml:rov. b. ( )ci. P>. 1747: d. 17(V».
025 Mr.Riv P(»MRRi.v. b. ( )ci. 30. 174'*. -
620 J \cou PoMRROv, 1). Dec. 13. 1751. -r-
027 Isaac Pomrrov. b. Aup;. 14. 1753. -^
028 JRMi.MA Pomrrov. b. .March 21. 1755: d. Dec. 5, 1788.
ri2*' IJA.WAn PcniRRciv. b. Ian. 3. 1757: d. leb. 2, 177^ i.
030 HiRHAii PoMRRDv. I), ji.ne \(k ]7h'\ -
031 .\sAiiEL PoMRR(»v. b. Dec. 13. 17rd. 4-
032 Prisctij.a Pomrkov. b. June 15. 1704: ni. March 0. 1782. Seth
Hnlbnrt. bp. Inly 24, 17(i3. d. I'eb. 24. 1783. sjhi of James llnlbnrt
anrl Eleanor Ponieroy ( Laleb i : >he d. s. |).
207 JOSEPH PO.MEROY. (/:7r/(?(/. Caleb. FJtwced). b. Nov. 1^ 1721:
m. abont 1741. Abi<rail Searle. dan. of Nathaniel and Priscilla Searle.
-'/// jen. Children:
033 Aiiir.AiL Pomrrov. b, 1742. Sonthanipton : m. in 1775, .M)ner Smith
of Murrayfield, Mass.
034 Josi:iMi Pomrrov, b. 1744. ^^-
035 Licv Pomrrov. b. 1745: d. yotnv^.
030 Li;cv Pomrrov. b. 174''. -
637 /\.MASA Pomrrov, b. 17.n». -t-
638 I Irzrkiaii Pomikciv.
03*) NiRCR Pomrrov.
208 DENJAMIN POMEROV. i FJdad, Caleb. FJticccd). b. 1724: m.
Anne : settled in Georijetown, Me.
189 9antti^ (6tmrutian - Joat^ua
5//j jcii. Children:
640 Richard Pomerov. b. Aug. 5, 1730.
(A\ Deli\ i:raxci£ Po.NfKuov. 1). Maroli 11. 17.^ ,\
642 Anna Pomerov. 1). Mav 14, 1755.
643 Margaret Pomerov. b. Mav 22, 1758.
ABIGAIL POMEROV. {EUiad. Caleb. /:V/.\(V//k b. 1727: m. 1748,
Eliphaz Searlc. b. 1722, son of Xaibauicl .Scarle and Priscilla Webb;
slie d. 1815.
^th ecu. Children:
644 Jerusha Se.vrle, b. 1740.
645 JfSTi's Searle, b. 1752: ni. in 1776. I.\dia Parks.
646 Tamar Searle. m. Roxanna I'.atcs. dan. of l,cnuicl Bales ami Lucv
Wait.
647 EuruAZ SEARr.E, Jr.. ni. f-ovina Mooro.
648 Exocii SEARf.E. ni. Sally Welch.
(>4'> PniLii» Skarle. m. Lvdia Curtis.
f)50 Martin Searle,
215 MARY POMEROV. {Joslwa. Joshua, lilli.ccd). b. Sept. 11. 1710,
at Dorchester, Conn.: ni. Xov. 10. 1733, ai Sunij^hton. Samuel Clap.
Residence. Norton, Mass.
^th lien. Children h. at Xorton. Mass.:
651 Sarah Clap. b. Au.c^. 31, 1736: d. Dec. 18, 1736.
652 Mercv Clai». b. May 27, 1738.
653 Elizabeth Clai\ b. July 1. 1741: ni. Xov. 20. 1759, David Cope-
land of Milton.
654 Hannah Clap. b. Aup^. 22. 1743: d. Sej»i. 28. 175^).
655 Samuel Ci-ap. Jr.. b. Aucr. 16. 1745: ni. (iuL) Aucr. 13, 1768.
L\dia Wild. b. April 24, 1751. dan. of Samuel and Lydia Wild. 4-
r»56 XoAii Clap. b. April 5. 1748: \u. April 10. 1776, at Xortr)n, Olive
Shepard. b. April 24, 1754, d. Feb. 13, 1845, dau. of Thomas and
Constant Shepard: he d. Xov. 10, 1820. +
6th <^en. Children of Saninel and Lydia C7(7/>, (6^^):
657 Sami'ei- Clap. b. May 17. 17<»''. ( bp. June 3. 1770): d. July 28,
1773, at Xorton.
658 Oliver Clap. b. March 22. 1771.
659 IcHABOD Clap. b. Aug. 27, 1773 : \\\. March 13. 1803. Betsey Smith of
Middleborouj::h.
Children of Soah and Olive Claf". (o^^of:
660 Polly Clap. b. Mav 14, 1777.
661 Salmo.v Clap. b. Jan. 17, 1780,
662 Eli.vs Clap, b. Jan. 19, 1782.
663 Constant Clap, b. Xov. 11, 1784.
664 Appolas Clap. b. Feb. 27. 1787.
665 Sally Clap, b. Au.s:. 17, 1789.
666 Relel Clap, b. April 4, 1792,
(Sntralosg of tl^r Pamrrag i^aitiiig 190
667 Nancy Clai-, b. Feb. 9, 1796.
(Xo further Pomcroy projection to the family of Joshua.)
(B. ,5/". P. io6. Boston R, of Deeds.)
To all People to whom these Presents shall come, &c. Samuel Clap of
Norton in the County of Bristol within His Majesties Province of the Massa-
chusetts Bay in New England Junr yeoman and Mary his wife send greetings:
Know ye that they the sd Samuel Clap and Mary his wife (who is grandaughter
of Joseph Weeks heretofore of Dorchester aforesaid Deceased and Daughter
of Repent Pomroy Deceased, late wife of Joshua Pomroy of Norton aforesd
Yeoman ) for and in consideration of the sum of Ten pounds in good Bills of
Credit on the Province aforesaid to them in hand paid before the ensealing
of these Presents and the Etelivery thereof by Preserved Capen of Dorchester
in the County of SufiPolk in the sd. Province Gent. — several pieces or parcells
all of them situate in the said Township of Dorchester and now in the Town-
ship of Stoughton — laid out by the Proprietors of Dorchester and Stoughton
to sd. Joseph Weeks dec*d, the Twenty Five Divisions of Land so called and
the sd. Joshua Pomroy (late husband of the said Repent Pumroy mother of
the sd Mary Clap who died seized of the premises) doth give up all his right
title &c to Preserved Capen. In witness whereof the sd Samuel Clap, Mary
Clap and Joshua Pomroy have set hands & seals.
Samuel Clap and a seal
Mary M Clap her mark
Joshua Pumroy and a seal
Feb. 8, 1736
Bristol Ss Norton. March 29, 1737.
Samuel and Mary Clap and Joshua Pumroy prrsonally appeared &c. before
Ephraim Leonard Just. Peace Dec. 13, 1738. Received and accordingly entred
and examined.
246 DEACON JOSEPH POMEROY. (Joseph, Joseph, Elnveed), b.
Jan. 30, 1729, Boston; m. Dec. 27. 175^, Muldah Dunbar, widow of
Jonathan Stiibbs, b. Jan. 2, 1732, Hingham. Mass., d. Xov. 2i, 1802;
he d. Dec. 25, 1802.
5th gen. Children:
684 HuLD.\H PoMEROY, b, Oct. 19, 1760: d. Dec. 10, 1787.
685 JoNWTii.AN PoMERov. b. April 24, 1762; d. Dec. 28, 1762.
686 JosEi'H PoMEROY. b. March 28, 1764; d. Dec. 28. 1764.
687 John Pomeroy, b. Dec. 18. 1766; m. Annie Lane.
688 S-\RAH Pomeroy, b. June 3. 1768: m. Richard Parker.
689 Polly (Molly) Pomeroy. b. Feb. 9, 1770.
690 Richard Pomeroy, b. Oct. 9, 1771. +
691 Hannah Pomeroy, b. Oct. 18. 1773: m. Phineas Parker.
692 Abigail Pomeroy, b. (twin with Hannah) Oct. 18, 1773; m. Mr.
Soule.
(B. 134. P. 95.)
Peter Dunbar Housewrlght, Joseph Pummery Yeoman, and Huldah my
wife» Jonathan Locke yeoman and Sarah my wife, & Leah Dunbar Spinster,
all of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland. Solomon Lorlng yeoman and
Hannah ray wife, Thomas Perry Husbandman & Mary my wife all in Hingham
in Co. of Suffolk. Hosea Orcutt & Abigail my wife of Cohasset Fishermen,
sell to Loban Stodder Land in the Second Parish in Hingham. In witness
whereof me the said Peter, Joseph Huldah Jonathan Sarah Leah Solomon
191
J^oitrtlf (Senrnttion - JoBrttl;
Hannah Theophilus Patience Thomas Mary Hoeea Abigail have set hand and
seal this fourth day of May A. D. 1774.
Patience (her mark) Gushing and a seaL
Hannah TiOrlng and a seal
Peter Dunbar and a seal
Huldah Pumroy's Mark and a seal
Leah Dunbar & a seal
Recorded March 24, 1782.
Theopilus Gushing and a seal
Solomon Loring and a seal.
Rosea Orcutt and a seal.
Joseph Pumroy &. a seal
Sarah Lock and a seal
Jonathan Lock.
271 NOAH POMEROY, {\oah, Josctli, Elt^i^ccd), b. Oct. 8, 1723:
Colchester, Conn. : m. April 24, 1848. Liirana Xortham, b. May 25,
1723. d. Feb. 24. 1806, dau. of John Xorthani and Hannah Pomeroy
(Joseph) ; he d. Sept. 17, 1798. Res,. Colchester, Conn.
5/A ^cn. Children:
693 Charles Pomerov. b. April 22, 174''. -r
694 Samuel Pomerov. h. I-'eb. 4, 1751.
695 LuRA.VA Pc^meroy. b. May 22, 1752: m. ( >ct. 15. 1707. Martin Welles.
6% Rev. Xoaii Pomi.kov. b. Aiiir. 18. 1754. -r
697 Louisa Pomeroy, b. Sept. 3, 1761. 4-
272 DANIEL POMEROY. (Xoah, Josc/^li. Eltivccd), b. Oct. 13, 1727;
ni. Oct. 19, 1749. Xaomi Kibbe, b. 1726, d. Sept. 14, 1793. dan. of
Edward and Dorothy (Phelps) Kibbe, widow of Joseph Phelps of
W'estfield. by her first m. she had Xaomi Hatch Phelps, b. 1743, d.
March 5, 1833; and Elijah Phelps, b. 1746, d. 1823; Daniel d. Jan.
23, 1785. Res., Coventry, Conn.
^th ^en. Children:
698 Daniel Pomeroy. b. Aug. 3, 1750. 4-
699 Hon. Eleazar Pomeroy. b. Oct. 24. 1752. 4-
700 Elizabeth Polan Pomeroy, b. May 10, 1755. +
273 ELIZABETH POMEROY. (Xoah, Joseph, Elhceed), b. 1729, Col-
chester. Conn.: m. Jan. 27, 1750. Joshua Smith of C«»lcheslcr, b.
Jan. 31, 1729.
^th '^en. Children:
701 Child, b. Au.c:. 29, 1750: d. soon.
702 Elizabeth .^mitii. h. April 12. 17.^2.
703 John Smith, b. March 12. 1754.
704 Mary Smith, b. March 6, 1756.
705 Temperance Smith, b. March 21. 1758.
274 JOHX POMEROY. (Noah, Joseph, Elh.'eed), b. Aug. 12, 1733,
Somers, Conn. ; m. Jan. 1, 1762, Esther Kibbee of Somers, b. 1731. d.
Sept. 27. 1808: he d. Sept. 21, 1810. Res., in Somers, Conn.
5th gen. Children:
706 Esther Pomeroy, b. March 21, 1763. 4-
707 John Pomeroy, b. May 1, 1764. +
708 An Pomeroy, b. Oct. 3, 1765; m. Aug. 28, 1794, Joseph Billings.
709 Tryphena Pomeroy, (twin with Abi) b. Oct. 3, 1765; m. Isaac Davis.
710 JuDE Pomeroy. b. Aug. 20, 1769. 4-
(genraUisg of tt)r PotttFrag i^atnUti 192
711 AzLBAii FoMKRov. ( twiii witli JiKJe) b. Aug. 20. 176'>. +
712 Flli.iaii P()Mi:K(>v. i). Sept. 17. 1771 : unm.
713 IIlKAM POMKROY. 1). Xov. 1. 1773. +
714 Ammittai Pomkkov. b. Sept. 17, 1776. +
276 DEACOX y )SHl'A POMERc )V, iXoah. Joscl>li, lllt7,-ccd), b. Feb.
27, 1737. Soiiicrs. Conn.: ni. .Vov. \r. 175''. Marv Davis ut .^^tatfnnl.
Conn., b. April 30. 1736, d. March 30. 1S03; he d. Marcli 30. 1813.
5//f 'jcn. Children:
713 Marv 1N)MER0v, b. Nov. 15, 1760. +
716 Elizauktii Pomkrov, b. Sept. VK 1763. -^
717 LiciNHA PoMKRov. b. Julv 24. 1765: d. Mav 23. I7()6.
718 Cait. Samikl Po.MKKtiv. I). Fel). 2. 1767. -
719 ErxicE PoMEKOY. b. Dec. 11. 1769. +
720 Joshua Pomerov, b. .\pril 15. 1774. -^
"U'c will not hide them from their children,
shoxving to the generation to come the praises
of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonder-
ful li'orks that he hath done." — Psalms.
321 CAPT. ELISHA POMEROY. {Jolin. Ebcnczcr, Mcdad, Elt-
weed), b. Jan. 29, 1721, Xorthanipton, Mass.; military service in
the French and Indian wars; ni. about 1743, Esther Wright; he d.
June 26, 1762. Res., Northampton.
6th gen. Children:
721 Elihu Pomeroy, b. Aug. 12, 1744.
722 Esther Pomeroy. b. Dec. 4, 1745. +
72i Elish.x Pomeroy, b. Oct. 19, 1748: d. 1748.
724 SusA.NNA Pomeroy, b. 1756; d. 1777.
725 Rachel Po.meroy, b. aht. 1758. +
726 Nancy Pomeroy, b. 1761. ■+•
322 RACHEL POMEROY, (John, Ebenezer, Afedad, Eltweed), b.
April 14, 1723, Northampton, Mass.; m. in 1741, Lieut. Isaac
Newell of Farmington, Conn., b. Aug. 11, 1711, d. June 3, 1793,
son of Samuel Newell and wife Sarah Norton; she d. Sept. 16,
1776; he m. (2) Rhoda Andrews (widow of Elisha Warren) ; s. p.
by her.
6th Ji^c//. Children, all by ist icife:
727 Mercy Newell. 1>. April 2, 1742; m. (1) Stephen Root; m. (2)
May 16, 1769, Col. John Strong; she d. Sept. 9, 1784. +
728 Deacon Pomeroy Newell, b. April 2, 1745; m. Nov. 28, 1770,
Elizabeth Carter; he d. Oct. 21, 183L +
193 9\ttii demrutian - 0hhah
729 Capt. Simeon Newell, b. Feb. S, 1748; m. Sept. 15, 1772, Mercy
Hooker. +
730 Sarah Newell, b. 1751 ; m. in 1779, Lemuel Andrews. +
731 Isaac Newell, b. Jan. 31, 1753; ni. Mary Warren. +
732 Rachel Pomeroy Newell, b. 1757; ni. Roswell Cook of Farni-
ington. Conn., b. May, 1756.
733 Ashbell Newell, b. July 7, 1759; ni. Jan. 10, 1793, Sarah War-
ren; he d. Feb. 10, 1836. +
734 QuARTus Pomeroy Newell, b. July 7, 1761 ; d. Sept. 24, 1761.
735 Rev. Gad Newell, b. Sept. 10, 1763; gr. Yale, 1786; m. June 10,
1795, Sophia Clapp; he d. Feb. 26, 1859. +
yth gen. Children of Mercy and John Strong, (y^y):
736 Eleanor Strong, b. April IS, 1770; ni. Jan., 1788, Joel Root, b.
Aug. 30, 1770, d. Jan. 12, 1847, son of Col. Elisha Root and wife
Lucy Curtis, merchant in New Haven, Conn., after 1800; she d.
July 5, 1853. +
737 Stephen Strong, b. Nov. 6, 1772, Torrington, Conn., ni. Hepzi-
bah Bunce of Hartford, Conn. ; he d. April 2, 1828.
738 Elijah Strong, b. Feb. 17, 1774, Torrington; m. ; farmer at Aus-
tinburg, Ohio; d. March 22, 1828.
739 Pomeroy Strong, b. April 9, 1777, Farmington, Conn. ; ni. Susan
North, b. June 6, 1775, d. May 23, 1863, dau. of John North; he
d. Sept. 13, 1861.
740 Edmund Strong, b. April 28, 1781, Farmington; m. Dec. 16, 1803,
Anna Gillett, b. June 21. 1784, d. Aug. 18, 1868, dau. of Dea.'
Nathan and Lucy (Harrison) Gillett of Morgan, Ohio; he d.
Aug. 25, 1844.
741 Mercy Pomeroy Strong, b. April 15, 1784, Farmington; m. 1807,
Roswell Austin of Austinburg, Ohio, b. July 10. 1781, New Hart-
ford, Conn., d. Jan., 1868, son of Judge Austin, founder of the
town of Austinburg: she d. 1823.
Children of Pomeroy and Elizabeth NeivelL (728):
742 RoxANNA Newell, b. Tan. 12. 1773, Southington; m. Nov. 4,
1795, Eli Barnes, son of Asa and Phebe (Adkins) Barnes, b.
May 21, 1775, d. July 27, 1827; she d. April 11, 1812; he m. (2)
Susan Morris, wid. of Willet Bradley.
743 LuciNA Newell, b. Nov. 17, 1779; m. (1) April 25, 1804, Cor-
nelius Dunham, Jr., b. Ian. 29, 1777, d. Jan. 6, 1823; she m. (2)
Nov. 6, 1825, Robert Foote, Ir. ; she d. Nov. 23, 1852.
744 Electa Newell, b. Feb. 2, 1783; m. Dec. 21, 1801, Royce Lewis
of Walcott, Conn.; she d. 1808; he d. 1848.
745 Rachel Newell, b. May 12, 1790, Southington, Ct.; m. Nov.
22, 1812, John Albert Hart, son of Levi and Philanthea (Allen)
Hart, b. May 31. 1789, d. Oct. 20, 1823; she d. Jan. 26, 1824.
746 Lucy Newell, b. Jan. 11, 1793, Southington; m. Romeo Warren;
resided in Chenango, N. Y.
Children of Simeon and Mercy Nezvell, (729):
7A7 William Pomeroy Newell, b. June 14, 1779; m. Miss Hooker;
settled at Sodus Bay, N. Y.; d. there.
(Snualosg of tl|r Pomrrog i^amUg 194
748 Henry Hooker Xewell, b. April 27, 1781; m. Laura Cook, d. at
St. Johns, Mo., Sept. 20, 1S38; slie was a descendant of Capt.
Joseph W'adsworth, who, according to tradition, concealed the
koval Charter of Connecticut from Gov. Andros in an oak tree,
which tree was afterwards known as the Charter Oak; he d. May
9, 1819, Augusta, Ga.
749 Roger Sherman Xewell, b. March 28. 1791; ni. (1) Aug. 1,
1821, Naomi Hawley. dau. of Asa and Diodamia (Root) Ilawlev,
b. July 29, 1804, d. Feb. 20, 1839; m. (2) May 28, 1840, Mary
Seymour of Hartford. Ct., d. Aug. 28. 1860; settled at Scott's
Swamp, Farmington, Ct. ; he d. Dec. 1, 1863.
Children of Sarah and Lemuel Andrezi'S, f/jo):
750 Sylvester Andrews, b. May 6. 17S0: m. Xov. 24. 1803. Elizabeth
Parker Clark of Clark Farms, Ct. : in 1807 they moved to W'ynd-
ham, N. Y., thence to Poughkeepsie. where he d. Dec. 13, 1857;
he was a noted school-teacher: she d. from cholera July 24, 1S49.
751 Sarah Andrews, b. 1783; d. ( )ct. 15, 1805. A tombstone was
erected to her memory by Jonathan Peck, of Kensington, Ct., to
whom she was betrothed.
752 Aruma Andrews, b. 1787; m. Dec. 16. 1816, Lucy Walker, dau.
of Gideon; he d. Oct. 7. 1826; she m. (2) Ebenezer Fisk, son of
Capt. Solomon Fisk; she d. April 27. 1875, Avon, X. Y.
753 Lemuel Andrews, b. Xov. 15. 1?)0: in. (1) Laura Curtis, dau.
of Leverett and Ruth (Barnes) Curtis, d. Dec. 22, 1822. ae. 22;
he m. (2) Emma Lewis, dau. of Elisha and Lois (Lee) Lewis, d.
Nov. 6, 1826, ae. 25; he m. (3) Marv Ann Lewis, (sister of his
second wife) Jan. 23, 1843; he d, May'l. 1844. One child by each
wife.
Children of Isaac and Mary AV:cW/, f/SU:
754 QuARTus Pomeroy Xewell, b. Jan. 1. 1781 ; m. Feb. 28, 1805,
Lucy Foote, dau. of Capt. Robert and Rachel (Lewis) Foote, b.
Jan. 6, 1783, d. March 20, 1853: he d. May 24, 1873, Xew Brit-
ain, Ct.
755 Catherine Newell, b. Aug. 18. 1782: m. Xov. 18, 1804, Marcus
Curtiss, b. Sept. 19, 1780. d. Dec. 1, 1868; she d. Sept. 10. 1870.
756 Elisha Newell, b. April 1, 1784; m. Xov. 11, 1815. Lucv Caul-
kins, b. March 3, 1789, W'aterbury, Ct., d. Sept. 20, 1830; they
moved to Galena, Ohio, 1808; he d. June 9, 1872.
757 Polly Newell, b. Xov. 21, 1788; m. Xov. 9, 1809. Levi Hart,
son of Levi and Philanthea (Allen) Hart, b. Oct. IS, 1786, d.
Dec. 3, 1828; she d. Oct. 14, 1868.
758 Orra Newell, b. Oct. 29, 1790; m. Oct. 6, 1813, Lewis Foote.
son of Robert and Rachel (Lewis) Foote, b. Sept. 16, 1789.
759 Isaac Newell, b. July 4, 1797; m. 1826, Parmela Duncan, dau.
of Matthew Duncan of Putnam Co., Ga. ; merchant in Milledge-
ville, Ga., when it was a frontier town ; she d. Sept. 23, 1867 ; he
d. Oct. 11, 1866. +
760 Mercy Newell, b. Aug. 20, 1799; m. Jan. 22, 1823, James Loyal
Barrett, son of Urbane Barrett. They lived just south of Newell
Comers, Conn.
195 JTiftlf (&emrut\an - Mthah
761 Bryan Newell, bp. June 2, 1812; ni. Aug. 22, 1831, Azubah
Loveland, dau. of Elijah and Azubah (Scoville) Loveland of
Kensington, Conn., b. Dec. 22, 1805, d. Jan. 31, 1834; he m. (2
her sister) Adaline Loveland, b. April 20, 1810; lived in South-
ington, at Newell's Corners, Conn.
Children of Ashbcll and Sarah Nezvcli (733):
762 Anna Newell, b. Nov. 18, 1793; m. Jan. 26, 1814, Selah North
of Middletown, Conn., who d. Aug. 13, 1850; she d. July 28, 1830.
763 Sarah Newell, b. Feb. 14, 1797; m. Jan. 1, 1832, Joseph Daven-
port of West Hartford, Conn., b. Sept. 25, 1806.
764 Julia Newell, b. July 6, 1800; m. June 26, 1823, Roswell Brad-
ley, son of Ichabod Bradley and wife Abigail Moore, b. fuly 2,
1794, d. April 10, 1851; she d. Aug. 15. 1855.
765 Rhoda Andrus Newell, b. Feb. 14, 1806; m. March 12, 1839,
Hiram London, who d. Sept. 6, 1865; she d. Oct. 14, 1844.
Children of Gad and Sophia Newell, (735):
7(ici Oliver Pomerov Newell, M. D., b. Dec. 7, 1796; m. Feb. 16,
1832, Betsey Greenwood; d. Jan. 28, 1877.
767 Ursula Sophlv Newell, b. Sept. 27, 1806; m. the Rev. John S.
Emerson, b. Dec. 28, 1800. They went to the Hawaiian Islands
as missionaries, returning to this country but once, in 1860. She
was bp. as Ursula, but at the time of her marriage "Sophia"
was added at the request of her parents. Of their eight children,
one is a Congregational minister, two are physicians, and one is
a civil engineer. +
&th gen. Of the Children of Eleanor and Joel Root, (736):
768 Olivia Ann Root, b. Oct. 10, 1788; m. in 1805, Samuel Badger,
b. Dec. 6, 1786, Windham, Conn., d. March 14, 1866, son of Ed-
ward Badger and wife Lucretia Abbe; gr. Yale; lawyer of Phila-
delphia, Pa.: she d. Jan. 22, 1827. +
Children of Isaac and Pamela Neivell, (759):
769 Mary Warren Newell, b. 1827: m. (1) Samuel R. Hodges of
Columbus, Ohio; he d. 1863; m. (2) 1871. Dr. E. P. Hartwell, a
planter at New Albany, Ga.
770 Isaac Newell, Jr., b. 1830; m. 1867, Mrs. Kate Calloway; d.
1868.
771 Walter Dl'Ncan Newell, b. 1836; a lawyer; d. 1859.
772 Joseph B. Newell, Lieut.-Col. of the 2d Georgia infantry; served
with Gen. Longstreet in the Confederate army; d. ae. 34.
773 Tomlinson Fort Newell, b. Jan. 31, 1838; m. Dec. 15, 1869,
Amsben Colquitte, dau. of Gen. Alford Colquitte; he was in
Stonewall Jackson's corps, of Lee's army; was wounded several
times; lost a leg at Gettysburg; lawyer at Milledgville and planter.
Children of Ursula S, and John S. Emerson, (767):
77A Samuel Newell Emerson, b. Oct 10, 1832, Honolulu, Hawaii;
d. Aug. 12, 1910, s. p.
775 William S. Emerson, b. Oct. 22, 1834, Honolulu, Hawaii; d.
April 24, 1852, s. p.
(Kntralosg of ti^e Pamrrag IFamiig 19B
776 John Lowell Smith Emerson, i). Jan. 4, LS.v ; d. July 17. 1840.
777 Nathaniel B. Emerson, b. July 1, 1839: pliysiciau in Honolulu.
Hawaii.
778 Jl-stin Edwards Emhrsun. M.l)., b. An^q:. 11, 1841: A.l>. Wil-
liams Col., 1805; m. Dec. 2(>, 1877, W'illinicna Hannah Eliot, b.
Jan. 30. 1832: A.B. X'assar: A.M. 1879: M.A. New York. 1877:
dau. of William Horace Eliot of New Haven. Conn. (gr. Vale
Col.). Res., Detroit, Mich. +
779 Joseph S. Emerson, b. July 13. 1843: gr. Boston (Mass.) Insti-
tute of Technology; m. Feb. 17, 1900. Dorothy Lainl).
780 Rev. Oliver Pomerov Emf.rson. b. Dec. 27, 184.^; m. Feb. 13,
1896, Eugenie Homer. Res., East Providence. R. I.
781 Sophia Elizadetii Emerson, b. Jan. 24, 1849: m. lulv 19. 1SS2.
Samuel Mann; d. June 18. 1883.
Qth gen. Of the Children of Olivia .1. and Samuel Badtjcr fj'dS):
7S2 Samuel Badger, b. Aug. 16. 1824: ni. Dec. P, 1843, Cornelia I-'..
Holmes, b. April 30, 1829, d. May 9. 1891 ; he d. May 21. 1863 +
Children of Dr. Justin E. and ll'illiniena II. Emerson, (jjS):
783 Paul Eliot Emerson, b. July 14, 1880. Kalamazoo. Mich.; gr.
Williams Col,, 1902, A.B. : in. Grace Elizabeth \'arv, Newark.
N, Y.
784 FiLip Law Emerson, b. Nov. 7, 1882, Detroit, Mich.; gr. Cornell
University, 1902, M.E.
785 Ralf de Pomeroy Emerson, b. fune 8, 1885, Detroit; gr. Williams
Col., 1907, A.B.
loth gen. Of the Children of Samuel and Cornelia E. Badger,
(782):
786 Mary Olivia Badger, b. Dec. 5, 1846: m. Nov. 15, 1870. Wilbur
Fisk Paddock, b. Nov. 27, 1831, d. Tune 11, 1903; she d. Jan.
3, 1902. +
nth gen. Of the Children of Mary O. and Wilbur F. Paddock.
(7S6):
787 Rev. Ernest Moorhead Paddock, b. Tan. 19, 1872; m. April 26,
1900, Margaret Warner, b. Oct. 4, 1880, d. Jime 5, 1911. +
I2th gen. Children of Ernest M. and Margaret Paddock, (787):
788 Alexander Mackay Smith Paddock, b. July 3, 1901.
789 Dorothea Paddock, b. Feb. 8, 1907.
325 JOHN POMEROY, {John, Ebenecer. Medad, Eltwecd), b. about
1728; m. July 11, 1753, Hannah Merrick, dau. of Thomas Merrick
(of Springfield) and Abigail Brewer, b. May 11, 1731; he d.
March 3, 1760; she m. (2) Dea. Jonatlian Hunt; she d. 1801.
6th gen. Children:
790 Simeon Pomeroy, b. April 21, 1754. +
791 Cynthia Pomeroy, b. Dec. 7, 1755. 4-
792 Luther Pomeroy, b. Nov. 8, 1757. +
793 John Pomeroy, b. Dec. 9, 1759; soldier of the Revolution; cap-
tured by the British and consigned to one of the prison ships in
197 l^iftii ^enemtxan - Mehab
Boston harbor; when he was released by exchange, he was given
a poisoned biscuit, and died March 11, 1777.
326 CAPT. OLIVER POMEROY, (John, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. 1729; m. Nov. 22, 1750, Mary Lyman, dau. of Ben-
jamin Lyman and Mary Moseley, b. Feb. 22, 1730; settled at
Rocky Hill, Wetherford; he d. Sept. 30, 1776. Soldier of the
Revolution.
6th gen. Children:
794 Dan Pomeroy, b. Sept. 15, 1751; d. Sept. 30, 1751.
795 Rachel Pomeroy, b. Sept. 15, 1754. +
796 Mary Pomeroy, b. 1757; d. Aug. 24, 1762.
Oliver Pomeroy, b. and d. 1761.
329 TITUS POMEROY, (John, Ebenczer, Medad, Hltwced), bp. Oct.
19, 1736, Northampton; m. Mary b. 1739, d. Jan. 16, 1801,
South Hadley; settled in South Hadley, where he kept a public
house; his name appears in a list of soldiers 1759, for service in
the French and Indian wars; he d. in South Hadley Feb. 3, 1758;
letters of administration were granted his widow in 1778.
6th gen. Children:
797 Simeon P^omeroy, b. about 1760. +
798 Rachel Pomeroy.
799 Rox.xLAN'A Pomeroy, 1>. 1766. +
800 Hannah Pomeroy. +
801 Mary Pomeroy.
330 EBEXEZER POMEROY, (Ebcnczcr, Ehcneser, Medad, Eltweed),
b. May 1, 1723; m. Mindwell l.yman, 1>. July 29, 1721, d. Oct.
9, 1797, dau. of Cap!. John Lyman and .\bigail Moseley of West-
field ; he d. 1800.
6th gen. Children:
802 Ethan Pomeroy, b. ai)out 1744. H-
.S03 Abigail Pomeroy, b.
804 Hannah Pomeroy, b. ; m. 1786, John Colton.
805 Eunice Pomeroy; m. Jan. 6, 1774, Ebenezer Clark of West Hamp-
ton, Mass.
806 Rhoda Po-meroy; m. 1793, David Warren.
807 Elizabeth Pomeroy, bp. Dec. 23, 1753. +
808 Mindwell Pomeroy, bp. April 11, 1756. +
809 Ebenezer Pomeroy, bp. Nov. 19, 1758; m. Feb. 5, 1795, Sarah
Wolcott, b. Jan. 15, 1764, dau. of Epaphras Wolcott and Mabel
Bumham.
810 Solomon Pomeroy, bp. Feb. 9, 1761.
333 STEPHEN POMEROY. (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
b. July 13, 1732; m. Dec. 19, 1759, Eleanor Lyman, b. 1735, dau,
of John Lyman and Abigail Moseley; settled near Hadley, Mass.;
he d. 1768, and his widow was appointed administrator; she m.
(2) Sept. 13, 1775, Oliver Morton of Whateley, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
811 Eleanor Pomerov, bp. 17G0. +
812 Enos Pomeroy, b. April 2i, 1761. ■+■
813 Elect-\ Pomeroy, bp. Jan. 13, 1765; m. March 29, 1786, Lewis
Stiles.
814 Elisiia Hawley Pomeroy, b. March 22, 1767.
334 HEMAN POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad, Elhveed), b.
June 27, 1734; m. Dec. 15, 1763, Esther Lyman, b. 1745, dau. of
Benjamin Lyman and Mary Moseley; he d. Dec. 27, 1781; she m.
(2) Jan. 7, 1789. Lieut. Samuel Parsons, whose first wife was
Lucy Pomeroy, who d. April 12, 1782; Esther d. June 4, 1829.
6th gen. Children:
815 Temperance Pomeroy, bp. Jan. 27, 1765; m. 1787, Justin Clark;
she d. Sept. 20, 1807.
816 Oliver Pomeroy, b. Oct. 4, 1767; m. Oct. 7, 1795, Sibble Pomeroy,
(1219) dau. of Daniel and Sybil (Kent) Pomeroy.
817 Heman Pomeroy, b. July 8, 1/70. "+-
818 Moses Pomeroy, bp. May 22, 1772; slain by Indians at St. Clair's
defeat in Ohio, Nov. 2, 1791.
819 Roswell Pomeroy, bp. Feb. 26, 1775. +
820 E.STiiER Pomeroy, bp. Julv 20, 1777; d. Dec. 7. 1851 : unm.
821 Elijah Pomeroy, bp. May 9, 1780; d. Jan. 25, 1810.
336 ESTHER POMEROY, {Ehenezcr, Ebenecer, Medad, Eltiveed),
bp. Aug. 7, 1736; m. Elijah Lyman, bp. Aug. 8, 1736, son of Lieut.
Gideon Lyman and Esther Strong, who d. Aug. 7, 1783; she d.
April 7, 1783. Resided in Northampton.
6th gen. Children:
822 Elijah Lyman, bp. Sept. 7, 1771 ; d. Aug. 24, 1778.
823 Esther Lyman, m. Elijah Arms, Jr.
824 Martha Lyman, m. 1795, Jacob Smith.
345 ADINO POMEROY, {Josiah, Ebeuczcr^ Medad. Eltz.ced). b,
Sept. 27, 1732, Northampton; m. (1) Nov. 18, 1760, Lois Strong,
b. March 4, 1737, d. March 14, 1801, dau. of Capt. Asahel Strong
and Ruth Hooker; m. (2) March 18, 1802, Sarah Christopher of
Middletown, Conn., to which place he removed in 1772. He was
a tanner, and Oct. 24, 1768, while a resident of Northampton, he
bought property on Main street, Middletown; he carried on busi-
ness there, and he and his wife were admitted to the First Church
by letter from Northampton, Feb. 25, 1770. Pittsfield, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
825 Polly Pomeroy, bp. Sept. 27, 1761. +
826 Nancy (Anne) Pomeroy, bp. Feb. 19, 1764. +
827 Lots Pomeroy, bp. March 30, 1766; d. April 7, 1776.
199 9iftlf (Srnrratian - Mths^
828 Clarissa Pomerov, bp. June 12, 1768. +
829 William Pomerov, h. Aug. 24, 1770: d. Wlay 16, 1771.
8.50 Sarah Pomeroy, b. April 21, 1772. -^
831 Susanna Pomerov, b. Oct, 14, 1774; d. Aug. 10, 1775.
M2 Lois Pomerov, b. April 27, 1777; d. Feb. 19, 1827; unm.
S33 \ViLLL\M Pomerov. b. April 2. 1780; lived in Pittsfield, Mass.;
joined the Shaker community at Lebanon, \\ Y. ; d. there, unm.
834 John Pomerov, b. Aug. 2, 1784. +
346 ELEAZER POMERcn', (Usiah, Ebcnczer, Mcdad, Eltwced)^ b.
Oct. 17, 1734; m. (Jet. 5, 1756, Lydia J'helps; removed from Sun-
derland. Mass., 1762, to Xorthfield, thence to Chesterfield, N. H.,
and to X'ermont in 1773.
6th gen. Children:
835 Sltsanna Pomerov, bp. Oct. 2, 1757.
836 Pamela Pomeuov, 1>. Jan. 0. 17rjO. ^-
M7 SoLO.MON Dodge Pomerov, bp. March 31, 1761.
838 Martin Pomerov, b. Jan. 23, 1763; m. Xov. 25, 1790. Dorcas
Chaml^erlain.
839 Lydia Pomerov, bp. Sept. 1, 1765; d. 1776.
840 Catherine Pomerov, bp. Sept. 20, 1767; d. 1776.
841 Mehitable Dodge Pomerov, b. Sept. 7. 1769; d. 1770.
842 Eleazar Pomerov, bp. March 17, 1771.
New Hampshire State Papers, X'^ol. 16. page 603, has the following:
"To the Committee of Clames or Treasurer
"Be Plesd To Pay to Colo Samll King what is Due to the Town of Chester-
field for Soldiers Crd Uy way of Dcprctiation or Hire.
"EBR. HERVEY
••ELE.\ZAR POMER.XY
"SAML DAVIS
"Chesterfield, December 16, 1783. Selectmen for Chesterfield."
(In the index this name is spelled Eleazar Pomeroy.)
Also, in New Hampshire State Papers, we find the following:
"Tories recommended to be discharged from Bonds.
"Wheras Ebenr Harvey. Elezar Pomeroy & Saml King were put under
Bonds by the Court held at Keen last June, and wheras the last years com-
mittee Rote some things to the Committee of Safety Att Exeter Concerning
their taking the oath of fidelity and as others taken with them we understand
are Discharged. We as the present Committee and Selectmen of this Town are
willing that the sd Ebenr Harvey. Elezar Pomeroy and Saml King should be
Discharged without Their sd Oath.
-JONATHAN HILDRETH, Chairman Committee."
347 SHAMMAH POMEROY, {Josiah. Ebenezer, Medad, Eltiveed),
b. Oct. 24, 1736; m. April 11, 1765, Anna Mattoon, b. April 20,
1744, d. Aug. 30, 1817, dau. of Nathaniel M. Mattoon and Hannah
Hubbard; saddle and harness business in Xorthfield; soldier of the
French and Indian war. Resided, Northfield, Mass.
6th gen. Children, b. in Northfield:
843 Sophia Pomeroy, b. Jan. 11, 1766; m. Jan. 28, 1787, Obadiah
Dickinson, b. 1757, Yale College, 1778, d. 1844; she d. Jan. 14,
1844.
844 Chester Pomerov, b. Jan. 20, 1768. +
dfmalag^ of tl|» Pom^ray J^amUg 300
845 Anna Pomerov, b. March 8, 1770; m. Nov. 3, 1793, Lucius Hub-
bard of Chester, Vt. ; a lawyer.
846 Patty (Martha) Pomerov, b. July 13, 1772; ni. July 1, 1795,
Dea. Elijah Paine of Ashiield, Mass., b. Nov. 29, 1760; gr. Yale
College, 1789; lawyer in Ashrteld; she d. Jan., 1842; had six sons,
three daughters; names not ascertained.
847 William Pomeroy, d. June 6, 1776. +
348 LUCY POMER(3Y, {Josiah^ Ebcnczcr, Medad, FAtwced), h. Feb.
15, 1739, at Northampton, Mass.; m. there Xov. 16, 1768, Lieut.
Samuel Parsons, b. June 30, 1733, at Northampton, d. Dec. 9,
1812, son of Lieut. William Parsons (John, Joseph) and wife
Mary Ashley; she d. April 12, 1782; he m. (2) Jan. 7, 1789.
Esther Lyman Pomeroy (dau. of Benjamin Lyman and wife Mary
Moseley, and widow of Heman Pomeroy, son of Ebenezer and
Elizabeth Hunt, his wife) ; Mrs. E.>lhcr Parsons d. lune 4, 1829.
ae. 84.
6th gen. Children, fc. at Northampton, Mass,:
848 Mary Parsons, b. Oct. 3, 1769; m. Zepheniah Hull Judson, b.
Dec. 13, 1770, at Woodbury, Ct. ; son of Joseph Judson, (Joseph,
John, Joseph, William of New iiaven, Ct.j and his third wife,
Lydia Hull; she d. Feb. 5, 1826. +
849 Sarah Parsons, b. Jan. 3, 1771 ; m. 1806, (his second wife) Dr.
Charles L. Seegur, b. April 10, 1763. at Menhardt, Germany , d.
May 30, 1848, at Northampton; he was learned in the sciences;
she d. March 28, 1858. +
850 Anne Parsons, b. May 9, 1773; d. Nov. 1, 1794; unm.
851 Capt. Luke Parsons, b. Xov. 22, 1774; cavalry captain in the
war of 1812; m. Sept. 8, 1801, at Wethcrsfield, V't., Nancy Streeter,
b. May 11, 1784, d. July 2i, 1853, dau. of Johnson Streeter and
wife Lydia Mason; he d. March 11, 1852, at Wellsboro, Pa. +
852 Lucy Parsons, b. Feb. 24, 1777; m. Dec. 23, 1797, Heman Pom-
eroy, (817) b. July 1, 1770, son of Heman Pomeroy and wife
Esther Lyman; she d. Dec. 3, 1843, at Easthampton, Mass.; re-
sided at Hanover, N. H. ; returned to Northampton, Jan. 15, 1803,
where he d. Feb. 16, 1852.
853 John Parsons, b. Oct. 22, 1778; m. Hannah Rogers at Rutland.
Vt., b. June 1, 1790, d. May 15, 1882, at Clarksville. N. H., dau.
of Daniel and Betsey Rogers; he was drowned in a mill-pond
near Pittsburg, N. H., Dec. 1, 1835. +
854 George Parsons, b. April 3, 1782; (his mother died nine days
later) ; m. Sept. 7, 1806, Sophia Lee, b. Dec. 30, 1773, at Becket,
Mass., d. July 10, 1849, at Joliet, III., dau. of David (David, David,
David, John of Farmington, Conn.) and Tabitha Lee; he d. Sept.
6, 1872, at Kalamazoo, Mich. +
yth gen. Children of Mary and Zepheniah H. Judson, (848):
855 Fanny Judson. 857 Lucy Judson.
856 Nancy Judson. 858 Julia Judson.
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859 OcTAviA JuDSON, d. June 5, 1825; bu. by the side of her mother
at Johnson's Creek, Niagara County, N. Y.
860 Hull Judson, b. 1806; d. July 4, 1828.
861 George Judson.
862 Mary Judson.
863 Samuel Parsons Judson, b. March 22, 1800; m. (1) April 21,
1821, Edith Sheldon, b. Jan. 1, 1798, at Kingsbury, N. Y., d. Jan.
17, 1832, at St. Louis, Mo.; he m. (2) Ann Janette Burnham; he
d. at Court-house Rock, Neb., Jan. 15, 1849.
864 Emeline Judson.
Children of Sarah and Dr. Charles L. Seegur, (8 49):
865 Euza Seegur, b. March 11, 1807; d. Sept. 26, 1885; unm.
866 Edwin Seegur, b. 1811; d. about 1880.
867 Augusta Seegur, b. April 21, 1813; d. Feb. 14, 1890.
868 Augustus Seegur, (twin with Augusta) b. April 21, 1813; d. be-
fore 1885.
Children of Luke and Nancy Streeter Parsons, (851):
869 Lucy Mason Parsons, b. Aug. 5, 1803, at Wethersfield, Vt. ; m.
Oct. 16. 1831, Lewis Darling, M.D., b. March 5, 1804, at VVooil-
stock, Vt, d. July 23, 1882, son of Seth Darling (Thomas, Ben-
jamin, Denice) and Chloe Marsh (Joseph), gr. Dartmouth Col-
lege, 1829; surgeon of the 161st N. Y. \'ol. Inf. in the Civil War;
settled in Lawrenceville, Pa., 1831 ; she d. there March 22, 1884. -H
870 Emeline Barton Parsons, b. Oct. 30, 1805; m. Oct. 17, 1831,
Otis L. Gibson, M.D., b. June 8, 1807, at Croydon, N. H., d. July
31, 1863, at Wellsboro, Pa., son of William Gibson and wife Abi-
gail Sanger; she d. at Wellsboro, May 6, 1865.
871 Caroline Parsons. 875 Alexander H. Parsons.
872 Osden W. Parsons. 876 Juliett Parsons
i7i Lorenzo M. Parsons. 877 Luke J. Parsons.
874 Noble L. Parsons. 878 Nancy S. Parsons.
(Eight children died in infancy.)
879 Ellen Chipman Parsons, b. June 12, 1819, (adopted Dec, 1819).
at Palmyra, N. Y., dau. of Stephen Chipman and wife Hannah
Stone; m. Feb. 6, 1838, Dr. Oliver Van Dusen, b. Oct. 9. IS14; he
was killed by the falling of a flag-pole in Troy, Pa., Sept. 5, 1844:
she d. Sept. 14, 1905, at Allandale, N. J.
Children of John and Hannah R. Parsons, (853):
880 Betsey Parsons, b. 1817; m. about 1837, Calvin Prouty of Here-
ford, P. Q., who d. Feb., 1866; she d. Nov., 1869. Lived in
Canaan, Vt.
881 Samuel H. Parsons, b. .Sept. 21. 1820; m. March 15, 1848, Han-
nah Munn of Hereford, P. Q., b. June 18, 1824, dau. of James
and Fanny Munn.
Children of George and Sophia Lee Parsons, (854):
882 Jane E. Parsons, b. June 20, 1807; m. May 6, 1832, William
Augustus Strong of Joliet, 111. ; hardware merchant.
883 George Parsons. Jr., b. Sept. 21, 1809; d. May 16, 1812.
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884 Sophia Streeter Parsons, b. March 22, 1812; ni. Xov. 3, 1835,
Hon. Charles Edward Stuart, b. Xov. 25, 1810, at Martha's \'ine-
yard, Mass., son of Dr. Charles Stuart and wife Catherine Par-
sons, lie was a member of the House of Representatives, 1847-
1852; United States Senator from Michigan. 1852; he raised and
equipped the 13th Michigan Infantry, and was chosen and com-
missioned its Colonel but owing to ill-health he was unable to go
to the front; he d. at Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10, 1887.
Sth gen. Children of Lucy M. and Or, Lezcis Darling, b. Lazv-
renceville, (86pj:
885 Otis Luke Darlixg, b. and d. 1832, at Lawrenceville, Pa.
886 Lewis Gibson Darling, b. July 14, 1833; d. May 17, 1834.
iiS7 Horace Madison Darling, b. Feb. 0, 1835; m. July 31, 1870,
Mollie James, b. June 17, 1836, at Glanmorganshire, South Wales,
Gt. B.: d. Jan. 1(>. 1880; he m. (2) Oct. 18. 18*L\ Hannah Mary
Webb, b. June 1, 1842, at Goshen, N'. V., dau. of Fesius Ambrose
Webb and (his first wife) Sarah Jane Smith; he was gr. from the
University of Michigan ; member of Sigma Phi Society ; was M.
D., LL. b., and a Mason. At the outbreak of the rebellion he
was in the South and l>ecame chief-surgeon on the staff of Con-
federate General Pemberton ; he d. June 21, 1900, Pine City, X. Y.,
bu. at Elmira, N. Y.
888 BosTOCK Jason Darling, b. Nov. 24, 1836; d. Sept. 2, 1846.
889 Luke Parsons Darling, b. Jan. 5, 1839; Hobart College, Geneva,
N. Y. ; member of Sigma Phi Society ; Royal Arch Mason ; com-
missary of subsistence in the Confederate army; d. Feb. 24, 1889,
at Kansas City, Mo.; bu. at Lawrenceville, Pa.
890 Lewis Darling, Jr., b. Oct. 19, 1840; gr. University of Michigan,
1866; physician and surgeon; assistant-surgeon in both the army
and navy of the L'nited States during the Civil War; practiced
medicine in Lawrenceville, Pa.; m. Jan. 1, 1867, Julia Lavilla Day,
b. Aug. 5, 1843, at West Avon. Conn., only dau. of Carlos Curtis
Day (Erastus) and wife Lavilla Woodruff (Titus). +
891 Thomas \*elpeau Darling, b. Oct. 16, 1842: militarv service in
the United States marine corps during the Civil War; m. May 3,
1868, Delphine Charles, b. June 1, 1849, at West Cameron, N. Y..
dau. of Henry Charles and wife Maria Whitmarsh of Lawrence-
ville; he d. Sept. 22, 1890, and in Oct., 1909, his remains were
removed to the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va. ; Mrs. Darling
removed to Washington, D. C, in 1891.
892 Emmeline Gibson Darling, b. April 2, 1845; gr. Hartford
(Conn.) Female Seminary, 1864; unm. Makes her home with
her brother, Lewis Darling.
Qtli gen. Children of Lewis and Julia L. Darling, b. Lawrence-
ville, (8qo):
893 Arland Lewis Darling, b. June 22, 1870; physician and surgeon;
m. Nov. 3. 1897, Rue Bowman Lindsley, b. July 29, 1869, at Em-
porium, Pa., dau. of Clarence Lindsley (Abram) and Eliza Clarke.
894 Carlos Parsons Darling, b. May 8, 1876; gr. Hobart College,
a03 Jiftlf (6emrat\an - Mfhsih
Geneva, N. Y., 1894; member of Sigma Phi Society; he has the
commissions of Capt. Luke Parsons, war of 1812; also, oil paint-
ings (1802) of Capt. Luke Parsons and wife. He is in business
as druggist at Lawrenceville, Pa., and manager of Bell Tele-
phone Co.
895 Walter William Darling, b. March 20, 1880; gr. Brooklyn (N.
Y.) College of Pharmacy, 1901; druggist at Lawrenceville, Pa.;
m. Jan. 1, 1910, Ellen Maria Perkins, b. Sept. 5, 1881, at Baldwins-
ville, N. Y., dau. of Charles Jenckes Perkins and wife Anna The-
resa Holihan of Williamsport, Pa.
loth gen. Children of Arland L, and Rue B, Darling, b. Law-
renceville, Pa., (Sqj):
896 Lewis Arland Darling, b. Sept. 15, 1898.
897 Charles Ma.son Darling, b. Dec. 12, 1899.
898 Waldo Po.meroy Darling, b. Jan. 31, 1909.
349 JOSIAH POMEROY (Josiah, Ebenezcr, Medad, Eltiveed), b.
July 11, 1741; gr. Yale College, 1762, M.D. ; m. Joanna Wright
of Xorthfield, 1762 ; settled in Warwick, Mass. ; he was banished
as a loyalist during the Revolution ; lived for a time in Keene, N.
H. ; and on Long Island; d. Aug. 17, 1821.
6th gen. Children:
899 Olive Pomeroy, b. Aug. 16, 1763. +
900 Phineas Ashley Pomeroy, b. Dec. 10, 1764. +
901 Josiah Pomeroy, b. Sept. 1, 1767. +
902 Eliphaz Pomeroy, b. April 13, 1770.
903 Aaron Pomeroy, b. May 27, 1772. +
904 Joanna Pomeroy, b. March 6, 1774.
905 Arad Pomeroy, b. July 31, 1776. +
906 Nancy Pomeroy, b. Feb. 24, 1780; unm.; d. in Salem, Mass.
907 Henry Pomeroy, b. Aug. 11, 1782. +
Gen. Keed was a resident of Keene, N. H., for a few years, occupying the
confiscated estate of Dr. Josiah Pomeroy, which was leased to him by the btate.
(See New Hampshire State Papers, vol. 11, pp. 672-675.) In connection with the
same confiscated estate. Vol. xvi, p. 435, New Hampshire State Papers, has the
following:
•Dec. 18, 1780. Petition of James Reed of Keen, N. H." After reciting
many grievances, continues:
•'Whereupon your Humble Petitioner Petitioned this Honble Corte for some
relief by way of the evacuated farms for which he has hazarded his life & for
the convenens of exercise and some other reasons mentioned to this Honble
Cortc Dr. Josiah Pomeroyes of Keen as he was an absentee the Honble Corte
was graciously pleased to make him a grante of a part of sd Farme in Nov 1779
under sarting limetations but as your Petitioner could not enter by virtue of sd
grante he was obliged to pay £350 for the use of sd Farme until the first day
of May 1781. Sd Farme being now the property of this State is to be inven-
tured & sold att Vandue. Your Petitioner hath made inquiry & finds that the
sd Doct Pomeroyes Purches was some £700 & the sd estate owes sum moar
than £500. Proses of one not of morn £400 will not give up the obligation
short of the value in silver money or at the exchange now common."
I
(Sfttralogg of tiff Pomrrog J^amtlti 204
He then recites: **That he had not received allowance from the Continent
for loss of pay and was obliged to pay £350 for use of sd Farnie for one year
out of the nominal sum of established wages praying the Corte to take all the
surcumstances under consideration.
"James Reed, B. G."
350 EUNICE POMEROY. (Josiah, Ebcnczcr, Mcdad, Elti.ccd), b.
Sept. 8, 1743; m. (1) 1772, Jonathan Hall; m. (2j Xov. 25. 177^',
Rev. Noah Williston of West Haven, b. July. 1773; gr. fruni Vale,
1757, ordained at West Haven, Conn., June, 1760; ni. (Ij Han-
nah Payson, of Pomfret, Conn., who d. 1709, ae. 27) he d. Xov.
10, 1811; Eunice d. April 4, 1807. He had four children by tirst
wife, upon whom Eunice lavished all motherly love and attention.
6th gen. Children:
^X)8 Pavson Williston, b. 1764; gr. from Yale 1783: settled as
pastor in Easthanipton, 1789; d. Jan. 30, 1856; ae. \)2.
^W SiVKAii WiLLi.-ToN, b. 1765; m." Rev. Richard .Ndtcr Siorrs of
Lyme, Conn., father of Richard Salter Storrs of Uraintree, Mass,,
and grandfather of Richard Salter Storrs of Brooklyn. X. Y.
910 Rev. David Howe Williston, who settled in Tmibridgc, \'t.
911 Hannah Williston, m. Rev. Ebenezer Kingsbury, who settled in
Jericho, Vt, removed thence to Hartford, Pa., where he died. He
graduated from Yale in 1783; d. 1842.
351 DOROTHY POMEROY, {Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad, Elhcecd),
b. Feb. 2, 1745; she was an intellectual young lady of high per-
sonal accomplishments; m. Nov. 20, 1770, Gov. John Treadwell,
LL. D., of Farmington, Conn., b. Xov. 23, 1745, d. Aug. IS, 1823,
son of Ephraim, (John, Samuel, Edward j ; settled in Middletown,
Conn., and engaged in mercantile pursuits. His father was a
mechanic by calling, of a competent fortune and a standing among
the most respectable of the town. Both parents were pious and
IxDth lived to an advanced age, and after peaceful and serene lives,
died in the faith of the Gospel. John Treadwell received the rudi-
ments of an English education at the village common school; but
when he was 16 years of age his father olYcred him opportunity
for a liberal education and gave him one week to deliberate on
the choice. He accepted the offer and entered Yale College in
1763, graduated in 1767, and studied law. He was unsuccessful
as a merchant in his native town, but extricated himself by enter-
ing upon the manufacture of nitre, then in demand for use in the
army.
"Hon. John Treadwell was the last of the Puritan Governors
of Connecticut; the last example afforded by their annals of the
union, in the person of the chief magistrate, the statesman and the
theologian. His exclusion from office after many years of tried and
faithful service to the state, constituted the first departure from the
line of 'steady habits* of Connecticut, and was the new order of
things, retainini^ but few characteristics of the ancient connection
between church and state.'* — (Memoir by Prof, Olmstead of Yale
College, )
205 JTiftlf dSFttrratUin - HUdaii
6th gen. Children:
912 I\)LLY 1 READWELL, h. Xov. 2cS, 1771 : d. March 18, 1774.
913 UoLLv Treadwell. b. March 22, 1774; m. March 26, 1794, Ro-
manta Xorton (widower), b. April 3, 1768, d. July 31, 1839, son
of Ichabod Norton and wife Ruth Strong; she d. Nov. 19, 1860. +
914 Eunice TREAowiiLL, b. July 13, 1776: n^ March 26, 1794, Erastus
Gay, b. Sept. 21, 1772, d. May 27. 185.">, son of Fisher Gay and
wife Phebe Lewis; she d. June 24, 1808. 4-
915 John Pomerov Treadwell, h. Oct. 19, 1778; m. Feb. 13, 1805,
Hannah Edwards W'ctmore, dau. of Deacon C^Hver Wetmore of
Middletown, Conn.; settled at Middletown. where he engaged in
mercantile business; she d. there April 5. 1857; he d. Oct. 11, 1839,
Baltimore, Md. +
916 Lucy Treadwell. b. May 18, 1781 ; m. Aug.. 1803, Rev. Amasa
Jerome, b. 1775. Stockbridge, Mass.. d. April 5. 1832. Xew Hart-
ford, son of Samuel Jerome and wife Lucy Foster; she d. Sept.
26, 1804. +
917 George Treadwell, b. Oct. 4, 1783; m. Xancy Curtiss; d. July
25, 1842. +
918 Mary Treadwell. b. Dec. 28, 1786: m. Sept. 17, 1814, Erastus
Perry, b. April 17, 1787, Richmond, Mass., d. May 3, 1858, Al-
bany, N. Y., son of Rev. David Perry and wife Jerusha Lord; she
d. Aug. 10, 1825; he m. (2) Clarinda Crittenden, dau. of Levi
Crittenden of Richmond, Mass. +
^th gen. Child of Dolly and Romania Norton, (913):
919 ToHN Treadwell Norton, b. ; m. Marv Pitkin, dau. of Hon. Tim-
othy Pitkin; she d. 1829; he m. (2) Elizabeth Griswold. dau. of
Dr. Mason Griswold of Hartford, Conn. : he d. Sept. 5. 1852.
Children of Eunice and Erastus Gay, (914):
920 Fisher Gay, b. Feb. 21, 1795; m. Harriet Wadsworth, dau. of
Luke Wadsworth.
921 PnEBE Gay, b. Feb. 12, 1799; m. Sept. 29, 1823, Thomas Mygatt
of Canton, Conn., b. Oct. 25. 1797. d. July 25. 1875. son of Thomas
Mvgatt and wife Lucv Oakes; she d. Dec. 13, 1869.
922 Mary Gay. b. Dec. 22, 1802; m. Oct. 12. 1825, Henry Root, b.
• July 27, 1792, d. Sept. 7, 1853, son of Mark Root and Abi Wood-
ruff; she d. Aug. 30, 1886, Buffalo, N. Y.
923 William Gay, b. Sept. 22, 1805.
924 Almira Gay, b. Aug. 31, 1807; d. Jan. 6, 1872.
925 Charles Gay, b. Jan. 7, 1814.
926 Elizabeth Perkins Gay, b. Aug. 12, 1818; d. Dec. 26, 1851,
Farmington, Conn.
Children of John P. and Hamxah Treadwell, (915):
927 Oliver Wetmore Treadwell, b. Dec. 31, 1806; m. July 31, 1834,
Anna Helena Kramer, dau. of Frederick Kramer and Mary Ren-
frew; he conducted Mount Hope Seminary for young ladies in
Baltimore, but later resided in New Haven, Conn.; he d. April
7, 1879.
928 Eunice Gay Treadwell, b. July 23, 1808; d. Nov. 24, 1808.
(SrneaUigy of tl|» Pom^rog J^atnUg 20fi
929 John Goodwin Treadwell, b. Jan. 26, 1811; m. April 30. 1841,
Ellen Tinker Holmes, dau. of Jacob Holmes and Anna Tinker;
she d. Jan. 3, 1870; he d. June 25, 1900.
930 William Brewster Treadwell, b. Jan. 26, 1813; m. May 14,
1844, Mary Eliza Adams, dau. of Roland Adams and Lydia Web-
ster, of Albany, N. Y. ; she d. Jan. 15, 1872; he d. April 16, 1869.
931 Dr. Sa.miel Edwards Treadwell. b. Dec. 17, 1815; m. Sept. 12,
1836, Anna Stamp, dau. of Mordecai Stamp of Talbot County,
Md. : he d. April 30, 1860, in New York.
932 Sarah Wetmore Treadwell, b. May 20, 1818; d. May 18, 1845;
unm.
933 Edward Francis Treadwell, b. \\i^. 29, 1820; m. April 21, 1847,
Rosina Hamil. dau. of Thomas Hamil and Elizabeth Carter of
Baltimore, Md., b. Jan. 23, 1823, d. Jan. 11, 1888, Flushing, X. Y.;
he was an attorney-at-law in Xcw York City; d. Feb. 9, 1868,
Flushing, N. Y.
Children of Lucy and Amasa Jerome, ((^i6):
934 George Jerome.
935 Lucy Jerome.
Children of George and Nancy Treadivcll, (917):
936 Lucy Treadwell; m. Augustus Cowles of Farminglon, Conn.
937 Emma Treadwell; m. Daniel Sparhawk of New Hampshire; he
d. 1859; s. p.
938 George Curtiss Treadwell; m. 1836, Amy Roberts, dau. of Eli
Roberts of Albany, N. Y.
939 Jane Treadwell.
940 Ann Treadwell, m.
941 Henry Treadwell, m. Eliza Roberts.
Children of Mary and Erastus Perry, (gi8):
942 John Strong Perry, b. 1815; m. Mary Jane Willard, dau. of
losiah Willard of Plattsburg, N. Y.
943 Roger Hooker Perry, b. 1817: d. 1818.
944 Samuel Perry, b. 1819; d. 1820,
945 Mary Perry, b. and d. 1821.
946 Mary Perry, b. 1823.
947 Mary Norton Perry, b. Dec. 28, 1828; was the only child by the
second wife.
352 BENJAMIN POMEROY, {Josiah, Ebenczer, Mcdad. Eltweed),
b. March 16, 1747; m. Nov. 21, 1770, Esther Clarke, dau. of Dea.
Josiah C. Clarke, b. Nov. 24. 1748, Northampton, d. Jan. 12, 1827;
he d. Oct. 20, 1834. They settled in Williamsburg, Mass., to
which place they moved about 1777. He was a Sergeant in Capt.
Oliver Lyman's company, in the war of the Revolution.
6th gen. Children:
948 Samuel Pomeroy, b. Oct. 27, 1771. 4-
949 Lydia Pomeroy, b. Aug. 11, 1773. +
950 Selaii Pomeroy, b. Oct. 7, 1775. +
2B7 Ifxftii (6fmr9t\att - Mfhsih
951 JosiAn PoMEROY, b. Jan. 5, 1778. +
952 Esther Pomeroy, b. Jan. 27, 1781 ; m. Gaius Searle of Southamp-
ton, Mass.
953 Llcv Pomeroy, b. May 19, 1783; m. (1) March 10, 1802, Phineas
Graves of Hatfield, who d. 1815; m. (2) 1842, Israel Searle of
Southampton.
954 Dea. William Pomeroy, b. July 24, 1785. +
955 Mary (Polly) Pomeroy, b. Sept. 4, 1787. +
354 REV. SETH POMEROY, (Scth, Ebcnezcr, Mcdad, Eltweed), b.
Sept. 26, 1733; gr. from Yale, 1753; in Sept., 1749, he was re-
ceived as a well-qualified member of Yale College, and during his
four years continuance there he applied himself to his studies with
uncommon diligence, and was esteemed one of the best .scholars
of his time. In Sept., 1753, he received the first honors of the
college. The next year he was admitted to full communion with
the Church of Christ in Northampton, Mass. Some months of the
year 1756 he spent at Cambridge in the study of theology, and in
July took a degree there. In Sept. of the same year he returned
to Xew Haven and received the honor of Master's degree, soon
after which he was appointed one of the tutors of Yale College.
He was licensed to preach by the Association in the county of
Xew Haven, in June, 1757, and his ministration in the pulpit
was much admired from the first. It was soon after this that the
church in Greenfield invited him to come and preach. He ex-
celled in the languages, in history, and oratory; and his delivery
was graceful. Two years after his call to preach at Greenfield,
Sept. 19, 1759, he m. Sarai Law, b. March, 1737, who d. May 6,
1783; she was dau. of Ex-Governor Jonathan Law of Massa-
chusetts and Eunice Hale; he d. at Greenfield Hill, Conn., Julv
1, 1770.
6th gen. Children:
956 Setii Pomeroy, b. July 24, 1766, Greenfield, Conn.; d. in infancy.
957 JoN.VTHAN Law Pomeroy, b. Sept. 12, 1768, Greenfield; gr. Yale
College, 1801, (Hon.) A. M.; studied theology; m. Oct. 20, 1792, at
Preston, Conn., Betsey Coit, dau. of Benjamin Coit and Mary
Tyler (widow of Elijah Boardman). He settled in the ministry
at Worthington, Mass., where he remained as a successful and
respected pastor thirty-eight years. He d. at Feeding Hills, Jan.
4, 1836; s. p.
958 Theophilus Po.meroy; no records at hand.
959 Martha Law Pomeroy, b. 1773. +
355 QUARTUS POMEROY, {Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltwced), b.
May 14, 1735, Northampton; he followed his father's business
of smith and gunmaker, and farmer; m. (1) Nov. 4, 1762, Phebe
Sheldon, b. Aug. 10, 1735, d. May 30, 1776, dau. of Benjamin
Sheldon; he m. (2) Ckrt. 10, 1776, Rachel Pomeroy (his cousin), dau.
of Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy and Rachel Moseley, b. Jan. 14, 1744-5,
d. Nov. 18, 1826. Service in the Revolution as private in Capt.
(6entBlaQXi of tl|» l^ontfrog Jfatnilg ZBB
Hezekiah Russell's company, May 6, 1782; he was also a Lieu-
tenant in one of the three companies of militia from Northampton,
after the reorganization of the First Hampshire Regiment, and
the Minute-men were organized from these companies. On the
13th of June, 1780, he was appointed on the committee to raise
soldiers to fill the quota required from Northampton. This com-
mittee had unlimited power, and whatever they promised the re-
cruits the town agreed to fulfill. The bounty paid at this time
for soldiers was £300, equal to about £5 in hard money, the
ratio being, (not 16 to 1) but 60 to 1. At a meeting, Oct. 13,
1780, he was elected a representative, Mr. Ephraim Wright being
also elected to that office: he was also prominent in all new edu-
cational enterprises. He died Nov. 3, 1803.
6tlt .c<^". Children, (by ist li'ifc) b. at Northampton:
960 Frances Susan Pomeroy, b. Nov. 3, 1763; d. 1823. unm.
961 Thaddelts Pomeroy, b. Oct. 23, 1764. +
962 Phebe Pomeroy, b. Feb. 9, 1766. +
963 Martha Pomeroy, b. Feb. 1.=^, 1768. +
964 Julia Pomeroy, b. Aug. 5, 1770; d. Sept. 14, 1773.
By second wife:
965 Seth Pomeroy, b. June 30, 1777. -+-
966 George Pomeroy, b. Aug. 8, 1779. +
967 Rachel Pomeroy, b. July 4, 1781. +
968 Betsey Pomeroy, b. Aug. 1, 1783. -+-
969 TuLiA Pomeroy, b. March 4, 1786; d. March 22, 178o.
970 Julia Pomeroy, b. June 10, 1787. +
(From the Sew England Historic and Genealogical Register, /1V7./);
"In the time of Quartus Pomeroy, son of General Seth Pomeroy.
"Deerfield. Mass.. Sept. 6. 1773.
"Vote d. That L. D. Field. John Williams, and Joseph P»arnard be a com-
mittee to apply to Mr. Quartus Pr^nieroy, of Nhampton & get him to come up &
take a view of the Meeting House Bell & if he can mend it to agree with him
to do it & if he thinks it must be sent home to be new ca<t or run sd Committee
are hereby empowered to send the same to England or pet it run in this country
if practicable as soon as may be & also to take such addition of metal as shall
make it weigh 500 weight. (Attest)
"John Hawkes, Moderator."
356 DR. MEDAD POMEROY, (Seth, Ebeneser. Medad, Eltwccd),
b. Nov. 12, 1736, Northampton; gr. Yale College. 1757; physician
at Northfield and Warwick; m. Oct. 15, 1767, Sarah Hunt, b. Feb.
26, 1746, dau. of Capt. Samuel Hunt (sister of Gov. Hunt of
Vermont) and Anna Ellsworth (who was dau. of John Ellsworth
of Windsor, Vt.) ; Dr. Pomeroy removed from Northfield in 1769,
but returned in 1788; he d. in Warwick, Mass., Oct. 28, 1819.
6th gen. Children:
971 Medad Pomeroy, b. March 28, 1769; d. April 17, 1769.
972 Sarah Pomeroy, b. May 25, 1771; d. Aug. 3, 1848; unm.
973 Martha (Patty) Pomeroy, b. Aug. 5, 1773. +
974 Mary Anna Pomeroy, b. July 5, 1775; d. May 1, 1793.
200 i^ittli (Sntrration - HUdad
975 Medad Pomerov, b. Aug. 11, 1777. +
976 Fanny Pomeroy, b. [an. 5, 1780. +
977 Seth Pomeroy. b. May 20. 1782. +
978 Arad Hunt Pomeroy, b. Jan. 15, 1785. +
► 979 John Pomeroy, b. July 12, 1787. +
While many of the Pomeroy men were engaged in putting down Shays'
rebellion, Dr. Medad Pomeroy was one of the victims. About the 21st of May,
1787, the rebels "had the audacity to seize the persons of two respectable citizens
of Massachusetts, Mr. Joseph Metcalf of Orange, and Dr. Medad Pomeroy of
Warwick, whom they carried to Vermont. Their avowed design was to hold
them as hostages for the lives of the prisoners. Parmenter and McCullock. Both
were allowed to escape in a few days, very soon after the first reprieve of the
prisoners was made known." — (Trumbull's "History of Northampton.**) Shays*
rebellion, so called after one of the leaders, was inaugurated by an eflFort on the
part of insurgents to interfere with the processes of the several courts in the
colony of Massachusetts in 1787. and for a time it met with partial success, not only
blocking the wheels of justice, but some of the rioters plundered towns and de-
livered prisoners from jails. It was not long, however, before the insurrection
was put down, and measures taken to bring to trial the leaders. While some of
the leaders were condemned to death in Hampshire county, two or three were
reprieved at the foot of the gallows, and eventually all were pardoned.
357 CAPT. LEMUEL POMEROY, (Scth, Ebenecer. Medad. Elt-
weed), b. Sept. 24, 1738, Northampton; m. (1) 1765, Louise Pyn-
chon, who d. Oct. 6, 1773, ae. 36; m. (2) 1776, Eunice Lyman,
who d. Nov. 25, 1788, ae. 39, dau. of Dea. Elias Lyman and Anna
Phelps; m. (3) Sept. 5, 1790, Betsey White Bliss, b. Dec. 17, 1747,
d. Jan. 17, 1836, dau. of Capt. Joel White of Bolton, Conn., and
widow of Rev. John Bliss, bv whom she had a number of chil-
dren. Lemuel Pomeroy settled in Southampton as early as 1766;
he joined the church there and was returned to the State Legis-
lature for forty years. He exerted great influence in town af-
fairs, and was, like his ancestors, a natural born leader, such an
one as every town needs. He was a gentleman of the old school,
tall, erect and very graceful in person. His dress was in the
Gen. Washington style. A local history says of him: "At an
early period in his life, Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy was elected to the
General Court, and was continued in the office without intermis-
( sion for nearly forty years, when he was the oldest member in
the Legislature. In times of public difficulty he proved himself a
firm friend of his country. He was respected and a worthy citi-
zen, an exemplary professor of religion, a supporter of good order
in societv, unshaken in his integrity — an honest man." He d.
Dec. 14. '1819.
6th gen. Children by ist nife:
980 Clarissa Pomeroy, b. 1766; d. 1822; unm.
981 Lemuel Pomeroy, b. 1768; d. 1776.
982 Louisa Pomeroy, b. 1768, (twin with Lemuel) ; d. young.
983 LoviSA Pynchon Pomeroy, b. 1769. +
984 Sarah Pomeroy, b. 1770. +
985 QuARTus Pomeroy, b. 1772; d. in New York; unm.
986 Margaret Pomeroy, b. Oct. 20, 1773. +
(SrttraUigii of tl^e Pom^roir ¥amxixi 210
Children by Jd zcifc:
957 Eunice Pomeroy, b. March 30. 1777; d. May 23, 1777.
958 Lemuel Pomerov. b. Aug. 18, 1778. +
989 Gamaliel Pomerov, b. Feb. 15, 1780. +
990 RuNicE Pomeroy. b. May 11, 1782: d. May 20, 1808; unm.
991 Theodore Pomeroy. b. March 14, 1785. +
992 Harriett Pomeroy, b. May 23, 1787. +
Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy served at intervals throughout the Revolution in
command of a company of Southampton troops. In July. 1777, the company
marched to reinforce Gen. Gates, with the regiment commanded by Col. Moseley
of Westfield, to meet Gen. Burgoyne's advancing army. They went by way of
Greenbush to Saratoga, thence to Moss Creek, near Fort Edward. As Burgoync
approached the regiment fell back to Stillwater, and after six weeks* service
they were discharged. After remaining at home about one month, there was
another alarm and he enlisted again, joining Col. May's regiment, with his
Southampton company. Under this alarm the company remained and was pres-
ent at the surrender of Burgoyne. In the battle of Bemis Heights the regiment
was stationed on the left near the Hudson. When Gen. Burgoyne retreated
beyond Schuyler's Creek, the troops followed close. Lemuel Pomeroy's com-
pany was among those that crossed the creek in a fog and suddenly found
themselves under the British guns. They crouched beneath the bank, recrossed
the creek and fell back.
Lemuel Pomeroy was also Captain of the Southampton company. Gen.
Seth Pomeroy's regiment, which marched in response to the alarm of April 19,
1775; "also Captain of the 7th Cist Southampton) company, 2d Hampshire
county regiment of Massachusetts militia. His name is also in a list of officers
chosen by the several companies in said regiment, as returned by said Pomeroy
and others, field officers, dated Northampton. March 22. 1776, and ordered com-
missioned by the Council April 8. 1776." There are many other entries of his
service during the war in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of
the Revolution."
358 MARTHA POMEROY, (Seth, Ehenecer, Medad. Eltweed), b.
Aug. 12, 1740, Northampton: ni. 1764, Rev. Bulkley Olcott, of
Charlestown, N. H., b. Oct. 28. 1733, son of Timothy Olcott and
Eunice White: he was graduated from Yale, 1758; ordained
pastor of the Congregational Church in Charlestown. N. H., May
28, 1761, and d. there June 13. 1792; she d. May 30, 1803.
6th gen. Children:
993 Hui.DAH Theodosi.\ Olcott, m. Gen. Lewis R. Morris of Spring-
field, Mass., b. 1797; she d. soon after marriage and left one son;
he m. (2) Ellen Hunt, dau. of Hon. Jonathan Hunt.
994 Martha Olcott, b. ; m. Jacob Smith of Royalston, Vt.
995 Theophilus Olcott, b. ; educated at Dartmouth, class of 1800;
lawyer in Royalston, Vt. ; d. unm.
996 LucRETiA Olcott, b. ; m. Rev. Hurlbut ; resided in Royalston, Vt. ;
they went south, where Rev. Mr. Hurlbut d. ; she m. again and
resided in Cincinnati, Ohio.
359 MARY POMEROY, (Seth, Ebenecer, Medad, Eltweed), b. Aug.
6, 1742, Northampton; m. May 26, 1771, Dr. Levi Shepherd, b.
Jan. 9, 1744. d. Oct. 26, 1805, son of James Shepherd and wife
Sarah Hopkins; she d. Jan. 13, 1762, Northampton. He settled at
Northampton in 1764 or 1765, and opened a store, 1769, Shepherd
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& Hunt, for the sale of drugs and medicines, eventually adding
groceries and dry goods to his stock, and other merchandise, much
imported from England, usually found in a well-equipped country
store. He began the manufacture of rope and duck in 1789, which
soon became a valuable article of commerce, and having erected a
factory on the rear of his home lot, north corner of River and Pleas-
ant streets, he was prepared to supply the improved demand. The
government offered a bounty of 8s per bolt for duck, and in the
year 1800 he disposed of large quantities of this cloth. He con-
ducted this business until his death. He was also active in the
Legislature (1706-98), all town enterprises, serving on commit-
tees of inspection and safety, new constitution, canals, school
houses, etc. President of first Board of Directors, Northampton
Bank (1803). His estate inventoried about $100,000; the wealth-
iest man up to that time.
6th gen. Children, b. at Northampton:
997 Mary Shepherd, b. April 28, 1772; m. May 3, 1794. Dr. Aeneas
Monson of New Haven, Conn., b. Sept. 11, 1763, New Haven.
Conn., d. Aug. 22, 1852, son of Dr. Aeneas and Susan Monson;
gr. Yale. 1780; she d. Feb. 6, 1848. +
998 Sarah Hopkins Shepherd, b. Time 23, 1774; m. June 8, 1798,
Hon. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., b. Dec. 28, 1772, Springfield, Mass.,
d. March 29, 1840, son of Jonathan Dwight and wife Margaret
Ashley; she d. Dec. 24, 1848. +
999 Levi Shepherd, b. Oct. 19, 1776; m. Mav, 1805, Elizabeth
Hutchins, b. 1788, d. Dec. 4, 1820; she d. July'28, 1826. +
1000 Thomas Shepherd, b. March 27, 1778; m.' Nov. 30, 1805, Cather-
ine Tryon, b. Dec. 23, 1782, New Lebanon, N. Y., d. Nov. 24,
1846. dau. of Judqre John Tyron and wife Eunice Lay; he
d. Dec. 23, 1846. Prominent citizen of Northampton, and post-
master. 1830-1841 and 1845-1846. 12 years. +
1001 Charles Shepherd, b. April 11, 1780; m. in 1811, Elizabeth
Howe of Roxburv. Mass.; he d. Feb. 27, 1821. 4-
1002 John Shepherd.' b. March 5. 1782; m. Sept. 30, 1805, Henrietta
Tryon, b. Nov. 6, 1784, d. July 21, 1806, dau. of Judge John
Trvon and wife Eunice Lay; he m. (2) Mav 30, 1843. Jeannette
Nichols; he d. 1852. +
yth gen. Children of Mary and Aeneas Monson, (907):
1003 Alfred Shepherd Monson, b. Sept. 23, 1796: m. Mary Ann
Patten, b. in 1804, d. April 28, 1887; he graduated from Yale,
1815. Union of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1819; he d. May 22, 1870.
1004 Charles Monson, b. 1799; d. unm.
1005 Mary Ann Monson, b. 1802; m. (1) George Y. Cutler; m. (2)
Daniel Whitney. She had three children by each marriage; d.
young.
1006 Frederick Monson. 1008 John Monson.
1007 Aeneas Monson. 1009 William Monson.
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/th gcfi. Children of Sarah and Jonathan Dziur/ht, (qqS):
1010 IonathAaN DwiGiiT. b. Aug. 30, 1799; m. 1825, Ann Bartlett of
Boston; he d. Dec. 28, 1856. +
1011 Mary Sheimirrd Dwight. h. Feb. 28, 1801; m. April 20. 1825,
Hon. George Bliss, son of George Bliss and Hannah Clark; Vale,
1812: he was for several terms a member of the Massachusetts
Legislature; also, engaged largelv in railroad enterprises; he d.
April 19, 1873; she d. April 12. 1869. +
1012 Sarah Hopkins Dwigut. b. Jan. 21, 1803; m. March 1. 1827,
Hon. George Bancroft, (the historian), b. Oct. 3, 1800; Harvard,
1817; she d. June 26, 1837. 4-
1013 William Dwigiit. b. April 5, 1805; Harvard. 1825. law; ni.
J^ept. 16, 1830, Elizabeth Amelia White of Springfield, Mass. +
1014 Thomas Dwight. b. Sept. 27, 1807; Harvard. 1827; m. Oct. 26,
1842. Mary Collins Warren of Boston. +
1015 LuciN'DA Dwight, b. July 7, 1809: m. 1832. Jonathan Chapman,
Jr.. lawyer, of Boston. +
1016 Frederick Dwight, b. June 23. 1815; gr. Harvard, law, 1834; m.
1854, Joanna Theresa Durham, b. Aug. 31. 1833. +
Children of Levi and Elizabeth Shepherd, (999):
1017 Emeline M. Shepherd, b. Mav 14, 1807; m. Dr. Stevens; d. Aug.
16. 1880; s. p.
1018 Stella Shepherd, b. ; m. Mark A. Miles. +
1019 Charles Levi (renamed Levi) Shepherd, b. 1816; m. 1839,
Percy Keves Williams, b. 1816, d. 1851; he m. (2) Mary Stan-
ton, b. 1830. +
Children of Thomas and Catherine Shepherd, froooj:
1020 Catherine Shepherd, b. Aug. 22, 1806; m. Sept. 14, 1827, Ogden
Ellery Edwards; she d. April 20, 1843. +
1021 Thomas Shepherd, b. Sept. 14, 1808; d. Aug. 23, 1809.
1022 Frederick Shepherd, b. March 25, 1810: d. Sept. 26, 1810.
1023 Henry Shepherd, b. Jime 19, 1811; m. Feb. 14, 1838, Elizabeth
Strong; m. (2) Sept. 23, 1851, Susan L. B. Munroe, b. Dec. 31,
1821, d. Jan. 11, 1897. Northboro, Mass., dau. of John F. Mun-
roe, Boston, Mass., and Susan L. Brigham, Westboro; he d. Nov.
20, 1900. Res., Northampton. +
1024 Henrietta Tryon Shepherd, b. Feb. 18, 1813; d. May 9, 1872;
unm.
1025 Thomas Shepherd, b. 1817; d. June 23, 1855, imm. , at Mari-
posa, California; a "Forty-Niner.*'
1025.1 Mary Shepherd, b. Oct. 11, 1818; d. Oct. 6, 1819.
1026 Jane Shepherd, b. Sept. 23, 1820; d. Sept. 24, 1820.
1027 Mary Shepherd, b. Feb. 12, 1822; d. Jan. 16, 1826.
1028 Charles Shepherd, b. April 1, 1824; d. July 21, 1825.
Children of Charles and Elisabeth Shepherd, (looi):
1029 Maria Howe Shepherd, b. Sept. 28, 1813; m. Emerson Foote,
of Springfield, Mass.; she d. April 9, 1841.
1030 Sophia Shepherd, b. Dec. 3, 1815; d. Dec, 1896; unm.
1031 Louise Shepherd, d. young.
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1032 Sally Shepherd, d. young.
ChUd of John and Henrietta Shepherd, (1002):
1033 John Tryon Shepherd, b. June 20, 1806; m. (1) Dec. 25, 1839,
Rebecca Dunlap, b. Feb. 12, 1815, dau. of William and Jane
(Long) Dunlap; m. (2) Mary Stebbins, dau. of Salmon and
Susan (Hine) Stebbins, b. May 2, 1818; m. (3) Elizabeth Steb-
bins; he had a government claim near Kenosha, Wis., where the
children were born. +
8th gen. Children of Jonathan and Ann Dzvight, (loio):
1034 Ann Bartlett Dwight, b. 1826; m. 1851, Charles Taintor Baker;
she d. 1899.
1035 Jonathan Dwight, b. 1831; m. 1857, Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck.
Children of Mary S, and George Bliss, (ion):
1036 Sarah Bllss, b. 1826; m. 1849, Hon. George Walker.
1037 Ge(jrge Bliss, b. 1830, m. Catherine \'an Rensaeller Dwight.
Children of Sarah H. and George Bancroft, (1012}:
1038 Sarah Dwight Bancroft, b. Aug. 18, 1831; d. Jan. 11, 1832.
1039 Louisa Bancroft, b. Jan. 20, 1833; d. Aug. 9, 1850.
1040 John Chandler Bancroft, b. April 24, 1835; Harvard, 1854; m.
Aug. 18, 1864, Louise Maria Denny.
1041 George Dwight Bancroft, b. Feb. 16, 1837; Harvard, 1856; m.
Louise Tailandier, of France.
Children of IVilliam and Elicabeth A. Dzvight, (loij):
1042 Brig.-Gen. William Dwight, b. 1831 : m. 1856, Anna Robeson.
1043 Col. Wilder Dwight, b. 1833; Civil War; d. on the battle field,
1862.
1044 Daniel Appleton Dwight, b. 1836; m. 1870, Mary Silsby Peale
of Boston.
1045 Capt. Howard Dwight, b. 1837; d. in service during the Civil
War.
1046 THO.MAS Dwight, b. 1841: d.
1047 Lieut. Charles Dwight, b. 1842; m. Marianna Humphrey Welch.
104S Chafm.w Dwight, b. 1844; gen.-supt. of the Lathrop-Roosevelt
Hospital in New York City.
Children of Thomas and Mary C. Dzvight, (1014):
1(H9 Dr. Thomas Dwight, b. 1843.
1050 Susan Lyman Dwight, b. 1847; d. 1850.
1051 Mason Warren Dwight, b. 1849; d. 1850.
1052 James Dwight, b. 1852.
1053 Mary Veronica Dwight, b. 1856; unm.
Children of Lucinda and Jonathan Chapman, (1015):
1054 Jonathan Chapman, b. 1836; m. Ellen Irvin.
1055 Eliza Chapman, b. 1838; m. 1866, Jonathan William Post, of
Brookline, Mass.
1056 Susan Chapman, m. Frederick Dexter.
1057 Mary Chapman.
1058 Florence Chapman, m. Henry R. Dalton.
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Children of Frederick and Joanna T, Dwight, (1016):
1059 Alfred Dwigiit, b. 1855.
1060 Edwin Dwight, b. 1857.
1061 Frederick Pomerov Dwight, b. 1859.
1062 Edgar J. Dwight, b. 1862.
1063 Sarah Cecelia Dwight, I). 1865; unm.
1064 Eugene Dwight, b. 1868.
1065 John Dwight, b. 1870.
1066 Sophia Dwight. b. 1872.
1067 Walter Dwight, b. 1872, (twin).
Children of Stella and Mark A. Miles, (1018):
1068 Mary Miles, m. Sylvester Potter of Oregon, III.
1069 Augusta Miles, adopted by Mr. Loring of Boston; m. Thomas
B. King; d. 1870.
Children of Charles L. and Percy K, Shepherd, (ist wife}, (loipf:
1070 Frank Pomerov Shepherd, b. 1841; m. 1871, Lydia Catherine
Starr.
1071 Stella E. Shepherd, b. 1843; m. Charles Clayton Monson.
1072 Emeline Augusta Shepherd, b. 1844; d. 1859.
1073 Ernest Miles Shepherd, b. 1848; m. 1882, Zilpah E. Perkins;
d. 1892.
1074 Charles Percy Shepherd, b. 1851; (adopted by Mrs. Virgil
Bogue and renamed Charles Percy Bogue) ; m. Clara Gulick, of
Elgin, 111.
Children by 2d wife, (loig):
1075 Florence Shepherd, b. 1855; m. 1881, Francis Little, of Winona,
Minn.
1076 Nellie Shepherd, b. 1857; m. Charles Harris of Bandera, Texas.
1077 Mabel Shepherd, b. 1861 ; d. young.
1078 Fanny Shepherd, b. 1864; d. young.
Children of Catherine and Ogden E. Edzvards, (ro2o):
1079 Ogden E. Edwards, b. 1829; m. (1) Helen M. Edwards, who d.
1884; m. (2) 1888, Mary Goodloe.
1080 Fanny Edwards, b. 1830; m. Warren Rogers.
1081 Mary Edwards; d. young.
1082 Catherine Edwards; d. young.
1083 Thomas Edwards; d. young.
1084 Robert Sedgwick Edwards, b. 1838; killed in battle during the
Rebellion.
1085 Anna Louise Edw.\rds, b. 1840; unm.
Children of Henry and Elicabeth Shepherd, (ist wife), 1023:
1086 Mary E. Shepherd, b. Nov. 26, 1839; m. in Nov., 1868. James
Cowgill; d. April 3, 1875.
1087 Helen Shepherd, b. Feb. 1, 1842; m. W. Sanford Crane, Sept.,
1868; d. Nov. 20, 1880.
1088 Catherine Tryon Shepherd, b. May 12, 1844; m. June 13, 1867.
Albert Edward Smith, b. Feb. 26, 1845, North Amherst, Mass..
son of Charles and Angeline Smith. Res., Springfield, Mass. +
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Child of Henry and Susan L. B. Shepherd. (3d wife), (1033):
1089 Thomas Munroe Shepherd, b. Sept. 18, 1856; unm. Banker.
Res., Northampton. Donor of the Henry Shepherd Surgery Hos-
pital, Northampton, 1901. Designer city seal, Northampton. Re-
ceiver U. S. Court for Taber-Prang Art Co., Springfield. Re-
tired 1907.
Children of John T, and Rebecca Shepherd, (1033):
1090 Jeanette Gallagher Shepherd, b. Aug. 28, 1840; m. 1860, Isaiah
L. Hauser. +
1091 William Tryon Shepherd, b. Feb. 14, 1842; m. 1866, Mary
Bragdon.
1092 Frederick Henry Shepherd, b. Oct. 10, 1845; m. Flora Green.
1093 John Herbert Shepherd, b. June 20, 1852; m. Katie
1094 Charles Moxson Shepherd, b. March 6, 1854; m.
Qth gen. Children of Catherine and Albert E. Smith, (1088):
1095 Henry Shepherd Smith, b. May 6, 1875; m. Sept. 27, 1898,
Grace M. Schenck, dau. of Marcus P. Schenck and Louise Jones.
1096 Albert Mavnard Smith, b. March 18, 1876; d. July 14, 1876.
1097 Philip Wright Smith, b. Jan. 31, 1881; d. Aug. 19, 1882, Spring-
field, Mass.
Of the Children of Jeanette G, and Isaiah L, Hauser, (ioqo):
1090.1 Miriam Pomeroy Hauser, b. Nov. 2, 1875, Milwaukee, Wis.; m.
July 16, 1901, Carl A. Rosser, b. Oct. 2, 1875, Arcanum, Ohio,
son of William F. Rosser and wife Sarah Olwine. Mrs. Miriam
Pomeroy Rosser passed her girlhood in India with her parents,
who were missionaries, from 1886 to 1893. Res., Arcanum, Ohio.
loth gen. Children of Miriam P. and Carl A, Rosser, b. at
Arcanum, (logo.i):
1090.2 Bernard Pomeroy Rosser, b. Aug. 15, 1902.
1090.3 RoLLiN La Barr Rosser, b. May 27, 1904.
1090.4 Harold Ar.mond Rosser, b. Nov. 10, 1905.
1090.5 William Frederic Rosser, b. Aug. 30, 1907.
360 SARAH POMEROY {Seth, Ebenczer, Medad, Eltweed), b. June
17, 1744, Northampton, Mass.; m. Dec. 26, 1770, Abraham Bur-
!)ank, b. March 7, 1739, son of Abraham Burbank of Suffield,
Conn., and wife Mehitable Dwight; Yale, 1759; prominent lawyer
in W'est Springfield, member of the Massachusetts Legislature six-
teen years; d. Sept. 8, 1809; she d. Dec. 25, 1808. Res., West
Springfield.
6th gen. Children:
1098 Roland Burbank, b. June 15, 1772; m. (1) Nov. 17, 1802, Sophia
Coit, b. Oct., 1776, dau. of John Coit and Mehitable Tyler of
Griswold, Conn.; he m. (2) Feb. 16, 1815, Henrietta Palmer of
West Springfield, Mass.; he d. Sept. 20, 1845. +
1099 James Burbank, b. March 7, 1775 ; lost at sea about 17%.
1100 Arthur Burbank, b. Oct. 19, 1776; d. Jan. 11, 1777.
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1101 Sarah Burbank, b. Feb. 5, 1778; m. Nov. 7, 1798, Capt. Daniel
Moore, b. 1769, of Xew London, Conn., d. May, 1819; she d.
Dec. 25, 1868. Res., Hartford, Conn., where their children were
born. +
1102 Mary Pomeroy Burbank, b. Oct. 30, 1779; m. Oct. 14, 1798,
Ransom Shelton of Plymouth, Conn.; she d. July 14, 1851. +
1103 Arthur Burbank, b. Jan. 9, 1782; m. Nov. 27. 1810, Sarah Bates,
dau. of Eleazer Bates; she d. Dec. 20, 1870, at Pittsfield, Mass.;
he was a tanner; d. May 28, 1839. Res., West Springfield. +
1104 Theoda Hunt Burbank, b. June 2S, 1783; m. Isaac Seeley, a
lawyer of Cherry Valley, N. Y. ; she d. July 28, 1828; s. p.
1105 Susanna Burbank, b. July 27, 1785; m. Isaiah Doolittle of Ply-
mouth, Conn.; she d. March 21, 1841. +
jth ^cn. Children of Roland and Sophia Burbank, (rst 2i*ife),
( lO^S) :
1106 Abraham Burbank, b. May 4, 1804; d. young.
1107 Abiah Bellamy Burbank, b. Dec. 22, 1S05; m. Nov., 1826, Den-
ison Baldwin Tucker, b. Oct. 28, 1801, d. Feb. IS, 1858, dau. of
Stephen Tucker and wife Eunice Baldwin ; he d. Feb. 18, 1858. +
1108 Sarah Pomeroy Burbank, b. Dec. 22, 1807; d. 1830.
1109 James Coit Burbank, b. July 19, 1810; d. 1813.
1110 Rebecca Coit Burbank, b. Oct. 21, 1812; unm.
Children of Roland and Henrietta Burbank (2d zcife), (ioq8):
nil Sophia Burbank, b. March 22, 1816; m. April 15, 1840, Elmer \V.
Smith, b March 27, 1816, d. Aug. 2, 1853, son of Amasa Smith
and wife Hannah White; she d. Sept. 19, 1884. +
1112 Mary Burbank, b. April 24, 1817; d. Feb. 27, 1824.
1113 Lucy Burbank, b. Dec. 3, 1818; d. Nov. 9, 1819.
1114 George Burbank, b. April 20, 1821; d. Sept. 20, 1890.
1115 Anne Burbank, b. Dec. 13, 1821; m. Sept. 23, 1841, Erastus
Bebee Abbe, b. Oct. 15, 1815, at Enfield, Conn., d. Aug. 27, 1879,
son of Erastus Abbe and wife Sally Bebee; she d. Feb. 19, 1911. +
1116 Martha Burbank, b. Sept. 29, 1823; d. Aug. 20, 1872.
1117 I.'^.MAii Doolittle Burdank. b. Dec. 14, 1825; d. June 16, 1826.
1118 Charles Burbank, b. Aug. 13, 1827: d. Sept. 27, 1827.
1119 Sarah Pomeroy Burbank, b. Aug. 8, 1831; d. Feb. 6. 1837.
Children of Sarah and Daniel Moore, (iioi):
1120 James Burbank Moore, b. Nov. 15, 1799; d. Feb. 7, 1824.
1121 Sarah Moore, b. Aug. 17, 1801; m. Henry Schmuck; she d. Sept.
10, 1870. +
1122 Martha Williams Moore, b. Sept. 13, 1803; m. in 1824, Daniel
Wadsworth, b. 1797, at Farmington, Conn., d. 1851, at Chicago,
111.; she d. at Chicago, 1857. 4-
1123 Mary Pomeroy Moore, b. July 5, 1805; d. Nov. 16, 1835.
1124 Elizabeth Grant Moore, b. July 25, 1807; d. Aug. 28, 1859.
1125 LucRETiA Moore, b. Sept. 7, 1809; d. Sept. 12, 1816.
1126 Susanna Moore, b. May 13, 1812; d. Dec. 8, 1815.
1127 Daniel Moore, b. Nov. 15, 1814; d. Dec. 27, 1815.
1128 Daniel Moore, b. Jan. 16, 1817; d. Nov. 21, 1847.
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Children of Mary and Ransom S Helton, (1102):
1129 Frances Burbank Shelton, b. 1801; m. Edward A. Nicol. +
1130 Mary Ann Shelton, b. about 1803; d. unm.
Children of Arthur and Sarah Burbank, (iioj):
1131 Sarah Burbank, b. Sept. 25, 1811; d. July 11, 1844, at Pitts-
field, Mass.
1132 Abraham Burbank, b. June 10, 1813; m. April 13, 1834, Julia
M. Brown ; he d. Nov. 23, 1887. +
1133 Hannah M. Burbank, b. July 10, 1814; m. (1) Dec. 31, 1838,
Henry M. Morse, who d. at Chicago, 1854; m. (2) Dec. 18, 1856,
Hiram Hurd.
1134 James Burbank, b. Dec. 28, 1817; m. Dec. 28, 1844, Frances H.
Alsbury, who d. July 5. 1882; he d. Feb., 1861. +
1135 Su-sanna D. Burbank, b. July 9, 1821; m. May 15, 1839, Sylves-
ter C. Wright, d. Dec. 16, 1880; she d. May 13, 1888, Fitchburg,
Mass. H-
1136 Theoda Hunt Burbank, b. Aug. 18, 1825; d. May 6, 1877.
1137 Mary Pomeroy Burbank, b. May 30, 1828; m. August M. Glines
of West Derby, Vt. +
Child of Susanna and Isaiah Doolittle, (1105):
1138 Abraham Doolittle, b. 1809; m. (1) 1833, Juliette Bire^e, b.
1812, d. 1840; he m. (2) 1841, Catherine Hooker, b. 1814, d.
1895. +
8th gen. Children of Abiah B. and Dennison B. Burbank, (1107):
1139 James Coit Burbank, b. Feb. 29, 1828; m. 1853, Ellen M. Wall-
bridge.
1140 Anna Louise Burbank, b. Jan. 15, 1832; m. in 1855, Henry R.
Jones.
1141 Frank D. Burbank, b. July 3, 1848; m. April 14, 1877, Harriett
Amelia Malona.
Children of Sophia and Elmer U\ Smith, (mi):
1142 Henrietta Smith, b. 1841; m. Henry M. Schenck.
1143 Anna Lx)uise Smith, b. 1844; d. 1853.
1144 Charles Elmer Smith, b. 1849; m. Nettie Clement of Water-
bury, Conn.
Children of Anne and Erastus B, Abbe, (1115):
1145 Frances Jane Abbe, b. 1843; d. 1872.
1146 Mary Pomeroy Abbe, b. Dec. 31, 1851, at West Springfield,
Mass.; m. March 2, 1881, Walter Anson Smith, b. Jan. 25, 1856,
at Ashfield, Mass., son of Arnold Smith and wife Melinda
Bronson.
1147 Martha Abbe, b. Dec. 31, 1851 (twin with Mary); unm.
Children of Sarah A/, and Henry Schmuck, (H2i):
1148 Kate Schmuck, b ; m. Frederick J. Sizer of New Haven,
Conn.; he d. there July 28, 1910, ae. 80 years.
1149 Henry Schmuck; m. (1) Theresa Purrington; m. (2) Henrietta
Smith.
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Children of Martha IV, and Daniel Wadsworth, (1122):
1150 LccRETiA Moore Wadsworth, b. 1825; d. 1853; unm.
1151 James Wadsworth, b. July 24, 1828, at New Hartford, Conn.;
ni. Dec. 16, 1856, Emily Wadsworth Whittlesey, b. Oct. 4, 1830,
at Farmington, Conn., d. Dec. 31, 1900, at Chicago, 111., dau. of
Harvey Whittlesey; he d. Dec. 26, 1900, at Chicago. Res., Chi-
cago, ill. +
1152 Strong Wadsworth, b. at Mexico, N. Y. ; m. Maria C. Phelps,
dau. of Erastus Phelps of Farmington, Conn., and wife Mary
Louisa Bodwell.
Children of Frances B, and Edward A. Nicol, (1129):
1153 Edward Nicol, d. in infancy.
1154 Mary Nicol, d. in infancy.
1155 S.ARAH A. Nicol, b. 1823; m. William Nicol.
1156 Augustus Nicol, b ; m. Esther Cooley of Ohio.
1157 Edward Nicol; unm.; lost at sea.
1158 Fannie A. W. Nicol; unm.
1159 John Nicol, b ; m. Sarah Green of Binghamton.
1160 Robert C. Nicol, d. infant.
Children of Abraham and Julia M, Burbank, (1132):
1161 Charles Henry BurbAxVK, b. Aug. 18, 1835; d. Oct. 3, 1843.
1162 George Wesley Burbank, b. Nov. 8, 1837; m. June 8, 1859,
Samantha L. Steams.
1163 James Arthur Burbank, b. Sept. 12, 1839; m. March 4, 1863,
Mary Sperry.
1164 Mary Elizabeth Burbank. b. Sept. 15, 1841; m. Dec. 12, 1865,
H. A. Smith; she d. Jan. 22, 1886.
1165 Charles Henry Burbank, b. Dec. 29, 1843; m. Jennie H. Brooks.
1166 William Pomeroy Burbank, b. April 4, 1846; m. 1867, Harriet
Merrill.
1167 Edward Alonzo Burbank, b. April 29, 1848; d. Jan. 20, 1849.
1168 Sarah Jane Burbank, b. Jan. 4, 1850; m. March 21, 1887. W.
W. Lamb; d. Dec. 15, 1871.
1169 Roland Eleazer Burbank, b. June 1, 1852; m. Nov. 1, 1876,
Mary Chamberlain.
1170 Herrick Alonzo Burbank, b. Dec. 19, 1854; m. Nov. 1, 1879,
Rose Seibcl.
Children of James and Frances H, Burbank, (1134):
1171 Frances Henrietta Burbank, b. Oct. 6, 1845; m. Nov. 14, 1866,
Zebulon M. Pike.
1172 Hanson Alsbury Burbank, b. Jan. 26, 1847; m. Oct. 13, 1878,
Mary E. Sparrow.
1173 Cora Raymond Burbank, b. Dec. 18, 1848; m. Jan. 10, 1869,
Capt. Edwin Lilly.
1174 Arthur Burbank, b. Nov. 13, 1850.
1175 James Burbank, b. Feb. 2, 1851; d. Nov. 7, 1854.
1176 Stella Virginia Burbank, b. March 5, 1855.
1177 Edward Plummer Burbank, b. Aug. 10, 1856.
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1178 Charles Cushman Burbank, b. July 26, 1858; m. March 27,
lcS81, Celeste Lacy.
Children of Susapina D, and Sylvester C, Wright, (1135):
1179 Ellen Josephine Wright, b. June 17, 1840, Enfield, Conn.; d.
July 26, 1866, Fitchburg, Mass.
1180 Mary Ann Wright, b. Nov. 24, 1844, PhilHpston, Mass.; m.
Sept. 13, 1864, James L. Chapman, b. July 13, 1842, Pittsfield,
Mass. Res., Brookline, Mass. +
Child of Mary and August dines, (iij8):
1181 August Glines, m. Ella J. Stetson.
Children of Abraham and Juliette Doolittle (first wife), (1138):
1182 Sarah Pomeroy Doolittle, b. 1835; d. 1861.
1183 John Birge Doolittle, b. 1836; m. Cornelia Parmelee.
Children of Abraham and (2d wife) Catherine Doolittle, (irjS):
1184 Catherine H(X)KEr Doolittle, b. 1843; m. 1866, B. Frank-
Marsh.
1185 James Roland Doolittle, b. 1849; m. in 1875, Emma Irwin.
1186 Mary Anne Pomeroy Doolittle, b. 1852; unm.
Qth gen. Children of James and Emily IV. Wadsworth, (1151):
1187 Robert Strong Wadsworth, b. Nov. 17, 1857; d. July 17, 1864.
1188 Grace Lucretia Wadsworth, b. 1859; d. 1861.
1189 Son, b. and d. 1861.
1190 James Robert Wadsworth, b. Nov. 26, 1863; unm. Tax mat-
ters. Res., Chicago, 111.
1191 Ellen Ruth Wadsworth, b. 1865; d. 1866.
1192 Alice Emily Wadsworth, b. Sept. 7, 1870; graduate. University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor; high school teacher at Evanston, 111.;
unm.
Children of Strong and Maria C. Wadsworth, (1152):
1193 Amy Bird Wadsworth, b. 1866; unm. Res., Yonkers, N. Y.
1194 Richard Charles Wells Wadsworth, b. 1870; m. Alice G. Bene-
dict, dau. of James B. Benedict and wife Sarah Huntington Bab-
cock; d. s. p. Aug. 2, 1905.
Children of Mary A. and James L. Chapman, b. Fitchburg,
Mass., (1180):
1195 Walter Butler Chapman, b. April 13, 1866; d. April 26, 1867,
Fitchburg.
1196 Josephine Wright Chapman, b. Aug. 20, 1867.
1197 George Daniel Chapman, b. Aug. 29, 1870; m. June 1, 1893,
Helen Spencer of Fitchburg, Mass.; s. p.; he d. May 31, 1900,
Fitchburg, Mass.
1198 Louis Raymond Chapman, b. Aug. 21, 1875.
382 ASAHEL POMEROY, {Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Dec. 1, 1749, Northampton; m. (1) Nov. 1, 1776, Miriam Clapp,
b. 1752, d. July 19, 1793; he m. (2) March 12, 1794, Mrs. Han-
nah Whitney, b. 1754, d. Sept. 18, 1812; he m. (3) Feb. 5, 1813,
Susanna Kent Reed (widow), b. 1757, d. June 26, 1826; he was
a prominent and enterprising citizen, active in town affairs; he
d. March 23, 1833.
6th gen. Children:
1199 Polly Pomeroy, b. Jan. 21, 1778; d. July, 1860. unm.
1200 Miriam Pomeroy, bp. July 16, 1780; d. 1864.
1201 Judith Pomeroy, bp. Nov. 9, 1783; d. Jan. 20, 1804.
1202 Lucretia Pomeroy, bp. Jan. 29, 178i5; d. Sept. 22, 1847; unm.
1203 Hannah Pomeroy, bp. Feb. 8, 1795. +
Asahel Pomeroy began keeping public house or inn in 1777, in
the house of his father, which stood on the site of the present Mansion
House, and continued in the hotel business thirty years. He was suc-
ceeded in 1807 by Col. Chapman, and he in 1821, by Hon. Oliver War-
ner. In 1799, Asahel Pomeroy purchased from Seth Wright, the old
Wright homestead, which had been in that family 144 years, and is
designated as No. 1, in Clark's ''Antiquities,*' the Pomeroy homestead
being No. 5. His tavern was the headquarters for travelers and public
business; also, as a resort for pleasure parties, and few men were more
widely known.
Mr. Pomeroy was Selectman for twelve years, chairman of the
school committee, and served four years as Representative in the Gen-
eral Court. The Selectmen of the town in those days were in fact
SELECTMEN ; they were taken from the foremost men of the town.
After he sold his tavern in 1807, and until his death, he kept a private
boarding-house in the house on Main street, near the railroad crossing.
Mr. Edward Warner, who remembered Mr. Asahel Pomeroy, in his
later years, gives the following description of his personal appearance:
"There are but few persons living who can remember the personal appear-
ance of this, one of the most noted citizens of a past generation. He was one
who in any period would have attracted the attention of observers of men.
Belonging to a family noted for public services, of commanding personal ap-
pearance, and a complete type of the men to whom the community looked as an
exemplar of what a prominent citizen should be, it is not wonderful that he
should have impressed his memory upon his younger contemporaries. He is
remembered by the writer as a tall, erect, and dignified man. wearing a blue
coat of the old continental style, with wide lapels and long wide skirts, a long
buff waistcoat, small clothes and fall-top boots, ornamented with tassels, as a
dress and Sunday suit. His hair was dressed in the old style, powdered and
queued. On week days he usually wore shoes with large silver buckles. But
it was in the old church, on Sundays, that his prominent figure was observable,
as he alone rose in his pew at the signal for singing, and turned his face to the
choir, the hymn book in his trembling hands, shaking with the palsy with which
he was afflicted. His whole appearance made a marked impression on all who
for the first time looked upon him. which was never wholly effaced from mem-
ory. Almost to the day of his death he might be seen on his daily visits to the
center, still maintaining his erect carriage and a good share of his natural vigor
and general majestic appearance. He always reminded one of the portraits of
revolutionary characters (and indeed he was adjutant in a regiment of Minute-
men who responded to the frequent alarms in 1777), which now adorn our mag-
azines and picture galleries. It is something worth relating to have seen one
of these historical men, of whom Northampton can claim a generous share."
By his will, in addition to other bequests, he gave to his nephew, John
Pomeroy, father of John Pomeroy of Brecksville, Ohio, a gun made by his father,
Gen. Seth Pomeroy, and to his son-in-law, David S. Whitney, he gave $100 to
be placed on interest for the benefit of church music in the old church.
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363 PLINY POMEROY, (Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed). b.
May 19, 1734, Northampton, only child of Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy
and his first wife, Mary Clapp; he m. Nov. 24, 1757, Sarah Allen,
b. May 11, 1740, dau. of Joseph and Betty Allen, in whose
honor the "Betty Allen Chapter,'* D. A. R., of Northampton, was
named. She was mother of a large family, among the children
being six sons, who served in the Revolution army. Pliny was
a soldier of the Revolution, having six enlistments to his credit,
from May 27, 1775, to the last call in 1782, his last service being
with Major Allen, although the date is not given. He was en-
gaged in the cooperage business, and after living for a time in
Westhampton he removed to Westfield, where he had purchased
property in the meantime, and where he d. Nov. 12, 1804; his
widow d. in 1823.
6th gen. Children:
1204 Plinv Pomerov, b. Sept. 17, 1758. +
1205 CiAius Pomerov, b. July 11. 1760. +
1206 Elish.a Pomerov, b. Oct. 16, 1762; d. May 31, 1763.
1207 Mary Pomerov, b. April 16, 1764. ■+•
1208 Elisha Pomerov, b. Oct. 31, 1766; d. 1767.
1209 Julius Pomerov, b. May 14, 1769; he was slain in the battle with
F*rench and Indians in Ohio at the time of Gen. St. Clair's de-
feat, Nov. 4, 1791.
1210 Sarah Pomerov, b. May 3, 1773; m. Oct. 28, 1792, Stephen Ash-
ley; she d. 1802.
1211 Nancy Pomeroy, b. Oct. 11, 1776; m. Dec. 8, 1795. James Hig-
gins.
1212 Spencer Pomeroy, b. May 14, 1781 ; settled in Manlius, N. Y.
1213 Charlotte Pomeroy, b. 1783. +
1214 Clarissa Pomeroy, b. July 3, 1785, Northampton.
Pliny Pomeroy's first enlistment was as private in Jonathan Allen's com-
pany, April 27, 1775; he enlisted in Capt. Jonathan Wale's company. Dec. 20.
1776; also. Capt. Oliver Lyman's company. April 8, 1779; also, in Capt. Whip-
ple's company, July 17, 17&. He and others of Northampton left camp Jan. 1,
1780. under the impression that their time was up, and on Oct. 17, 1780, they
were reported as deserters by their captain. Later they returned to the army,
a resolve having been passed on June 15, 1780, remitting the penalties for unin-
tentional desertion if the soldiers returned to duty. They again left the service
without permission, but the charge of desertion was an unjust one, and arose
from a misconstruction (or malice) on the part of their officers as to the addi-
tional time they were required to serve; their wages were allowed and made up
for the three years of service by authority of Resolve of April 20, 1781. He
enlisted again on May 6, 1782. in Capt. Ebenezer Strong's company, and again
with Major Allen, for which there is no date.
364 MAJOR DANIEL POMEROY, {Daniel, Ebeneser, Medad, Bit-
weed), b. Northampton, Nov. 3, 1737; m. (1) Sybil Kent of
Suffield, Conn., b. 1741, d. Oct. 12, 1788; m. (2) Jan. 31, 1789,
at Westfield, Mary (Clapp) Emerson, dau. of Ezra Clapp, of
Westfield, Mass., (widow of Elihu Emerson) ; he inherited from
his father, Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy, (slain in the battle of Lake
George), the "Red Tavern" in Northampton, originally Hon.
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Ebenezer Pomeroy's dwelling and fann-liouse. After Major Pome-
rov's decease his widow continued the business, and maintained
the celebrity of the tavern. The site of the Red Tavern is now
occupied by a Catholic church. He d. May 3, 1808, Northampton.
6th gen. Children:
1215 Sophia Pomeroy, bp. May 12. 1763. +
1216 Ralph Moselev Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1767. H-
1217 Ruth Pomeroy, bp. Feb. 12, 1769; m. Sept. 12. 1793, Eli Bush,
of Pittsfield.
1218 Daniel Pomeroy, bp. Oct. 13, 1771. +
1219 Sibyl Pomeroy, b. Jan. 2, 1774: m. Oliver Pomeroy (816) son
of Heman and Esther (Lyman) Pomerov; she d. at Buffalo, X. Y.
1220 Lucy Pomeroy, b. 1783 ;'d. Dec. 4, 1792.
Daniel Pomeroy was a mill owner and at times controlled valuable mill
privileges. In 1742, and for a number of years, there was a bitter controversy
concerning mill privileges, and the owner of the upper mill brought suit against
the town of Northampton, and by mutual consent the question about the height
of the dam was referred to arbitrators in 1786. Five years elapsed before the
question was again opened, and then the town complained that the mill was not
kept in proper condition. In the meantime a change of proprietor^ had taken
place, and in 1791. Capt. Daniel Pomeroy and Moses and Enos Kingsley built
an entirely new dam, put in a new water-wheel, and new grinding and bolting
machinery. When the new dam was completed, the selectmen and proprietors
of the mill placed an iron bar in the rock, thirty-six feet above it. by which to
mark the height of the dam. This ended the controversy. — Trumbull's History
of Northampton.
In 1778-9 difficulty was met by the county of Hampshire in raising the quota
required for service in the war. and Capt. Daniel Pomeroy became active and
successful in filling the ranks, and in June, 1778. a requisition for 199 men was
filled. One company under Capt. Daniel Pomeroy, from Northampton and
vicinity, went to Albany for service. Their names are not mentioned, but they
joined the division under Gen. Stark. In May the selectmen paid the town
treasurer £153, part of the bounty money raised under the tax of £1300. Of
this sum £90 was paid to Daniel Pomeroy. In 1780 the last call for three-
years* men to serve in the Revolution was not promptly raised, the quota for
Northampton being nine, and the General Court ordered the delinquent classes
to be assessed £518 12s 8d. the average cost of raising a man. Major Daniel
Pomeroy was chairman of class No. 5. his territory embracing part of Main and
Elm streets.
385 ABIGAIL POMEROY, (Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad. Eltweed), b.
Sept. 19, 1739, at Northampton, Mass. ; m. Dec. 22, 1763, Enos
Kingsley, b. 1740, at Southampton, Mass., d. 1821, at Northamp-
ton; she d. there 1821.
6th gen. Children, b. at Northampton:
1221 LucRETiA Kingsley, b. 1764; m. in 1789, Levi Lyman, b. Jan.
30, 1763, son of William and Jemima Lyman. Cashier of the
Hampshire County Bank; chairman of the Northampton Board
of Selectmen; chairman of the County Commissioners; Registrar
of Deeds. 1796 to 1811 and from 1821 to his death. +
1222 Abigail Kingsley, b. 1766; m. in 1791, Joseph Hunt Breck. +
1223 Esther Kingsley, b. 1768; m. in 1790, Joseph Parsons.
1224 Enos Kingsley, b 1770.
1225 AsENATH Kingsley, b. 1772; m. Nov. 15, 1796, Jacob Wicker, b.
Hfiftif (6tmrutiau - HUilail
Feb. 20, 1773, Hardwick, Mass., d. Sept. 15, 1844, Lockport, N.
Y. ; (Jacob Wicker, 1st, his grandfather, was a soldier of the
Revolution) ; she d. there May 18, 1856. -f
1226 Sarah Ki.vgslev. b. 1775; m. in 1800, Seth Pomeroy, (%5) son
of Quartus and Rachel Pomeroy, b. June 30, 1777; she d. Aug.
10, 1831.
1227 Rachel Kincsley, b. 1777; m. in 1804, Levi Field.
1228 Jemima Kingslev, b. 1780; m. 1798, Isaac Gore.
1229 Ann Kincsley, b. 1782; m. in 1807, Theodore Parsons.
1230 SoPHLx KiNGSLEY, b. 1784; m. 1818, Theodore Parsons, (who had
previously m. her sister Ann).
/til gen. Children of Lucretia and Levi Lyman, (1221):
1231 Robert Lyman, b. April 5, 1790; d. Oct. 10, 1820. Lieut, in U.
S. Navy.
1232 William \V. C. Lyman, b. March 10, 1792; d. near Xew Orleans.
1233 Charles Lyman, d. in Georgia, ae. 25.
1234 Clarissa Lyman; m. Oct. 30, 1821, William Richards, missionary
to Sandwich Islands 20 years; returned and d. at New Haven,
Conn., 1^'61 ; she d. June 10, 1794.
1235 Lucretia Lyman, b. Sept. 1, 1795; d. March 31, 1807.
1236 Elizabeth Lyman ; m. Aug. 19, 1799, George A. Clark of North-
ampton ; d. 1852.
1237 John Lyman, b. July 31, 1801; d. Oct. 4, 1802.
Ch'dd of Abigail and Joseph H, Breck, (1222):
1238 Rachel Breck. b. June 6, 1792: m. Jan. 20, 1819, George Hooker,
M. D., b. March 17, 1793, son of John Hooker and Sarah Dwight;
Yale, 1814.
Children of Asenath and Jacob Wicker, (1225):
1239 William Wicker, b. Jan. 2, 1799; m. Julv 5, 1821, Orilla Bying-
ton; d. .^ept. 29, 1873.
1240 Sally Wicker, b. Feb. 28, 1802.
1241 Maria Wicker, b. Mav 12, 1804; m. April 29, 1827, John Dean
Perigo; d. May 7, 1878.
1242 Georce Franklin Wicker, b. Feb. 1, 1800; m. March 6, 1821,
Jerusha Smith ; d. Dec. 3, 1837.
1243 Lawrence S. Wicker, b. Jan. 6, 1806; m. Sept 28, 1829, Eliza
M. Thompson ; d. June 28, 1847.
1244 Asenath Wicker, b. Nov. 23, 1808; m. June 15, 1829, Isaac
Hitchcock Perigo. of Middlebury, Vt., b. Sept. 10, 1807, Fort
Ticonderoga, N. Y., d. Oct. 25, 1875, Lockport, N. Y. ; she d.
Sept. 1, 1872, Hudson, III. All of these Wicker children were b.
at Northampton, Mass. +
8th gen. Children of Asenath and Isaac H. Perigo, (1244):
1245 Julia Maria Perigo, b. March 8, 1830; m. Albert H. South-
worth; d. Aug. 30, 1888.
1246 John Dean Perigo, b. Sept. 21, 1832; d. March 22, 1834.
1247 John Franklin Perigo, b. Jan. 25, 1835; d. April 8, 1842.
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1248 Charles Herbert Perigo, b. Oct. 1, 1841 ; m. May 3, 1864, Min-
nie Crompton; d. Jan. 31, 1907.
1249 George Woodruff Perigo. b. Sept. 18, 1843; m. Nov. 27, 1866,
Emma Birdsall ; d. Feb. 4, 1892.
1250 Emily Asenath Perigo. b. Jan. 15, 1836, at Gouverneur, N. Y. ;
m. Jan. 6, 1856, Alonzo John \'an Duzee, b. Jan. 6, 1834, Gou-
verneur; she d. April 7, 18i55, Dubuque. Iowa. +
Qth gen. Child of Emily A, and Alon::o Van Dusce, (1250):
1251 Mary Asenath Van Duzee, b. Dec. 3, 1860, Dubuque. Iowa; m.
Sept. 29. 1887, Isaac Storer Bigelow, M.D., b. Jan. 27, 1858, son
of Israel Storer Bigelow and Margaret Bughman of Adams-
burg, Pa. +
loth gen. Child of Mary A. and Dr. Isaac S. Bigelozv, fi2§r):
1252 Emily Bigelow, b. April 29, 1890, Dubuque, Iowa. Res., Du-
buque.
367 TIMOTHY POMEROY, (Daniel, Ebenezcr, Medad, Eltiveed), b.
April 16, 1742, Northampton; m. June 8, 1766, Ann Ashley, b.
1747, VVestfield. Mass.. d. Aug. 9. 1831, Marcellus. N. Y., dau.
of Ebenezer Ashley and Thankful Parsons; he d. Nov. 8, 1802.
He was a soldier of the Revolution, corporal of Capt. John Kirk-
land*s company, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's regt. ; engaged Aug.
16. 1777; discharged Nov. 29, 1777; service 3 mos., 22 days, in-
cluding 8 days (160 miles) travel home; regiment raised to rein-
force Continental Army at the Northward.
6th gen. Children:
1253 Rev. Francis Pomerov, b. June 7, 1767. +
1254 Timothy Pomeroy, b. Nov. 13, 1768; settled in Canada.
1255 Ellen Ashley Pomeroy, b. May 26, 1771; d. May 13, 1792.
1256 Anna Pomeroy, bp. Feb. 14, 1773. +
1257 Oliver Pomeroy, b. July 23, 1775; m. Miss Lusk of Westmin-
ster, Vt.
1258 Susannah Pomeroy. b. 1777. +
1259 Thankful Pomeroy, b. April 25, 1779. +
1260 Louisa Pomeroy, b. Aug. 12, 1781 ; d. Oct. 20, 1860.
369 JERUSHA pomeroy, {Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed), b.
March 7, 1746, Northampton; m. Oct. 13, 1767, Capt. Adnah
Sackett of Westfield, Mass., b. Dec 5, 1745, d. April 28, 1813,
Westfield, son of Isaac Sackett and Elizabeth Shepard; he was
First- Lieut, of 7th company, 3d Hampshire regt., (Lt.-Col. John
Moseley), engaging April 26, 1776; his name appears among a
list of officers chosen at that time; he kept the Inn at Westfield;
Jerusha d. Dec. 10, 1789; he m. (2) Oct. 13, 1790, Mary Bush,
who d. April 20, 1791; he m. (3) Mrs. Dorothy Fernard, Aug.
14, 1791, of Southwick, Mass.
A warrant dated Feb. 21, 1777, signed by Henry Gardner, Treas.
of the State of Mass. Bay, orders Adnah Sackett, as constable or
collector of Westfield to collect taxes to the amount of £239 18s
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before the 1st of the following May. He owned a large farm, and
took horses to Hartford and sold them. The Park Square in West-
field is now the ground where he kept his Green Inn, the location
having, previous to his filling it up, been a frog-pond. His grand-
children called him Captain, and it is probable that he was in the
Revolution in later campaigns than that of the spring of 1776, when
he was chosen First Lieutenant.
6th gen. Children, b, at IV est field, Mass.:
1261 JERUSHA Sackett, b. May 27, 1769; m. Abel Avery of "The
Farms," in the northern part of Westfield, Mass.
1262 John Sackett, b. June 27, 1771; m. Oct. 23, 1793, Lucinda
Moseley, dau. of Israel Moseley* and Abigail Chapin; she d.
April 23, 1855; he d. Dec. 10, 1851. Israel Moseley gr. Yale,
1766; served in the Revolution, in 7th company, 3d Hampshire
county regt., 1777. He w^as a double first cousin of Rachel Mose-
ley who m. Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy. +
1263 Charlotte Sackett, b. May 27, 1773; m. a Mr. Browning. Re-
sided at W'hitestone, near Utica, N. Y.
1264 Isaac Sackett, b. 1777; d. 1797.
1265 George Sackett.
1266 Israel Sackett.
1267 Olive Sackett, m. David Ives of Southwick, Mass. +
1268 Lydia Sackett, m. Walter Bush.
7th gen. Children of John and Lucinda Sackett, (1262):
1269 Eliza Sackett, b. Aug. 25, 1794; m. Dec. 15, 1816, Homer Pres-
ton, son of Capt. John Preston and Eunice Moody. Besides his
father, Homer Preston had two other patriotic ancestors, Lieut.
John Preston of Granby, a soldier of the Revolution, and John
Preston of Hadley, Mass., who served through King Philip's War
and was present at the "Swamp Fight." Homer Preston was an
architect, and a contractor and builder. He constructed several
churches including two in Brooklyn, N. Y., and superintended
the building of the Rapelyea Mansion in that city. Of their six
children, Janette Preston, b. June 15, 1826, m. Dec. 31, 1843, Par-
don Waterman Kenvon, son of David Kenvon and Hannah Ken-
yon, both lineal descendants of John Kenyon, freeholder of
Kingston, R. I., 1687. Miss Amy C. Kenyon of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
was the first bom of their nine children. She has furnished the
data for the family of Jerusha Pomeroy Sackett. Eliza Sackett
d. April 27, 1864.
*Israel Moseley was graduated from Yale, 1766; in the Revolution, he served
in the 7th company, 3d Hampshire county regiment, 1777. He was a double 1st
cousin once removed of Rachel Moseley who married Lieut. Daniel Pomeroy.
Lieut. John Moseley, one of the ''Foundation Men" of the First Church in West-
field, was ancestor of both Israel and Rachel Moseley, as were Quartermaster
George Cotton, Lieut. Thomas Cooper of Springfield, and Major Benjamin New-
berry of Connecticut. They all took part in King Philip's war, and Lieut.
Cooper was slain in the attack on Springfield in 1775. Major Newberry was in
command of all the Connecticut troops.
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1270 Adnaii Sackett, b. Oct. 6, 1796: m. March 5. 1818, Ann Short,
who d. June 1, 1823: he m. (2) May 2. 1824. Eliza Hubbard
Adams, who d. Aug. 14, 1847; he m. (3) June 5, 1848. Miranda
Keach, who d. Oct. 10. 1S55: he m. (4) 'May 20, 1856. Xancy
Blake Parks. He was engaged in the manufacture of jewelry,
using improved machinery. He was a Democrat and the nom-
inee of his party for the office of Mayor of Providence. R. I.,
and Governor of Rhode f.^^land. He filled many respoi.siblc inib-
lic offices, and was successful in business.
1271 Isaac Sackett, b. Xov. 20, 1798: m. Dec. 29. 1822. Mary John-
son, dau. of John Johnson and Mary I-yon : she d. 1869; he m.
(2) 1872, Mrs. Ella (Gage) Taylor, dau. of John Gage and
Bcthania Randall. He was a manufacturer and dealer in furni-
ture, in Providence. R. I., and Brooklyn. X. Y.. the firm name
being Sackett & Branch. It is notable that his third child. George
H. Sackett. was fifty years old when his youngest, Pomeroy
Sackett, was born.
1272 John Pomeroy Sackett. b. Jan. 30. 1801: d. July 3. 1822.
1273 Jefferson Moselev Sackett* b. Aug. 21. 1803*: d. July 31. 1804.
1274 Abigail H. Sackett, b. March 14. 1806; m. in 1830. Charles J.
Cleveland: she d. March 20. 18.^0.
1275 LsRAEL Sackett. b. March 30. 1809: m. March 20. 1832. Margaret
Jane Allen, b. 1812. d. 1886, dau. of David Allen and Susan
Little. He was engaged in the printing business: i)ublished the
Schenectady and Saratoga Standard, 1832-1833.
1276 Llcinda Sackett. b. Xov. 2?, 1811 : m. Feb. 2S, 1833. Thomas Hale
Parker, b. 1808, d. 1831. son of Amos Parker and Annie Steb-
bins Hale.
Child of Olive and David Ives, (126/J:
1277 David Ives.
370 WILLIAM POMICROY, (Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltzveed),
b. May 8, 1750, Northampton; m. 1777, Eleanor Root, b. Oct. 31,
1755, dau. of Joseph Root: he d. March 8. 1807; she m. (2)
1809. Dea. William Colton. of Long Meadow, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
1278 Nancv Pomerov, b. Julv 11, 1780. +
1279 Eleanor Po.meroy, b' Oct. 6. 1782; d. June 12, 1799.
1280 Child, b. Sept. 15, 1784; d. soon.
1281 Henry Pomeroy, bp. March 26. 1786. +
1282 William Pomeroy, b. Sept. 21. 1788; d. 1828.
1283 James Pomeroy, b. Xov. 4, 1790, Northampton. +
1284 CoL. Thomas Pomeroy, b. Dec. 2, 1792. +
1285 Louis Pomeroy, b. Julv 5, 1795; d. Aug. 16, 1796.
1286 Daniel Pomeroy, b. March 28, 1798. -I-
371 ELEANOR POMEROY, {Daniel, Ebenezer, \fedad, Elnveed),
h, Oct. 20, 1752, Northampton, Mass.: m. Aug. 12, 1771, Noble
Dewey of Wcstfield. Mass., b. June 15, 1752, d. Dec. 23, 1830,
son of Deacon Israel Dewey and Joanna Noble. Resided at West-
field, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
1287 Electa Dewey, b. Nov. 16, 1772; m. Jan. 8, 1796, Oliver Bush,
b. Aug. 13, 1770, at Westfield, son of Zachariah Bush and Mary
Filley.
1288 Eunice Dewey, b. 1776; unm.; d. July 8, 1829, Stockbridge, Mass.
In her will she gave her estate to four sisters, her aged father
to have support for life out of it.
1289 LucRETiA Dewey, b. 1779; unm.; d. Sept. 4, 1849, Springfield,
Alass.
1290 Mary Dewey, b. July 25. 1785; m. about 1802, Seth Judson of
VVoodbridge. Conn., b. about 1780, d. 1855; she d. June 3, 1858.
1291 Eleanor Dewey, b. 1787; unm.; d. March 25, 1834; she willed
$1,500 to her cousin, Mrs. Nancy Bates, and the remainder of
her property to her nieces and nephews, the Jewett children.
1292 Son Dewey, b. Nov.. 1788; d. April 22. 1789.
1293 George Dewey, b. 1790; m. Sept. 10. 1815, Sabra Johnson, dau. of
Azariah Johnson; she d. March 8, 1852. On Aug. 25, 1863,
Sarah E. Upson was appointed administratrix of his estate. Mer-
chant at Springfield, Mass.
1294 Lucy Dewey, b. 1793; m. Dec. 1, 1812, at Northampton, Enoch
Jewett, b. Feb. 28, 1791, Northampton, d. Sept. 15. 1872, son of
Timothy Jewett and wife Elizabeth Phelps; she d. April 5, 1869,
at Brecksville, Ohio. He was a wood turner and farmer. Re-
sided at Brecksville, Ohio. +
7//1 gat. Children of Lucv and Enoch Jczvctt, b. Northampton,
(r2Q4):
1295 Henry Jewett, b. Aug. 5, 1814; m. Oct. 9, 1837, Mary French,
b. May 24, 1816, d. Feb. 23, 1875, Grand Rapids, Mich., dau. of
Jabez French and wife Lucinda Walton; he d. Aug. 30, 1886, at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
1206 Is.\Ri:ixA Griswold Jewett, b. Dec. 29, 1819; d. Nov. 27, 1888,
at Westhampton, Mass.
1297 Francis Jewett, b. Aug. 17, 1822; d. Oct. 14, 1840.
1298 Albert Gallatin Jewett, b. May 24. 1825; m. Jan. 29, 1850,
\'aleria Augusta Loud, b. Nov. 29, 1829, Westhampton, d. there
Nov. 29, 1903, dau. of Capt. Francis Loud and wife Paulina
Parsons. Carpenter and joiner. Res., Northampton, Mass.
1299 Edward Jewett, b. Jan. 2, 1828; m. about 1856, Sarah Ward;
he d. March 18, 1899, at Milwaukee, Wis.
Three Jewett children d. in infancy.
403 ELIZABETH POMEROY, {Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Feb. 20, 1720, Suffield, Conn.; m. Sept. 14, 1743, Samuel Norton,
b. Oct. 26, 1718, d. May 14, 1757, Suffield, Conn., son of Free-
grace Norton, (George, George), and Sarah Martin; she d. June
28, 1813, New Marlborough, Mass.
(SntralosQ of ti^e Pomrroii J^amilQ 22B
6th gen. Children, all b. Ne^u Marlborough, Mass.:
1300 Eunice Norton, b. Aug. 20. 1746: m. Jonas King; she d. in
Chatham, X. Y. +
1301 Samuel Norton, I>. Iiine 3, 1748: m. Feb. 27, 1772, Elizabeth
Taylor, b. 1752, d. ISil; he d. April 20, 1827. +
1302 Sarah Norton, b. Jiilv 25, 1750; m. Asa Harmon. +
1303 Seth Norton, b. April 1, 1753; m. Mary Blackmer, who d. Sept.
2, 1785; he m. (2) Candace , who d. July 31, 1790; he d.
Tune 15, 1834. +
•
1304 Phineas Pomerov Norton, b. June 18, 1757; m. Eunice Sheldon,
who d. March 2, 1824; he d. Feb. 3, 1844. -I-
7th gen. Children of Eunice and Jonas King, (ijoo):
1305 Candace King, b. 1766.
1306 Amos King, b. 1760.
1307 Jeiiiel King, b. 1773, d. soon.
1308 Jehiel King, b. 1774.
1309 Reuben King, b. 1776.
1310 Moses King, b. 1779.
1311 Eunice King, b. March 11, 1782.
1312 Betsey King, b. 1785.
1313 Luther King, b. 1790.
Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Norton, (ijoi):
1314 Samuel Norton, b. 1772; d. 1845.
1315 Isaac Norton, b. 1774; d. 1857.
1316 Elisha Norton, b. 1776: d. 1794.
1317 Elizabeth Norton, b. 1777; d. 1818.
1318 AvicE Norton, b. 1781 ; d. 1855.
1319 Harvey Norton, b. 1785; d. 1857.
1320 Joel Norton, b. Mav 18, 1787; d. Tune 30. 1841.
1321 David Norton, b. Mav 3, 1791 ; d. Tan. 2, 1860.
1322 Mark Norton, b. April 4, 1792; d. Oct. 13, 1865.
Children of Sarah and Asa Harmon, (1302):
1323 Deacon Luke Harmon. Also, three daughters whose names are
not ascertained.
Children of Seth and Mary Norton, (1303):
1324 Seth Norton, d. soon.
1325 Seth Norton, Jr.
Children of Phineas P. and Eunice Norton, (1304):
1326 Ruth Norton, b. 1777.
1327 Daniel Norton, b. 1780.
1328 Belinda Norton, b. 1786; m. Warren N. Adams.
1329 Eunice Norton, b. 1790.
404 HANNAH POMEROY, {Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltzueed), b.
June 6, 1721, Suffield, Conn. : m. Dec. 20, 1739, Jacob Austin, b.
1705, d. Aug. 28, 1773, at Suffield.
jTiftir
-mrHail
6th gen. Children:
1330 Jacob Austin, b. April 12, 1740.
1331 Eli AS Austin, b. Nov. 22, 1741.
1332 Elijah Austin, b. Feb. 28, 1744.
1333 Hannah Austin, b. March 1, 1747.
1334 Phinehas Austin, b. March 1, 1747; (twin with Hannah).
1335 Abia Austin, b. Oct. 10, 1749.
405 EXPERIENCE POMEROY, (Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. June 19, 1723, Suffield, Conn.; m. May 12, 1744, Capt. Huet
Root, b. July 6, 1724, Westfield, Mass., d. 1788, Great Harrington,
Mass.; will dated Feb. 8, 1788, proved April 3, 1788; she d. June
18, 1777. Res., Great Barrington.
6th gen. Children:
1336 Daniel Root, b. Dec. 20, 1744; d. in infancy.
1337 Thankful Root, b. Jan. 20, 1746; ni. Cornelius Hull.
1338 James Root, b. Aug. 25, 1747; m. Nannie Rob, who d. after 1772;
he m. (2) Widow Olds, sister to his 1st wife, by whom he had a num-
ber of children who settled in Ohio. -I-
1339 Experience Root, b. Jan. 14, 1749; d. in infancy.
1340 John Root, bp. Aug. 4, 1754.
1341 Mercy Root, bp. May 8, 1755.
1342 Elijah Root, bp. June 6, 1756.
1343 Huet Root, bp. Nov. 6, 1763.
1344 Rhoda Root, b. about 1765.
1345 Lydia Root, bp. April 3, 1768; m. 1789, William Picksley, Jr.
7th gen. Children of James and Nannie Root, (1338):
1338.1 William Root. 1338.2 Stephen Root.
1338.3 Elihu Root, b. 1772, Great Barrington, Mass. He went with his
brother William to the town of Vernon, Herkimer County, (now
Oneida County), N. Y. There, in 1797, they bought adjoining farms
from lands formerly belonging to the Oneida Indians, and sold in
that year by the State. In 1798 Eliiui sold to Thomas Ives the land
in Great Barrington bequeathed to him by his grandfather, Huet
Root On March 1, 1800, he m. Achsa Pomeroy. (See 1638.)
406 JERUSHA POMEROY, {Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Aug. 14, 1725, Suffield, Conn.; m. Nov. 17, 1753, Ebenezer Selden,
(Ebenezer, Thomas, Thomas), b. May 17, 1720, Hadley, Mass.; he
m. (2) Jan. 3, 1769, Mary Olcott; he m. (3) Jan. 23, 1787, Mrs.
Mary Ellis Mack, widow of Col. David Mack; removed to Middle-
field, Mass. ; d. May 18, 1807 ; Jerusha Pomeroy Selden d. about 1767.
Settled at Agawam, Mass., 1754.
6th gen. Child:
1345.1 Jerusha Selden, b. Sept. 19, 1756, West Springfield, Mass.; m.
Jan. 12, 1775, Jehiel Hamlin, b. Oct. 2, 1751, Sharon, Conn., d.
April 26, 1840, son of Isaac Hamlin and Mary Gibbs. At the time
of his marriage he was called of Kinderhook, N. Y. ; his homestead
(Sntralogg of ti^t Pomrrog J^amttg 230
at West Springfield is owned by his grand-daughter, Mrs. Jane
Allen ; Jerusha d. June 14, 1843, West Springfield. +
//A gen. Children of Jerusha and Jehiel Hamlin, (1345. i), bp.
Agawam:
1345.2 Betsey Hamlin, b. Dec. 30, 1775: d. Dec. 12, 1848; unm.
1345.3 Ebenezer S. Hamlin, b. April 9, 1778; m. March 15, 1801, West
Springfield, Sophia Dewey, b. Sept. 14, 1782; removed to West
Bloomfield, where he d. Jan. 9, 1831. Their children, (8th gen.)
were: Herman, James Dewey, Betsey Pomeroy, Caroline Sophia,
Samuel Selden, John Ebenezer.
1345.4 Jerusha Hamlin, b. March 16, 1780; m. May 22, 1803, Kelsey
Day, b. Sept. 12, 1776, West Springfield, d. there May 15, 1843; she
d. Oct. 8, 1857, West Springfield. Their children, (8th gen.; were:
Lydia K., Eliza, Asher Hamlin, Laura Ann, Ebenezer Selden, Loren.
1345.5 Electa Hamlin, b. April 26, 1782; d. Nov. 12, 1785.
1345.6 Asher Pomeroy Hamlin, b. June 8, 1784; d. Aug. 11, 1858; unm.
1345.7 Electa Hamlin, b. March 22, 1787; m. Nov. 10, 1810, Hcber
Miller, b. March 16, 1782, d. 1872. West Springfield; she d. Jan.
29, 1875. Their children (8th gen.) were: Delia Anne, Lucy Leonard,
Caroline Morley, Julia, Jerusha Pomeroy.
1345.8 Jesse Hamlin, b. April 27, 1791 ; m. and resided at Rockford, 111.;
d. there April, 1875. Two children.
1345.9 Lester Hamlin, b. June 14, 1797; m. Jan. 31, 1822, Lucv Hubbard,
b. Feb. 5, 1796, Haddam, Conn., d. Jan. 18, 1884; he d. May 13,
1875, Agawam, He inherited the homestead at West Springfield,
which his dau. Jane Allen now owns. Their children (8th gen.)
were Jane Allen, Frances Elizabeth, Ebenezer Pomeroy,
- W7 MEDAD POMEROY, {Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Dec. 17, 1730, Suffield; m. (1) Aug. 18, 1757. Eunice Southwell,
d. April 6, 1760; m. (2) July 8, 1761, Phebe Kent, b. Nov. 12,
1735, d. Jan. 25, 1762; m. (3) Dec. 4, 1764, Mary Willcocks. who
d. July 7, 1821, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jerusha
Spring, in Granby, Conn. ; his first two wives d. in Suffield, and
he built a stone wall around the West Suffield cemetery in 1774.
In 1780 he removed to Northampton. He was a soldier of the
French and Indian wars and in the Revolution from Connecticut.
He d. 1801.
6th gen. Children, b. in Suffield except Rufus and Anne, b, in
Northampton:
-1346 Medad Pomeroy, b. Oct. 18, 1758. +
1347 Eunice Pomeroy, b. March 26, 1760; m. Libeus Stannard. b.
Dec. 7, 1756, son of John Stannard and Hannah Hanchett; she d.
1833.
Child by 2d zmfe:
1348 Phebus Pomeroy, b. Jan. 6, 1762. -H
Children b^ 3d wife:
1349 Sylvanus Pomeroy, b. June 3, 1765. +
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1350 David Pomeroy. b. March 28, 1767. +
1351 Aaron Pomeroy, b. March 11, 1769; drowned in 1785.
1352 Mary P<)MEroy, b. April 4. 1771; m. July 5, 1792, Freeman Tay-
lor of Xorthampton, Mass.
* 1353 Mo.nEs Pomeroy, b. Oct. 2. 1773. +
1354 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. Feb. 5, 1776. +
1355 Hannah Pomeroy. b. 1778; d. Sept. 11, 1864, Granby, Conn.;
unm.
1356 RuFus Pomeroy, b. Dec. 24, 1780, Xorthampton. +
1357 Anne Pomeroy, b. Xov. 10, 1784. +
408 SETH POMEROY. {Medad. Joseph, Medad, Bltweed), h. Dec.
14, 1732, Surtield, Conn.: m. Dec. 20. 1755, Clemensa Wadsworth.
6th gen. Children, b. in Sitffield:
1358 Samuel Wadsworth F*omeroy. b. March 27, 1756.
1359 Seth Pomeroy. b. Oct. 4, 1757.
1360 Elisha Pomeroy, b. Aug. 7. 1763. -^-
1361 Mary Po.meroy, b. Sept. 21, 1769.
1362 Lucy Pomeroy, b. Jan. 26, 1777.
1363 Benjamin Pomeroy, b. July 30, 1779.
409 PHIXEHAS POMEROY, {Medad Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
April 7, 1738, Suffield, Conn.; m. July 8, 1756, Thankful Smith,
dau. of Xathan Smith. He served in the French and Indian
wars while a resident of Suffield, Conn. ; removed to New Marl-
borough, Mass., about 1768, to which place he is credited as a
soldier of the Revolution. He joined Capt. Noah Allen's com-
pany, Col. Asa W'hitcomb's regiment, X^ov. 25, 1775, served at
Ticonderoga and was discharged Oct. 19, 1776; also, Capt. King's
company, Col. Benjamin Simond's detachment of Berkshire county
militia, on Dec. 6, 1776, enlistment to expire March 15, 1777;
also in the same regiment was his son Phinehas, until March 24,
1777; he again enlisted July 21, 1777, private in Capt. Zenas
\Vheeler*s company. Col. John Ashley's Berkshire county regi-
ment, and was discharged Aug. 15, 1777, service being at Fort
Edward, Xew York; also. Sergeant of Capt. Jeremiah Hickok's
1^ company, Lieut.-Col. Sears's regiment, from Aug. 6, 1781, to
Xov. 8. 1781; this regiment was raised in Berkshire county, to
serve three months, the roll being indorsed **Col. Elisha Porter's
Regiment.'' He d. at West Stockbridge, Mass., Dec. 3, 1802.
6th gen. Children:
1364 Phinehas Pomeroy, b. Sept. 4, 1757. +
1365 Pelatiah Pomeroy, b. April 2, 1759. +
1366 Simeon Pomeroy, b. July 1, 1761. +
1367 Grove Po.merov, b. March 13, 1763. +
1368 Joel Pomeroy, b. Dec. 7, 1764. +
1369 Ebenezer Po.meroy, b. Jan. 31, 1769. +
1370 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. Feb. 25, 1771. +
1371 Oliver Pomeroy, b. March 6, 1773; d. April 2, 1779.
1372 Mary Pomeroy, b. Feb. 12, 1775; m. Mr. Undecker.
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1373 Thankful Lucy Pomeroy, b. Sept 14, 1776; m. Mr. Cheney.
1374 VV'arham Pomeroy, b. June 1, 1778; d. young.
1375 Oliver Pomeroy, b. March 6, 1780. -I-
1376 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. March 9, 1783. +
423 THANKFUL POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph, Mcdad, Eltweed),
b. July 23, 1728, in Suffield, Conn.; m. 1749, Capt. Asa Sheldon,
son of Jonathan and Mary Southwell, b. 1722, d. Nov. 15, 1810;
they removed from Suffield to New Marlborough, Mass. ; she
d. Nov. 25, 1813. He served in the war of the Revolution.
6th gen. Children:
1377 Capt. Asa Sheldox, b. June 15, 1750; m. Rhoda Catlin, b. March
6, 1761, d. Nov. 20, 1810; he d. Jan. 24, 1826. Res., Xew Marl-
borough, Mass. +
1378 Eleazer Sheldon*, b. 1752; m. in 1782, Asenath Butler, b. Oct.
6, 1758, d. Jan. 16, 1839; he d. May 11, 1806. Resided in New
Marlborough, Mass. -i-
1379 Thankful Sheldon, b. 1754; d. 1772.
1380 Dorcas Sheldon, b. 1756; m. Jehiel Harmon, b. 1754. d. Aug. 11,
1822; she d. Feb. 11, 1852. Resided in Kingsville, Ohio. +
1381 Tryphena Sheldon, b. 1758; m. 1790, Amos Chapin, Sr., (his
second wife), b. 1752, d. Nov. 15, 1832; she d Resided in
New Marlborough. +
1382 Eunice Sheldon, b. Mav 26, 1761 : m. Nov. 25, 1776, Phineas
Norton, b. Jan. 25, 1757, d. Feb. 23, 1844; she d. March 2, 1824. +
1383 Ebenezer Sheldon, b. Sept. 6, 1768; m. Feb. 25, 1794, Anna
Harmon, b. Oct. 20, 1770, d. April 20, 1847; he d. April 27,
1858. +
1384 Thankful Sheldon, b. 1770; m. Luther Wright. Resided in
Pompey, N. Y. +
7th gen. Children of Capt. Asa and Rhoda Sheldon, (1377):
1385 Harriet Sheldon, b. Dec. 24, 1791; m. Reuben Harmon, b. 1788;
she d. June, 1849. Res., Kingsville, Ohio.
1386 Harry Sheldon, b. Feb. 10, 1795; m. Lydia Manley, b. in 1800,
d. Dec. 20, 1865 ; he d. Nov. 27, 1864. Resided in Azatlan, Wis.
1387 Fanny Sheldon, b. Feb. 10, 1796; m. Dec. 23. 1836, Urbane
Parsons, b. Dec. 20, 1801. Resided in Marshall, Wis.
1388 Thankful Sheldon, b. May 15, 1798; d. May 29, 1801.
1389 Norman Sheldon, b. May 1, 1800; m. July 7, 1834, Elizabeth
Curtis, b. Oct. 1, 1810, d. June 1, 1886; he d. Aug. 15, 1855. Re-
sided in Perry, N. Y.
1390 Asa Catlin Sheldon, b. Feb. 22, 1803; m. June 17, 1830, Eunice
Fargo, b. June 25, 1801, d. Nov. 1, 1874; he d. March 28, 1881.
Resided in Dixon, 111.
Children of Eleazer and Asenath Sheldon, (1378):
1391 Joseph Pomeroy Sheldon, b. April 27, 1783; nru Dec. 15, 1807,
Sally Sheldon, (dau. of Seth), b. Sept. 22, 1786, d. Aug. 13, 1854;
he d. Oct. 29, 1862. Resided in New Marlborough, and Mt. Mor-
ris, N. Y.
9fftii dtntmtian - HUHaii
1392 Rebecca Sheldon, b. Jan. 3, 1785; m. July 22, 1805, Amos
Chapin, Jr., b. May 5, 1782, d. April 11, 1872; she d. Dec. 24,
1879; 15 children. Resided in Lenox, Ohio.
1393 Nathan Sheldon, b. Oct. 23, 1786; m. 1823, Anna Lyman, b.
I May 18, 1797, d. May 8, 1878; he d. Jan. 16, 1852; 5 children.
Resided in New Marlborough.
1394 Oren Sheldon, b. June 5, 1788; m. 1810, Sally Taylor, b. Feb.
10, 1792, d. Nov. 16, 1876; he d. April 1, 1868; 9 children. Re-
sided in Moscow, N. Y.
1395 Roxanna Sheldon, b. June 29, 1790; m. Dec. 31, 1811, Luke
Harmon, b. Nov. 2, 1785, d. Sept. 8, 1862; she d. March 13, 1881;
3 children. Resided in New Marlborough.
1396 Eleazer Sheldon, b. May 15, 1792; m. April 15, 1819, Laura
Austin, b. April 9, 1788, d. March 21, 1884; he d. Feb. 2. 1878;
3 children. Resided, Perry, N. Y. "I"
1397 Horace Sheldon, b. Sept. 13, 1794; m. Aug. 23, 1816, Philena
Ward, b. Jan 10. 1797, d. Oct. 24, 1878; he d. Jan. 6, 1874; 7
children. Resided in Perry, N. Y.
1398 AsENATH Sheldon, b. July 28, 1796; m. March 1, 1815, Rufus
Clark, b. June 19, 1789, d. Nov. 6, 1848; she d. Dec. 17, 1881; 5
1 children. Resided in Deerfield.
1399 Merrick Sheldon, b. Dec. 17, 1798; m. 1827, Mary Sheldon
(dau. of John), b. June 1, 1801, d. Dec. 21, 1870; he d. May 12,
1855; 2 children. Resided in New Marlborough, Mass.
Children of Dorcas and Jehiel Harmon, (ij8o):
1400 Jehiel Harmon, b. 1780; m. Experience
1401 Aaron Harmon, b. July 28, 1781; m. (1) Temperance Fargo; m.
(2) Abigail Tyler.
1402 DoRc.\s Harmon, b. March 15, 1785; m. John Woodruff, b. Aug.
2, 1784, (1. March 29, 1851; she d. Jan. 23, 1873. Resided in
Wolcott, X. Y.
1403 Thankful Harmon, b. 1786; m. Edon Riggs. Resided in Canaan,
Conn.
1404 Reuben H.xrmon, b. 1788; m. Harriet Sheldon, b. Dec. 24, 1791.
d. June, 1849: he d. Feb. 14, 1847. Resided in Kingsville. Ohio.
I 1405 Amos Harmon, b. July 25, 1791; m. May 23, 1811, Lydia Shaw,
b. 1793, d. March 26, 1867; he d. Feb. 6, 1872. Resided in Lenox,
Ohio.
1406 Hiram Harmon, b. Dec. 11, 1794; m. May 16, 1822, Cynthia
Manley, b. Dec. 10, 1797, d. Jan. 11, 1884: he d. Feb. 9, 1851. Re-
sided in Saybrook, Ohio.
1407 Ada Harmon, b. May 1, 1796; m. 1812, Barnabas Jones, b. March
11, 1787. d. Dec. 12, 1862; she d. May 11, 1853. Resided in
Lenox, Ohio.
Children of Tryphena and Amos Chapin, (ij8i):
1408 Sheldon Chapin, b. June 15, 1792; m. Althea Huggins. Re-
sided in SuflField, Ct.
1409 Tamer Chapin, b. July 20, 1794; m. Jan. 28, 1812, James Austin,
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b. Jan. 1, 1791, d. Aug. 17, 1864; he d. Deo. 3, 1879. Resided in
Sheffield, Mass.
1410 N.\TTALiE Chapin, h. Ot. 1. 1798; d. voung.
1411 Earl Chapin, b. \ov. 19, 1801: d. Mav, 1812.
1412 Milton Chapin, b. Dec. 29. 1804; m. Feb. 11, 1830. Miss Pavne;
he d. Feb. 16. 1842.
Children of Eunice and Phineas Norton, ( rjfSj):
1413 Ruth Norton, I). Sept. 4, 1777: d. Sept. 2?, 1861; m. Nov. 22,
1796, Gideon Canfield, b. May 14. 1776. d. Feb. 25, 1827. Re-
sided in New Marlborough.
1414 Dan Norton, b. Tune 7. 1780: m. March 28. 1803. Hannah Hurd.
b. Oct. 11, 1780, d. June 28, 1876; he d. Oct. 11. 1852. Resided
in New Marlborough.
1415 Belinda Norton, b. Sept. 1, 1786; ni. 1806. Warren .\danis, b.
Oct. 7, 1784. Resided in New Marlborougii.
1416 Eunice Norton, b. March 13, 1790; ni. 1805. nenjaniin Peltis.
b. April 11, 1785. d. Oct. 26. 1818; she d. Jan. 1. 1874.
Children of Ebcnezcr and Anna Sheldon, (13^31:
1417 Silence Sheldon, b. Dec. 14, 1794; m. Sept. 2>>, 1815, Thomas
Woodruff, b. April 28, 1793, d. Sept. 19, 1848; she d. April 2)^,
1877. Resided in Illinois.
1418 JosiAH Sheldon, b. Oct. 12, 17%; m. (1) March 19, 1818, Esther
Stevens, b. 1799, d. March 10, 1828; m. (2) Feb. 5, 1829, Eliza
C. Wheeler, b. Nov. 2, 1808, d. May 1, 1868; he d. March 20.
1862. Resided in New Marlborough.
1419 Isaac Sheldon, b. Aug. 14, 1798; d. March 14. 1812.
Children of Thankful and Luther Wright, (1384):
1420 Dorick Wright, b. Oct. 8, 1797; ni. Dec. 5, 1822, Emma White,
b. April 5, 1801, d. April 5, 1874; he d. Mav 18, 1843.
1421 Alveh Wright, b. fuly 9, 1799: m. 1818, Sally Norton, b. March
5, 1798, d. 1878; he'd. Feb. 21, 1867. Resided in Wales, \. V.
1422 Elias Wright, b. July 4. 1801 ; m. March 4, 1824, Trvphena
Jones, b. March 28,^1800; he d. Oct. 9, 18(37. Resided in New
Marlborough.
1423 Eliza Wright, b. July 4, 1801, (twin with Elias) ; m. 1818,
Nathan Staunton; she d. Dec. 10, 1880. Resided in New Marl-
borough.
1424 Sheldon Wright, b. 1804: d. July 10, 1826.
8th gen. Children of Eleazer and Laura Sheldon, (1396):
1425 DoRLiSKA Elizabeth Sheldon, b. June 13, 1820; her life has
been a most useful one, the recipients of her kindly help being
in various walks of life. Although over 92 her days to devote
to the pleasure of others continue to add to her serenity; unm.
Res., (Julv 1, 1912). Indianapolis, Ind.
1426 Dr. Edward Austin Sheldon, b. Oct. 4, 1823; m. May 16, 1849,
Frances Ann Bradford Stiles, b. April 9. 1826, d. March 8, 1896;
she was of descent from Gov. Bradford of the Mayflower. Ed-
ward Austin Sheldon, A. M., Ph. D., was founder and for nearly
>
235 Jfiftif <Srttrrati0n - Mthah
forty years principal of the State Normal Training School at
Oswego. He was the originator of the system of object teach-
ing. His statue in bronze stands in the rotunda of the state
capitol at Albany, N. Y., placed there by the children of the State
of New York. His children were: Mary Sheldon, who m. Prof.
Earl Barnes. Frances Elizabeth Sheldon, the first American lady
to receive certificate of graduation with honors from the Univer-
sity of Oxford, England; she m. James C. Ailing. Charles Stiles
Sheldon, in charge of the Department of Science in the Oswego
State Normal; he m. Helen A. Buck. Anna Bradford Sheldon,
m. Lewis M. Howe. Laura Austin Sheldon, m. E. Ray Inman.
Dr. Edward Austin Sheldon d. Aug. 26, 1897.
1427 George Kellogg Sheldon, b. Dec. 23, 1827; m. Feb. 7, 1861, Mar-
tha Barber, b. Sept. 12, 1836, d. June 18, 1885; she was a
descendant of Rev. Thomas Potwin, whose antecedents were
French Huguenots. Mr. Sheldon d. March 18, 1883. Resided in
Perry, X. Y.
424 SARAH POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph. Afedad, Eltweed), b. Aug.
31, 1831, Sufiield; m. May 18, 1751, Gershom Sheldon, son of
Jonathan, b. 1724, d. Dec. 30, 1791.
6th gen. Children:
1428 Is.xAc Sheldox, b. 1752; m. Mindwell Phelps. Resided in Ru-
pert, Vt. H"
1429 Ebenezer Sheldon, b. 1754; m. (1) Huldah Hanchett; m. (2)
Love Davis. +
1430 Festus Sheldon, b. 1756; d. 1785.
1431 Olive Sheldon, b. 1759; d. 1762.
1432 Olive Sheldon, b. 1762; m. Phineas Spencer. +
1433 S.\R.\H Shelix)N, b. 1766: m. Elijah Sheldon. -I-
1434 Ger.sho.u Sheldon, b. 1772; d. 1791.
jth gen. Children of Isaac and Mindivell Sheldon, (1428):
1435 Sally Sheldon, b. 1782; m. Samuel Wyman of Millville, N. Y.
1436 IsA.\c Sheldon, b. 1784; m. Rebecca Spear. Resided in Rupert,
\'t.
1437 Abel Phelps Sheldon, b. 1786. Resided in Chester, N. Y.
1438 Phebe Sheldon, b. 1788.
1439 Marv Sheldon, b. 1791; m. Thomas Wyman. Resided in St.
Louis, Mo.
1440 Ends Sheldon, b. 1794. Resided in Rupert. Vt.
1441 Phebe Sheldon, b. 1796; m. Isaiah Pool. Resided in Ellisburg,
N. Y.
Children of Ebenezer and Hulda Sheldon, (142Q):
1442 Mary Sheldon, b. 1779; m. Ebenezer Harmon.
1443 Ebenezer Sheldon, b. 1782. Resided in z\urora, Ohio.
1444 Huldah Sheldon, b. 1785; m. Amzi Atwater.
1445 Gershom Sheldon, b. 1788; m. Roxanna Russell.
1446 Seth Sheldon, b. 1791.
<Srttfiilo9t; of ttfr Pomrroti J^amtlQ 23fi
Children of Ebenezer atid (2d wife) Love Sheldon, (1429):
1447 Festus Sheldon, b. 1794; m. Sarah Spencer.
1448 Rev. George Sheldon, b. 1797; m. Harmony Jobes.
Children of Olive and Phincas Spencer, (1432):
1449 Infant Spencer, b. 1780.
1450 G. Sheldon Spencer, b. 1782.
1451 Eli Spencer, b. 1784; d. 1785.
1452 Olive Spencer, b. 1786; m. Rufus Harmon.
1453 Betsey Spencer, b. 1787; m. Daniel Kinne of Aurora, Ohio.
1454 Mary Spencer, b. 1788; m. Jason Wilson of Great Bend.
1455 Phineas Spencer, b. 1790; d. 1792.
1456 Love Spencer, b. 1792; m. Edward Russell of Franklin. N. Y.
1457 Phineas Spencer, b. 1794; m. Sophronia Elwell of Lodi, N. Y.
1458 Nancy Spencer, b. 1796; m. Joseph Fish of Collins, X. Y.
1459 Rev. Ichabod Smith Spencer, D.D., b. 1798; m. Hannah Ma-
goffin. Resided in Brooklyn, N. Y.
1460 Solon Spencer, b. 1881. Resided in Lodi, X. Y.
Children of Sarah and Elijah Sheldon, (1433):
1461 Sarah Sheldon, m. Samuel Dye of Broadalpin, N. Y.
1462 Thankful Sheldon, m. Samuel Sherman.
1463 Rachel Sheldon, m. Elijah Hayes.
1464 Lydia Sheldon, m. Rev. Benjamin Capron.
1465 Simeon Sheldon, b. 1801; d. 1829; m.
1466 Olive Sheldon, b. 1804; d. 1836.
1467 Julia Sheldon, m. Abram Manchester.
1468 Joseph Sheldon. Resided in Broadalpin, N. Y.
425 ANNA POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b. Sept.
25, 1733, at Suffield; m. April 15, 1755, Abraham Curtis; she d.
Jan. 5, 1775.
6th gen. Children:
1469 Frederick Curtis, b. Jan. 18, 1756.
1470 JosiAH Curtis, b. Oct. 29, 1757.
1471 Eunice Curtis, b. May 4, 1761.
1472 Abraham Curtis, b. Oct. 7, 1763.
431 CAPT. ISAAC POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Aug. 6, 1745; m. (1) Feb. 11, 1773, Rhoda Sykes, who d. Aug.
20, 1784; he m. (2) Feb. 1, 1787, Jerusha Strong, who d. Oct. 8,
1826, at Southampton, Mass.; he d. March 24, 1804. He joined
the Revolution in response to the Lexington and Concord alarms.
May 2, 1777, was made Captain of the 3d company or train-band
in the town of Suffield, in the 1st Connecticut regiment. He was
Deputy at the General Assembly.
6th gen. Children by ist wife:
1473 Rhoda Pomeroy, b. Aug. 11, 1773. +
1474 Eunice Pomeroy, b. Feb. 24, 1776. +
1475 Isaac Pomeroy, b. June 17, 1784. +
23r Jfittif (SrttrratUm - Mthub
Children by 2d wife:
1476 William Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1789. +
1477 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. March 14, 1791. +
433 RALPH POMEROY, {Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Eltwecd), b.
Dec. 8, 1737; College of New Jersey, A.B., 1758; Dartmouth,
A.M., 1786; m. Jan. 31, 1770, Mrs. Eunice (Belden) Gardner, b.
1744, d. Aug. 26, 1816, Hebron, Conn., dau. of Thomas Belden
and Ruth W'yllys Lord. He was a lawyer of wide renown, and
Quartermaster-General of Connecticut during the Revolution.
6th gen. Children:
1478 Ralimi Pomerov. 1479 George Pomeroy.
1480 Eunice Pomerov, b. Nov. 25, 1776. +
1481 Ann Pomeroy.
1482 Abigail Pomeroy, b. 1780; m. Jan. 16, 1798, Eli Jones.
1483 Frederick Pomerov.
Copy of the oath of allegiance to the United States, taken by Ralph
Pomeroy previous to his appointment as Paymaster:
"I, Ralph Pomeroy, do acknowledge the United States of America to be free,
independent and sovereign states, and declare that the people thereof owe no
allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain; and I renounce, refute,
and abjure any Allegiance, or Obedience, to him; and I do swear, that I will to
the Utmost of my Power, support, maintain, and defend the said United States,
against the said King George the Third, his heirs and successors, and his and
their Abettors, Assistants, and Adherents, and will serve the said United States
in the office of Paymaster to Col. Wyllys' Regiment, which I now hold, with
Fidelity, according to the best of my Skill and Understanding. So help me, God.
(Signed)
"Ralph Pomeroy.
"West Point, Headquarters,
'■8th day of March, 1778.
"Personally Appeared, Ralph Pomeroy. Paymaster to Col. Wyllys' Regiment,
and took the above oath by him subscribed, Before me.
"Sam'l H. Parsons, B. G."
434 ELEAZER WHEELOCK POMEROY, {Benjamin, Joseph, Me-
dad, Eltzvecd), b. Sept. 1. 1739; m. May 8, 1764, Mary Wyllys,
bp. Nov. 7, 1742, d. at Middletown, Conn., Nov. 14, 1783, dau.
of Col. George Wyllys (Hezekiah, Samuel) and Elizabeth Whit-
ing. He was a merchant in Hartford, and d. there about 1784;
(another authority says he d. in the West Indies, where he had
estates).
6th gen. Children:
1484 Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, b. 1765. +
1485 Mary Wyllys Pomeroy, b. Nov. 18, 1767. +
1486 John Pomeroy. 1487 George Pomeroy.
1488 Benjamin Pomeroy, b. 1774; d. young.
' 436 ABIGAIL POMEROY, {Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
May 31, 1744, Hebron, Conn.; m. April 19, 1759, John Gillett,
^
<Sntfalii9g of tilt PomrroQ J^amilg 23fi
of Hebron, b. Jan. 6, 1738, Hebron, d. about 1808, son of John Gil-
lett, Sr., (a wealthy and prominent business man);gr. Yale, 1758, A.
M. John Gillett, Jr., was the only son of his father and inherited
his fortune, but lost it after a short business career. His wife.
Mrs. Abigail Pomeroy Gillett, then established a school for young
ladies, which acquired quite a wide and favorable reputation in
New England; this young ladies* school was established at East
Windsor, "and many students came from Hartford." Mrs. Gillett
is described as a "gentlewoman of great beauty, dignity, and state-
liness of manner." An obituary of the day, referring to her said:
"The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way
of righteousness." She d. Jan. 24, 1835, nearly 92 years of age.
6th gen. Children:
1489 Ar.rmas Gili-ETT, b. Jan.. 1760: m. Mrs. Deniing (a widow) and
removed to Pennsvlvania, where he engaged in farming; he d.
about 1808.
1490 Augustus Gillett, b. 1763.
1491 Arkthusa Gillett. b. 1765: ni. Oct. 26, 17^3, Dr. Dan Arnold,
b. 1767, Easthampton, Conn., d. Feb. 14, 1«^55. son of Deacon
Gideon Arnold and wife Lucy Hinckley; she d. Feb. 11, 1852.
Res., Hebron, Conn. +
1492 Ralph Pomerov Gillett. 1493 Abigail Gillett.
7/A gen. Children of Arcthusa and Dr. Dan Arnold, (1491):
1494 Abigail Pomeroy Arnold, b. March 2, 1797, Hebron; m. Sept.
15, 1819, Jehiel Annable, b. Nov., 1789, East Haddam, d. Oct. 1,
1861 ; she d. March 10, 1880. +
1495 Dan Hinckley Arnold, b. Sept. 18, 1800, Hebron; m. Nov. 4,
1824, in King's Chapel, Boston. Mass., Harriet Maria Welles, b.
March 21, 1802, d. April 14, 1867, dau. of Bill Welles and wife
Lucy Brewster, (descendant of Elder William Brewster) ; he d.
June 26, 1887. +
1496 Eliza Arethusa Arnold, b. May, 1803. Hebron: d. Sept., 1826;
unm.
8th gen. Children of Abigail and Jehiel Annable, (14^4):
1497 Caroline Elizabeth Annable, b. Sept. 8, 1820; m. June 2, 1847,
Joseph Kellogg, son of Joseph Day Kellogg and wife Rachel Com-
stock, d. Dec. 23, 1900; she d. Aug. 12. 1869.
1498 Sarah Bassett Annable, b. Mav 8, 1822, Hebron; d. Mav 22,
1822.
1499 Abigail Maria Annable, b. Sept. 30, 1823; m. July 15, 1845,
Dr. Asahel Plympton.
1500 Dan Arnold Annable, b. Oct. 15, 1835; d. Nov. 30, 1841.
Children of Dan H. and Harriet M. Arnold, (14^5):
1501 Mary Ann Arnold, b. Oct. 6, 1825, Hebron, Conn.; d. June 25,
1890.
1502 Eliza Arethusa Arnold, b. March 29, 1827, New York City;
239 Miftii dtmrttlian - HUHtdk
m. Nov. 2, 1848, Major David Hammond Vinton.* promoted to
the rank of Brevet Major-General in the regular establishment
during the Civil War, b. May 3, lcS03, Providence, R. I.; d. Feb. 21,
1873. son of David X'inton and wife Mary Atwell; she d. June
1. 1895. +
1503 foiiN Wkllks Ar.nold, b. March 11, 1830, New York; d. March
'16, 1838.
1504 Harrikt Maria Ar.nold. b. July 24, 1832, Hebron, Conn.: d.
April 5, 1838.
1505 Licv Matilda Arnold, b. March 16, 1835, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; d.
March 11, 1838.
1506 Fra.\'ci:s Rose .Xrxold, b. [ulv 2. 1837. Brooklvn.
1.^07 He.vriltta Marl\ Arnold, b. Dec. 8, 1839, Brooklyn.
1508 Gt'STAvus .\rnold, b. Jan. 26, 1844, Brooklyn.
p/A gcu. Children of Elha A. and David H. Vinton, (1502}:
1509 Harriett Arnold \'inton. b. Oct. 3, 1849, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; ni.
Dr. Clarkson Jay.
1510 Ale.xander HANfiLTON X'iNTON. i). March 30, 1852, Brooklyn; gr.
St. Stevens Colkw. Anandale, X. Y., 1873; D.D., 1890; first
Bishop of West Mass., 1902.
1511 Ida \\'elles \'inton. b. March 8. 1855. St. Louis. Mo.: m. An-
gelo Tillinghast Freedlcy, attorney-at-law, practicing at Philadel-
phia. +
1512 NIarion Arn(m.d \'inton. b. Julv 4. 1857, San Antonio, Texas:
d. June 24, 1896.
1513 Ror.ERT CA.MpnRLL X'iNTON, b. Xov. 16, 1859. San Antonio, Texas.
loth gen. Child of Ida IV. and Angela T, Freedlcy, (1511):
1514 X'iNToN Fri:i:dli:v. b. Xov. 5, 1891, Philadelphia. Pa.
437 JOSIAH POMEROY, {Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Eltiveed), b.
June 18, 1745, Hebron, Conn.; Yale. 1770; Assistant-Quartermas*
•Brevet-Major General David Hammond Vinton. U. S. .\., was born May 3,
1803, in Providence, R. I.: he was graduated from West Point, 1822, as Second-
Lieutenant in the 4t!i U. S. Artillery, a crack regiment. He served in the Creek
and Florida war. 1835-6. on quartermaster's duty, and was Quartermaster of the
Territory of Florida, 1837-40. On duty at the Northern frontier during^ the bor-
der disturbances, and in the Mexican war in 1848-50. He was Chief-Quarter*
master of the Department of the West. St. Louis. 1852-6, and of the Department
of Texas. 1857-61, with headquarters at San Antonio. Here he was taken prisoner
by the rebels at the beginning of the Civil War. and put upon parole. He and
his family were among the last to leave Texas before the blockade.
He served through the war as Chief-Quartermaster, with headquarters in
New York City, in charge of the depot for supplying the army with clothing and
equippage, 1861-67. He organized this department and displayed remarkable ex*
ecutive ability. He handled $119,000,000 during the war, and after rendering his
accounts for settlement the Government owed him 42 cents! This amount was
.^ent to Gen. David Hammond Vinton, U. S. A., by United States draft, with a
letter commending him for his financial ability in handling $119,000,000 in war
time with so small a margin of profit and loss, especially when the responsibili-
ties were so great. Gen. Vinton never exchanged this small draft for cash! His
commission as Brevet-Major-Gcneral, U. S. A., was "For faithful and meritorious
services during the rebellion." When he was retired from active service he re-
paired to his country place at Stamford, Conn., where he died in 1873.
C^rttraUiQg of tift Pomrrog 99m\i^ 240
-
ter with his brother^ Ralph Poiweroy, who was Quartermaster-
General, during the Revolution ;,'m. about 1788-89, Mary Cook of
Newburyport; he d. July, 1812.
6th gen. Children:
1515 Mary Ann Pomerov, bp. Nov. 28. 1790. +
1516 Barre Gore Pomeroy, bp. Nov. 28. 1790. +
1517 Ralph Wheelock Pomeroy, b. Jan. 12. 1792. -*-
1518 David Pomeroy.
1519 John Cook Pomeroy, bp ; d. about 1812.
441 HANNAH POMEROY, {Benjamin. Joseph, Medad, Eltiveed),
b. Dec. 8, 1751, Hebron, Conn.; m. Dec. 10, 1780, at Hebron, the
Rev. David McClure, b. Nov. 18, 1748, (o. s.), Newport, R. L,
son of Dea. John McClure of Boston; Yale, 1769. He assisted
Dr. Eleazer Wheelock in founding Dartmouth College, and taught
there 1769-1772; he was ordained a missionary to the Delaware
Indians in Ohio, 1772; pastor of the Congregational Church at
East Windsor, Conn., 1786-1809: trustee of Phillips Academy,
Exeter, N. H., and trustee of Dartmouth College, from which in-
stitution he received the degree of D.D., in 1800; he d. June 25,
1820, at South Windsor, Conn. ; Hannah, his wife, d. there April
9, 1814.
6th gen. Children:
1520 Abigail Wheelock McClure, b. Nov. 14, 1781, North Hampton,
N. H.: m. Dec. 22, 1801. Oliver Tudor, b. Sept. 4. 1772, South
Windsor, d. there Feb. 6, 1845, son of Samuel Tudor and Naomi
Deggens; she d. Sept. 15, 1853, South Windsor, Conn. +
1521 Rachel McClintock McClure, b. Oct. 29, 1783. North Hamp-
ton, N. H.: m. Nov. 27, 1806. Elihu Wolcott, b. Feb. 12, 1784, d.
Dec. 2, 1858, son of Samuel Wolcott of South Windsor. He
represented East Windsor in the State Legislature, and in 1830
moved to Jacksonville, 111., where he d. ; Rachel, his wife, d. April
2, 1822, at South Windsor, Conn. +
1522 Mary Ann McClure, b. Sept. 5. 1786; d. July 12, 1789.
1523 Susanna Wyllys McClure, bp. Nov. 16, 1788; d. about 1824,
unin.
1524 Hannah Pomeroy McClure, bp. Aug. 28, 1791 ; d. Aug. 25, 1804.
/th gen. Children of Abigail IF. and Oliver Tudor, (1^20):
1525 Mary Ann Tudor, b. Sept. 25. 1802; m. P. P. Whelpley, (s. p.);
m. (2) June 16, 1834, Abner Brush of Ridgefield, Conn.; she d.
June 23, 1864. +
1526 David McClure Tudor, b. Jan. 17, 1805; m. Dec. 12, 1839, Sarah
Elizabeth Green, b. Dec. 10, 1806, New London, Conn., d. Nov.
8. 1881, dau. of Col. Samuel Green of New London; he d. April
20. 1880. +
1527 Abigail Tudor, b. March 22, 1807; m. Abner Loren Reed, b.
April 21, 1800, son of Dea. Abner Reed of South Windsor; she d.
Sept. 14, 1853, Conneaut, Ohio. +
1528 Sophia Haskell Tudor, b. Nov. 1, 1817; m. Dec. 16, 1840,
241 i^iftfr demmtan - HbdttH
Charles Green, b. Oct. 17, 1812. d. April 7. 1887, Providence, R. L,
son of Col. Samuel Green of Xcw London and South Windsor.
Conn.: she d. Mav 17, 1888. +
1529 Pailine TuDOR.'b. July 8. 1820; d. Nov. 30, 1891: unni.
Children of Rachel McC. and Elihii Wolcott, (1521):
1530 nLiZAHETH Ann W'olcott, b. Dec. 26, 1807; ni. Nov. 28, 1832, at
Jacksonville, 111., Col. Carlton Perry of Keokuk, Iowa. -*-
1531 EiJifi* W'ofxoTT. hp. June 5. 1808: d. early.
1532 Hannah McCllre Wolcott, b. June 7. 1811; m. Nov. 28. 1S32,
the Rev. William Kirby of Jacksonville. 111., b. July 2, 1805. Mid-
dletown. Conn.; gv. Yale, 1827; Yale Divinity School. 1831: or-
dained a Congregational minister and moved to Illinois, where he
became superintendent of home missions for that state; he d.
Dec. 30, 1851; she d. Aug. 31, 1858, Jacksonville, III. +
1533 Sami'EL Wolcott, b. July 2, 1813, South Windsor, Conn.: gr.
Yale, 1833. and Andover Theological Seminary, 1837: ordained
Nov. 13, 1839, missionary to Syria; superintendent of the Home
Missionary Society, 1874-1882; received the degree of S.T.D.,
1863; m. Sept. 5, 1839, Catherine Elizabeth Wood, who d. at
Beirut, Syria: he m. (2) Nov. 1. 1843, Harriet Amanda Pope,
dau. of Jonathan Pope of Millbury. Mass.; he d. Feb. 24. 1886.
Longineadow, Mass. +
1534 Arthur Wolcott, b. April 10, 1815; m. July 12, 1849, Sarah .\.
Morrison, dau. of Gen. William Morrison of Lock Haven. Pa. :
she d. Ian. 27, 1851 : he m. (2) Clara Belknap, dau. of Gen. Wil-
liam G." Belknap. T. S. A.: he d. Nov. 28. 1873. +
1535 Elizi-r Wolcott. b. Aug. 7. 1817; gr. Yale, 1839: he was super-
intendent of division of the Wabash railroad; later engaged in
literary pursuits at Jacksonville, III.: m. July 15, 1846. Martha
Lyman Dwight. dau. of Daniel Dwight of Westmoreland, X. H.:
he d. about 1^00. in California. +
1536 FR.ANCE.S Jane Wolcott, b. March 30, 1819; m. in 1849, Barber
Lewis, Major of United States \'olunteers during the Civil War;
he settled in Memi)his. Tenn.. where he was elected Prol)atc Judge,
and member of Congress: s. p.
8th gen. Child of Mary Ann and Abner Brush, (i^J^j:
1537 Mary Sophia Brush, b. March 2, 1837; m. March 2, 1857, John
Thomas Clemens of Washington, D. C.
Children of David McC. and Sarah Tudor, (ijs6):
1538 Mary Starr Tudor, b. Sept. 19, 1840.
1539 Sarah Elizabeth Tudor, b. Dec. 30, 1842; m. Oct. 13, 1894, Ed-
win Dwight Farnam of South Windsor.
1540 Louisa Green Tudor, b. July 5, 1844; m. May 28, 1868, Pierre
SythofF Starr, M. D., of Hartford, Conn.
Children of Abigail and Abner L. Reed, (1527):
1541 Charlotte Sophia Reed. 1542 Oliver Tudor Reed.
dtmalaQ^ of tl^t Pott»rog 9wmi^ 242.
Children of Sophia and Charles Green, (1^28):
1543 Charles Lanman Grek.v, M.D., b. Sept. 24, 1841; Surgeon in
the United States Xavy during the Civil War; practicing physi-
cian at Providence, R. I. ; m. Sept. 28. 1882, Maria Steuben
Spooner of Hempsted, L. I., who d. May 22, 1885; he m. (2)
Jan. 5, 1888, Ida Trimble of Philadelphia.
Children of Elisabeth A. and Carlton Perry, (1530):
1544 Catherine Wolcott Perrv. 1545 Howard Perry.
Children of Hannah McC, and William Kirby, (ifijJJ:
1546 Edward Payson Kirby, b. Oct. 28, 1833, Blackstock Grove, III.;
gr. Illinois College, 1854; Common Pleas Judge in Morgan county,
111.; law practice at Jacksonville; m. Oct. 2S, 1862. Julia Smith Dun-
can, dau. of Governor Duncan of Illinois; she d. [uly 5. 18%; he ni.
(2) Oct. 20, 1898, Lucinda Gallaher. dau. of "the Rev. William
(^allaher of Jacksonville ; s. p.
1547 William Arthur Kirby, b. Aug. 6, 1837, Mendon, 111.; Captain
of United States X'olunteers during the Civil War: m. Sept. 10,
1867, Arabella Clement, dau. of the Rev. Joshua Clement of New
Hampshire.
1548 Frances Caroline Kirby, b. Jan. 25, 1840, Mendon, 111.: m. Aug.
1, 1861, the Rev. James McLaughlin, b. Oct. 25, 1829. son of
Hugh McLaughlin of Hudson, X. Y. : gr. Illinois College, 1857:
ordained missionary to California, 1861 ; d. Aug. 17, 1870, Gilroy,
Cal.
1549 Catherine Wolcott Kirby, b. July 8, 1842, Mendon, III.; m.
Sept. 9, 1862, Charles E. Ross, son of William G. Ross of Jack-
sonville; she d. March 30, 1880, Jacksonville, 111.
1550 Helen McClure Kirby, b. Jan. 12, 1845. Mendon: m. June 23,
1870, at Jacksonville, the Rev, Melatiah Everett Dwight, b. Oct.
15, 1841, South Hadley, Mass., d. Sept. 14, 1907, at Mt. Holyoke,
Mass., son of John Dwight and wife, Nancy Shaw Everett, of
New York City. He was graduated from the College of the
City of New York, 1860; from Bellevue Medical College, 1864;
from Andover Theological Seminary, 1866; traveled in Palestine;
returned and engaged in missionary work in the west nineteen
years. Mr. Dwight was president of the New York Genealogical
and Biographical Society, and for several years editor of the
"Genealogical and Biographical Magazine," and author of several
genealogical works. +
1551 Henry Burges Kirby, b. March 20, 1848; d. Aug. 4, 1849.
1552 Elizabeth Pomeroy Kirby, b. April 1, 1850, Jacksonville; grad-
uated from Vassar College, 1872; unm.
Children of Samticl and Harriet Pope Wolcott, (1533):
1553 Samuel Adams Wolcott, b. Sept. 3, 1844, Longmeadow, Mass.;
m. July 25, 1883, Julia E. Neal, dau. of Peter Neal of Brooklyn,
X. Y.
1554 Henry Rogers Wolcott, b. March 15, 1846, Longmeadow; set-
tled in ColoradQ,
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1555 Edward Oliver Wolcott, b. March 20, 1848; went to Colorado
in 1871; in 1889, he was elected to the United States Senate; re-
elected in 1895 ; m. May 14, 1890, at Buffalo, N. Y., Frances Met-
calf, (widow of L)mian K. Bass).
1556 Harriet Agnes Wolcott, b. March 15, 1850. Belchertown, Mass. ;
m. April 29, 1879, Frederick O. Vaille.
1557 William Edgar Wolcott, b. April 26, 1852, Belchertown; m.
March 21, 1894, Cora M. Wadsworth of Lawrence; she d. Sept.
26, 1895.
1558 Catherine Ellen Wolcott, b. Aug. 25. 1854, Providence, R. I.;
m. Nov. 2, 1880, Charles M. Toll of Denver, Colo.
1559 Mary Alice Wolcott, b. May 25, 1858, Providence, R. I.; d.
Feb. 3, 1859.
1560 Anna Louise Wolcott, b. May 25. 1858, (twin with Mary) ;
Principal of the Miss Wolcott School, Denver, Colo.
1561 Clara Gertrude Wolcott, b. Dec. 17, 1859, Chicago, III.; gr.
Smith College, Xorthampton, 1883: unm.
1562 Herbert Walter Wolcott, b. Nov. 25, 1861, Chicago; m. Oct. 5.
1898, Nellie May Gabriel, dau. of William E. Gabriel of Cleve-
land, Ohio.
1563 Charlotte Augusta Wolcott, b. Oct. 20, 1863, Cleveland, Ohio;
gr. Smith College, 1896.
Child of Arthur and Sarah A, Wolcott, (1534):
1564 Sarah Morrison Wolcott; adopted by an aunt, and named Sarah
Morrison Perry.
Child of Arthur and (3d tvifc) Clara Wolcott, (1534):
1565 Bertha Belknap Wolcott.
Children of Elicur and Martha Wolcott, (1535):
1566 Leofwvn Wolcott, b. Nov. 20, 1847: d. Aug. 7, 1858.
1567 Edith Dwight Wolcott, h. Dec. 19. 1850; m. Dec. 22, 1897, John
Herbert Davis, Professor of Music at Randolph-Macon College,
Lynchburg, Va.
1568 Elihu Wolcott, b. Dec. 30, 1859; d. Aug. 29, 1860.
1569 May Mattoon Wolcott, b. May 14, 1863; m. Dec. 22, 1886,
Prof. Edward Bull Clapp. b. April 14. 1856. son of Rev. Charles
Wells Clapp: he was Professor of the Greek Language and Lit-
erature, University of California, at Berkeley.
gth gen. Children of Helen M, and Melatiah £. Dwight, (1550):
1570 Ellsworth Everett Dwight, b. March 20, 1871, Onarga, 111.;
gr. Princeton College. 1893; m. April 4, 1907, Margaret Dexter
Brush. Member of the firm of Church & Dwight Co., soda manu-
facturers, New York City.
1571 Richard Everett Dwight, b. June 21, 1875, at Onarga, III.;
gr. Princeton College, 1897; enlisted for the Spanish war June 26,
1898, as private in battery A, Penn. Vol. L. Art.; honorably dis-
charged Nov. 19, 1898, when the battery was mustered out of
service; was in Porto Rico with Gen. Miles; gr. from the New
York Law School, 1899; m. Sept. 27, 1899, Gertrude Grace.
(^pttralngg of tff? J^aimra^ ifamilg 244
Member of the law firm of Rounds, Shurman & Dwight, New
York City.
1572 William Kirby Dwkiht, b. Aug. 8. 1879. Onarga, III.; gr.
Princeton College, 1901 ; gr. Xew York College of Physicians and
Surgeons, 1905 ; was intern Roosevelt Hospital, Xew York City,
two years; was elected assistant-surgeon Roosevelt, 1909; m. Feb.
23. 1909, Genevieve Ketchum.
1573 Katharine Wolcott Dwight, b. Aug. 13. 1881, Fairfield, Iowa;
gr. Mount Holyoke College, 1905 : gr. Kindergarten Department of
Pratt Institute,' Brooklyn, X. Y.. 1907; m. May 18, 1911, Gordon
Lockwood Berry.
1574 Marion Edith Dwight, b. Feb. 27, 1886, Fairfield, Iowa; gr.
Smith College, Xorthampton. 1910.
413 ELIHU P(\MKR(n', {Bcujamin, Joseph, Medad. Eliicccd). b.
Aug. 18, 1755, in Hebron. Conn.: m. 1776, Lydia Barber, b. July
20, 1767, (1. Aug. 23, 1828. dau. of Capt. Stephen Barber and
Alice Cass. Resided in Granville and Enfield, and Hebron ; he d.
April 17, 1834.
6th gen. Children:
1575 Eleazer Pomerov, b. Dec. 13, 1776. +
1576 Abigail Pomerov. b. May 17, 1779. -r
1577 Elihu Pomerov, b. 1783; m. Miss Hull; d. 1812.
1578 Benjamin Pomerov, b. March 27. 1787. +
1579 Stephen Barber Pomerov, b. 1789. +
1580 Samuel Pomerov. b. Feb. 17, 1793. +
1581 Rev. Augustus Pomerov, b. Oct. 2, 1795. -i-
445 CAPT. XATHAXIEL PC^MEROV, (Xathaniei Joseph, Medad,
Eltzceed), b. Mav 23, 1734. Suftield, Conn.; m. Sept. 16, 1756,
Abigail King, b. Feb. 11. 1739, d. Oct. 19, 1823, dau. of Ebenezer
King; he d. Feb. 12. 1787. As a Captain in the war of the Revo-
lution he was credited to Suffield, Conn., having joined Gen.
Spencer's regiment in 1776. 1777 and 1778.
6th gen. Children:
1582 Nathaniel Pomerov, b. Xov. 29. 1758. +
1583 Amos Pomerov, b. Oct. 19, 1760. +
1584 Abigail Pomerov, b. Dec. 9, 1762; m. Jan. 13, 1779, Samuel
Palmer.
1585 Susannah Pomerov, b. March 13. 1765. +
1586 LucENA Pomeroy, b. March 6, 1767.
1587 Ebenezer Pomerov, b. Jan. 27, 1769; m. (1) April 14, 1793,
Charlotte Elizabeth Mitchell, who d. July 8, 1826; he m. (2) Aug.
27, 1827, Betsey Remington, who d. Feb. 1, 1829; s. p.
1588 Anna Pomerov, b. Dec. 27, 1770. +
1589 Alexander Pomerov, b. Jan. 13, 1773. +
1590 Phineas Pomeroy, b. 1774. +
1591 Chloe Pomeroy, b, Feb. 20, 1775. +
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446 LUCINA POMEROY. (Nathaniel. Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Oct. 27, 1736, Suffield, Conn.; m. April 19. 1759, James Smith,
b. 1733. d. Feb. 17, 1787, son of James Smith and Mary Winchell;
she d. Aug. 28, 1887, Suffield.
6th gen. Children:
1392 LuciNA Smith, b. Dec. 20, 1759.
1593 Sl'i^anna Smith, b. Dec. 20, 1759, (twin with Lucina).
1594 James Smith, b. Feb. 22, 1761.
1595 Medad Smith, b. Oct. 2, 1763; m. July 30, 1789, Elizabeth Hale,
dau. of John Hale; she d. Xov. 19, 1847; he d. Oct. 14, 1844,
Wilmington, \*t. +
1597 Lucina Smith, b. March 22, 1766.
1598 Uriah Smith, b. Dec. 29, 1868.
1599 Mary Smith, b. Feb. 2i, 1771.
1600 Caroline Smith, b. April 23, 1773.
1601 Chloe Smith, b. March 24, 1777.
1602 Daniel Smith, b. Xov. 26, 1779.
yth gen. Children of Medad and Elizabeth Smith, (1595):
1603 AlEDAD Smith, b. May 5, 1790.
1604 Laura Smith, b. June 16, 1792.
1605 Sally Smith, b. Oct. 3, 1794.
1606 James Smith, b. Oct. 19, 1796.
1607 Obed Smith, b. April 26, 1799.
1608 Sylvester Smith, b.
1609 Abel Stacy Smith, b. Xov. 29, 1810, Wilmington, Vt. ; m. Dec.
24, 1839, Elizabeth Briggs Brewster, b. Oct. 31, 1818, d. Nov. 23,
1900, dau. of William Brewster of Parkman, Me. ; had 8 children.
448 CAPT. JOHX^ POMEROY, {Nathaniel, Joseph. Medad, Eltweed).
I). March 7, 1741. in Suftield, Conn.; m. 1764. Elizabeth King, b.
Oct. 25, 1746. (1. 1831, l^ouUney, \'t., dau. of Ebenezer King of
Suffield; he d. May 29, 1804. Paulet, Vt. He was a soldier of the
Revolution, joining Capt. Oliver Hackett's Company as Sergeant,
May 12, 1775. He also responded to the alarms from Lexington,
nine days in that service.
6th gen. Children:
1610 Elizabeth Pomerov, b. May 20, 1765, in Windsor, Conn.; m.
Mr. Carter; d. Paulet, \'t., 1845.
1611 John Spencer Pomerov, b. Aug. 23, 1767, Windsor, Conn. 4-
1612 Olive Pomerov, b. Sept. 23, 1769, Windsor; m. Mr. Taylor; she
d. May 5, 1813, Paulet. Vt.
1613 Lucy Pomerov, b. Jan. 1, 1772; m. Mr. Hastings; she d. May 5,
1813, Paulet, Vt.
1614 Zadoc Pomerov, b. July 1, 1774. +
1615 Daniel Pomerov, b. Oct. 6, 1776; m. Dec. 8, 1801, Lucy Farring-
ton of Roxbury; he d. March. 1820. Boston, Mass.
1616 Margaret Pomerov, b. Feb. 14, 1779; m. Mr. Blossom; she d.
Aug. 5, 1825, Paulet, Vt.
Ii
449 DANIEL POMEROY, {Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
March 20, 1740, Suffield, Conn.; m. July 7, 1768, Hannah Hale,
who d. July 2, 1814; he d. June 17, 1777. He was a private in
Capt. Clark's Company in the Revolution.
6th gen. Children:
1617 Joseph Pomerov, b. Aug. 7, 1769. +
1618 Daniel Pomeroy, b. March 25. 1771 ; d. May 10, 1771.
1619 Hannah Pomeroy, b. April 20, 1772.
1620 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. March 13, 1776.
450 ASA POMEROY, {Nathaniel. Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b. June
1, 1749, Suffield, Conn.; m. Dec. 15, 1771, Mary King, b. Dec. 7,
1746, d. Feb. 22, 1824, dau. of Thomas King. He responded to
the Lexington and Concord alarms preceding the Revolution. He
d. March 9, 1806.
6th gen. Children, b. in Suffield, Conn.:
1621 Mary Pomeroy, b. March 12, 1773.
1622 Asa Pomeroy, b. Nov. 15, 1774. +
1623 HuLDAH Pomeroy, b. Nov. 29, 1776. +
1624 Oliver Pomeroy, b. and d. Jan. 4, 1779.
1625 Ruth Pomeroy, b. Sept. 15, 1781; m. Stodard Pasco, son of
Jonah Pasco and Sarah Allen.
1626 Oliver Pomeroy, b. June 15, 1783; m. Nancy Sheldon, b. 1786,
dau. of John Sheldon and Sabra March; she d. Aug. 13, 1862; he
d. April 22, 1868; s. p.
1627 Israel Pomeroy, b. May 22, 1786. +
451 NOAH POMEROY, {Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b. Jan.
24, 1733, Suffield, Ct. ; m. Oct. 15, 1753, Elizabeth Norton.
6th gen. Child:
162S Nathaniel Pomeroy, b. 1755. +
453 ELIAKIM POMEROY, {Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
May 3, 1735, Suffield, Conn.; m. Oct. 19, 1758, Sarah Sheldon,
who d. Nov. 25, 1813, aged 78; he d. June 19, 1790, Suffield, Conn.
6th gen. Children, b. Suffield:
1629 Olive Pomeroy, b. June 14, 1759; m. Jan.. 1802, Joseph Jones,
who d. March 3, 1835; she d. April 24, 1835; s. p.
1630 Abigail Pomeroy, b. May 7, 1761. +
1631 Anna Pomeroy, b. March 8, 1763. +
1632 Jonathan Remington Pomeroy, b. 1764; his father left him £75
in his will; d. 1803; unm.
1633 Epaphras Pomeroy, b. Sept. 1, 1765. +
1634 Sarah Pomeroy, b. Dec. 5, 1766; d. April 17, 1767.
1635 Sarah Pomeroy, b. Aug. 11, 1770. +
1636 Rebecca Pomeroy, b. Dec. 5, 1772. +
1637 Oliver Pomeroy, b. Dec. 7, 1774. H-
1638 AcHSAH Pomeroy, b. Oct. 7, 1777. +
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454 ABIGAIL POMEROY, (Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Suffield, Oct. 14, 1736; m. Bildad Gibbons. Resided, Wheatland,
N. Y.
6th gen. Children:
1639 Oliver Gibbons. 1640 Thankful Gibbons.
It is said there were three other children.
458 JOxVATHAN POMEROY, {Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Sept. 13, 1743, Suffield, Conn.; m. March 7, 1771, Prudence
Austin, b. 1747, d. Jan. 15, 1837; he d. Sept. 24, 1808. He re-
sponded to the alarms of Lexington and Concord; also, joined
Capt. Oliver Hackett's Company in the Revolution, from Suffield,
May 13, 1775.
6th gen. Children, b. at Suffield:
1641 Prudence Pomeroy, b. Jan. 27, 1772; m. Zalmon Root.
1642 Jonathan Remington Pomeroy, b. May 31, 1773. +
1643 Oliver Pomeroy, b. Jan. 6, 1775; d. same year.
1644 Beulah Pomeroy. b. Dec. 28, 1775: d. Dec. 30, 1775.
1645 Beulah Pomeroy, b. May 25, 1777; m. (1) Mr. Dibble; m. (2)
Mr. Hale.
1646 Rufus Pomeroy, b. March 14, 1779.
461 RUTH POMEROY, (Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b. Feb.
8, 1751, at Suffield, Conn.; m. Nov. 16, 1775, Abner Bellamy.
6th gen. Children, b. at Suffield:
1647 Abner Bellamy, b. and d. Feb. 4, 1778.
1648 Silas Bellamy, b. Jan. 17, 1782.
1649 Ruth Bellamy, b. about 1785.
1650 Noah Bellamy, b. March 12, 1788; d. soon.
1651 Abigail Bellamy, b. March 12, 1788, (twin with Noah).
1052 Noah L. Bellamy, b. July 2, 1790.
488 SAMUEL POMEROY, (Samuel, Samuel, Caleb. Eltweed), b.
Sept. 7, 1729; m. 1752. Chloe Kingsley, b. .\ug. 16, 1731, dau.
of Ebenezer Kingsley.
6th gen. Children:
1653 Samuel Pomeroy, d. young.
1654 Chloe Pomeroy, bp. 1755; m. Edward Wright of Chester.
1655 John Pomeroy, bp. 1757.
1656 Ira Pomeroy, bp. 1759. +
1657 Nancy Pomeroy, b. June 3, 1766. +
1658 Mabel Pomeroy, b. Sept. 30, 1769; m. David Hamilton of Chester.
489 HANNAH POMEROY, (Samuel, Samuel Caleb, Eltweed), b.
May 23, 1732; m. 1752, Aaron Searle, b. 1727, d. Sept. 27, 1810,
son of Nathaniel Searle and Priscilla Webb; she d. Nov. 6, 1793.
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6th gen. Children:
1659 Hannah Searle, b. 1753; m. 1797, Edward Porter of Hawley,
where he lived and d.
1()60 Xaomi Searle, b. 1755; m. Capt. Daniel Ludington of West
SpriiifT^field. Mass.; he was in Shays's rebellion of 1788.
Kx>l Lrcv Searle, b. 1759; ni. 1788, Moses Clark, son of Aaron.
l()()2 Aakox Searle. b. 1761; m. and moved to Bridport, \'t. ; soldier
in the War of the Revolution ; removed to Ohio. +
1663 Dollv Searle, b. 1763.
1664 Phineas Se.\rle. b. about 1765; moved to Bridport, Vt.
1665 Samuel Searle, b. 1768; moved to Bridport.
lfrC/> Ira Searle, b. 1770; m. (1) 1793. Polly Everett; m. (2) 1806,
Catherine Coleman, dau. of Lemuel Coleman and Catherine Ed-
wards.
]G(i7 LuTTiER Searle, b. 1773; he moved to Milton, \'t., 1814, thence
to Pennsylvania.
j'th gen. Child of Aaron Searle, (1662):
1668 Samuel Searle, b. 1805; living in Bridport in 1888.
490 AAROX POMEROY, {Samuel, SamueL Caleb. FMiveed), b.
April 22. 1734; m. (1) Dec. 22, 1759, Eholoma Burt; m. (2) Oct.
6, 1764, Eunice Clark, b. 1738, d. 1816, dau. of Selah Clark and
Eunice Wright; he d. July 14. 1819.
6th gen. Children:
1669 Eholoma Pomeroy, bp. April 27, 1766; m. March 9, 1788, Supply
Clark.
1670 Aaron Pomeroy. Jr.. bp. Aug. 18, 1767. 4- ^
1671 Eunice Pomeroy, bp. Aug. 4, 1776.
191 AXXA POMEROY, {Samuel, Samuel, Caleb, Eltxceed), b. 1736;
m. about 1757, Gideon Searle, b. 1731 ; she m. (2) Aug. 17, 1800.
.Xaihaniel Searle. who d. Oct. 20, 1806: she d. Oct. 31, 1817.
6th gen. Children:
1672 Anna Si:arle. b. 1758: m. 1781, Seth Flannum; she d. Sept. 27,
1846; he d. 1814, ae. 57. 4-
1673 Dorcas Searle, b. 1760; m. 1780, Samuel Coleman; he d. 1832:
s. p.
1674 PiiEBE Searle, b. 1762; m. 1784, Benoni Hannum; she d. 1810. 4-
1675 Gideon Searle, b. 1764; m. 1785, Mrs. Louisa Loomis; he d. 1804.
1676 Dr. Jesse Se.\rle, b. 1765; m. Naomi Clapp, b. March 3, 1773,
d. 1830, dau. of Selah Clapp and Abigail Clark. They settled in
Otisco. X. Y.
1677 X'lOLET Searle, b. 1768; m. 1788, Aretus Sheldon, son of Ebenezer
Sheldon and Sarah Strong; she d. 1791.
1678 Esther Searle, b. 1770; m. 1797, Behan Strong, son of Elihu
Strong and wife Thankful Sheldon; he d. 1818, ae. 46; she m. (2)
Edward Porter of Hadley, Mass.; she d. 1851.
1679 Gaius Searle, b. March 1, 1772; m. Nov. 10, 1798, Electa Day
of West Springfield, Mass.; she d. July 25, 1818; he m. (2) 1819.
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Mrs. Jemima Lyman Clark, who d. 1838; he m. (3) 1839, Esther
Pomeroy of Williamsburg, Mass. ; he d. Aug. 14, 1858. +
1680 Xancy Searle, b. 1776; m. 1799, Rufus Searl, son of Abijah
Searl and wife Elizabeth Clapp; she d. Dec. 22, 1861. +
1681 Heman Searle, b. 1778; m. 1801, Abigail Clapp, dau. of Selah
Clapp and Abigail Clark; she d. 1851, ae. 70; he m. (2) 1851,
Sarah Edwards, dau. of Luther Edwards and wife Sarah Sheldon;
she d. Feb. 18, 1874, ae. 84; he d. Oct. 9, 1862. 4-
/th gen. Children of Anna and Seth Hannum, (1672):
16S2 Xaomi Hannum, b. Jan. 7, 1783; d. 1802.
1(S83 Anna Hannum, b. Aug. 18, 1784.
1084 Dorcas Hannum, b. July 28, 1786; d. 1811.
1685 Lewis Hannum, b. Aug. 19, 1788; d. June 15, 1812, South Had-
ley, Mass.
1686 Zelotus Hannum, b. July 17, 1793; m. and had three sons.
1687 Jeru.-^iia Hannum, I). May 19, 1795; m. 1814, Chester Clapp, son
of Joel Clapp and Mercv Pomeroy; she d. July 23, 1882.
1688 Seth Hannum, Jr., b. July 31, 1797.
Children of Phebe and Benoni Hannum, (1674):
1689 QuARTus Hannum, b. Aug. 26, 1785; m. 1811, Jane Rogers, dau.
of John Rogers and wife Jane Stephenson.
1690 Urin Datus Hannum, b. 1786; m. 1813, Sally Sprague.
1691 Phebe Hannum, b. Nov. 5, 1789; ni. 1813, Chauncey Howard.
1692 Alsa Hannum, b. ; m. Friend Knowlton of Ashfield, Mass.
Children of Gaius and Electa Searl, (1679):
1693 Flavius Searl, b. 1799; d. 1805.
1694 C.\LviN Bliss Searl. b. 1801 ; d. 1815.
1695 FiDELLv Searl, b. July 22, 1803; m. Oct. 11, 1823, Dr. Josiah A.
Gridley.
16^)6 Ef-iXTA Si:arl. b. Jan. 5. 1806: m. Julv, 1829, Homer Spencer; d.
April 3, 1831.
1697 Flavius Searl, b. ; d. soon.
1698 Flavius Searl, b. 1814; m. Aug. 29, 1838, Abigail D. Brown of
Brinifield. Mass.; physician, and celebrated for skill in dentistry;
practiced medicine in Springfield; d. there.
1(7)<) Calvin Day Searl, b. July 14, 1818; m. and d. in Ohio.
Children of Xancy and Rufus Searl, (1680):
1700 Pamelia Searl, b. 1800: d. 1802.
1701 Pamelia Searl, b. 1802; d. Sept. 23, 1839.
1702 Anna Searl, b. Dec. 31, 1804; d. Oct. 12, 1820.
1703 HoPHNi Seari-, b. Dec. 6, 1806; m. 1832, Louisa Boleyn of New
Hampshire.
1704 Almena Searl, b. Feb. 1, 1809; m. 1828, James Andrus Thorpe.
1705 Rufus C. Searl. b. Jan. 5, 1811: m. Charles Searl, son of Henry
L. ; lives at Hartford, Conn.
1706 Julius Searl, b. 1813; d. at New Haven, Conn., 1877.
1707 Nancy Searl, b. Dec. 17, 1815; m. Daniel Morgan.
1708 Dorcas Searl, b. 1818; d. 1822.
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1709 Lewis Searl, b. 1821; d. 1824.
Children of Heman and (ist unfe) Abigail Scarl, (1681):
1710 AcHSAH Searl, b. Oct. 18, 1801 ; m. 1822, Gad C. Lyman, son of
Gaius Lyman and wife Tryphena Clark; she d. 1828; s. p.
1711 Jesse Searl, b. Nov. 1, 1803; m. Jan. 9, 1830, Jane Stedman of
^Iancheste^, Conn.: he d. Aug. 25, 1852; descendants now living
at Southampton, Kansas City, and Alaska.
1712 Abigail Searl, b. Dec. 21. 1805; m. 1827, Rufus S. Clark; d.
Aug. 15, 1853.
1713 Harriet Searl. b. June 20, 1808; m. Jan. 1, 1827, Milton A.
Kinney.
1714 Gideon Searl, b. March 5, 1810; m. Almira Betham of Schenec-
tady, N. Y. : gr. Union College, 1830: d. Aug. 14, 1837, Green-
ville, Ohio.
1715 Heman L. Searl, b. July 10, 1812; m. Nov. 30. 1837, Barbary
Schemerhom.
1716 Naomi E. Searl, b. Tuly 12, 1814; m. 1842, Jonathan X. Tudd.
1717 Orissa Moselev Searl, b. April 23. 1816; m. Oct. 2. 1837. Dr.
B. Wells of Utica. N. Y.
1718 Emily A. Searl, b. June 1, 1820; m. 1840. Charles A. Barrows of
Hubbardstown, Mass., son of Francis A. Barrows; children live in
Newton, Mass.
1719 Infant, b. and d. 1822.
1721 Francis N. Searl, b. July 21, 1823; m. Sarah Clark, dau. of
Timothy.
492 CAPT. ABNER POMEROY, (Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Sept. 7, 1734, Southampton, Mass.; m. (1) 1755, Mary French;
m. (2) about 1778, Mercy Sheldon, b. 1743-4, dau. of Noah
Sheldon and Mary Bascom. He had five years service in the
War of the Revolution as Lieutenant and Captain. After the
war they removed to Plattsburg, N. Y. Abner Pomeroy, of
Southampton, joined Captain Lemuel Pomeroy's company as
Lieutenant, April 21, 1775; also, joined Col. John Fellows' regi-
ment as Captain, Aug. 1, 1775; also, joined Capt. John Kirkland's
company, as First Lieutenant, Aug. 16, 1775; also, joined Col.
Ezra Wood's regiment, as Captain, Jan. 26, 1779.
6th gen. Children by isi wife:
1722 Mary Pomeroy, b. Jan. 11, 1756; m. Dec. 21, 1776, Asahel Han-
num; she d. 1837.
1723 Charity Pomeroy, bp. Jan. 19, 1757. +
1724 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. March 29, 1758; m. 1779, Elijah Bartlett.
1725 Abner Pomeroy, b. Aug. 7, 1760; d. 1763.
1726 Oliver Pomeroy, b. Jan. 24, 1762; soldier of the Revolution.
1727 Silas Pomeroy, b. April 16, 1764. +
1728 Electa Pomeroy, b. Dec. 26, 1765; d. April 19, 1767.
1729 Abigail Pomeroy, b. May 2, 1766. +
1730 Electa Pomeroy, b. July 17, 1768; m. +
1731 Cynthia Pomeroy, b. and d. Dec. 21, 1770.
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1732 Cynthia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1772; m. May 3, 1789, John Nichol
of Northampton.
Children by 2d wife:
1734 LucRETiA Pomeroy, b. 1780, Plattsburg, N. Y.
1735 Abner Pomeroy, b. 1782. 1737 Phebe Pomeroy, b. 1787.
1736 Mercy Pomeroy, b. 1785.
483 ELIJAH POMEROY, {Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Aug.
22, 1736, Southampton, Mass.; m. 1766, Ruth Phelps, b. April 6,
1738, Northampton, d. Sept. 24, 1823, Southampton, dau. of
Samuel Phelps and Mindwell Fowler. He was a soldier of the
French and Indian wars. Settled in the northern part of South-
ampton and became a prosperous farmer. He d. there intestate,
Dec. 3, 1792, and an inventory of his estate, amounting to £655,
was filed March 29, 1793, and the distribution (May 16, 1793)
was made to his widow and children, Elijah, Enoch, Samuel, Ruth,
*and Joel.
6th gen. Children:
1738 Elijah Pomeroy, b. Feb. 15, 1768; d. 1793; unm.
1739 Dea. Stephen Pomeroy, b. June 20, 1769. +
1740 Dr. Enoch Pomeroy, b. July 20, 1771. +
1741 Samuel Pomeroy, b. May 13, 1774. +
1742 Ruth Pomeroy, b. April 10, 1777. +
1743 Joel Pomeroy, b. July 13, 1780. +
494 ELEANOR POMEROY, (Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Elhveed), b.
April 11, 1738, Southampton, Mass.; m. Oct. 21, 1762, James
Hulbert, Jr., b. Sept. 20, 1735, d. Jan. 9, 1824, son of James Hul-
bert and Mary Gauslin; she d. April 21, 1823.
6th gen. Children, all b. Northampton, Mass,:
1744 Seth Hulbert, b. July 8, 1763 ; m. March 6, 1782, Priscilla Pom-
eroy, b. June 15, 1764, Southampton, dau. of Elisha Pomeroy and
Priscilla Searle; he d. Feb. 24, 1783; s. p.
1745 Eleanor Hulbert, b. Nov. 22, 1764; m. Mr. Day; she d. March
20, 1785.
1746 Rhoda Hulbert, b. April 15, 1766; m. (1) Erastus Bridgman;
m. (2) Perley Morgan, -f
1747 Rachel Hulbert, b. Dec. 29, 1768; m. Oct. 11, 1787, Elijah Tay-
lor, b. Oct. 3, 1763, d. Aug. 23, 1841, son of Reuben Taylor; she
d. March 21, 1845. Res., Lyons, N. Y. +
1748 Samuel Hulbert, b. Aug. 7, 1770; d. July, 1772.
1749 Moses Hulbert, b. Aug. 7, 1770, (twin with Samuel); m. Miss
Harmon, Easthampton.
1750 Phebe Hulbert, b. July 6, 1773 ; m. Elijah Parsons, son of Elijah,
Northampton.
1751 Achsah Hulbert, b. May 25, 1775; m. 1795, Noah Strong, son
of Enos. +
1752 Samuel Hulbert, b. May 12, 1777; d. March 26, 1860.
1753 Joel Hulbert, b. Aug. 1, 1779; d. April 15, 1855; unm.
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1754 James Hulbert, b. June 29, 1782; d. May 6, 1863.
/th gen. Children of Rhoda and Erastiis Bridgman, (1746):
1755 Clark Bridgman.
1755.1 Daughter Bridgman, m. Oliver Warner.
Children of Rachel and Elijah Taylor, b. Northampton, (1747):
1756 Betsey Taylor, b. Sept. 19, 1788; m. Oct. 31, 1820, Abel Marsh;
d. Aug. 9, 1875, Coldwater, Mich.
1757 Pheodosia Taylor, b. Jan. 8, 1790; m. Calvin L. Palmiter; d.
March 16, 1875, Lyons, N. Y.
1758 Polly Taylor, b. Aug. 25. 1791; d. Oct. 4, 1811; unm.
1759 Rachel Taylor, b. Aug. 12, 1793; m. Daniel F. Smith; d. Jan.
14, 1880.
1760 Ruth Taylor, b. Jan. 5, 1796; d. April 18, 1810.
1761 Sybil Taylor, b. April 16, 1799; m. Charles Parsons; d. Aug. 16,
1883, Batavia, N. Y. ,
1762 Pamelia Taylor, b. Oct. 9, 1801 ; m. Sept. 30, 1822, Ira Wells, b.
July 15, 1794, Cambridge, N. Y., d. April 11, 1882, son of Henry
Wells and Rebecca Collins; she d. Nov. 14, 1891. -^
1763 Elijah Pomeroy Taylor, b. Feb. 2, 1805; m. Jan., 1828, Jerusha
Delling; d, Nov. 21, 1881, Lyons, N. Y.
Children of Achsah and Noah Strong, (ly^i):
\7(A Phebe Strong, b. April 14, 1797; d. Aug. 1, 1869, unm.
1765 Horatio Strong, b. Aug. 1, 1799; d. Nov. 20. 1802.
1766 AcHSAH Strong, b. Oct. 23, 1802; m. (1) Waitstill Root Strong;
m. (2) Chester Morrell.
1767 Frederick Strong, b. Jan. 19, 1805.
1768 Eleanor Strong, b. Aug. 16, 1807; m. Thomas Lyman.
1769 Elizabeth Strong, b. Aug. 1, 1810; m. in 1841, Robert Porter,
Essex, 111.
1770 Jonathan Clark Strong, b. Sept. 1, 1814; d. March 29, 1832.
8th gen. Children of Pamelia and Ira Wells, (1762):
1771 Harriet Hart Wells, b. Sept. 1, 1823, Red Creek, N. Y.; m.
Sept. 25, 1844, Edwin J. Andrews; she d. 1880, Lyons, N. Y.
1772 Graham Albert Wells, b. April 19, 1827, Red Creek; m. Sept
14, 1864, Amelia A. Wells; he d. June 25, 1904, Indianapolis, Ind
1773 Frances Augusta Wells, b. Feb. 25, 1831, Lyons; m. Aug. 14
1854, Jesse C. Wisner.
1774 Edward Bridgman Wells, b. April 12, 1833, Prattsburg, N. Y.
m. Alice Gregory; he d. April 1, 1908, Clyde, N. Y.
1775 Olivia Parmelia Wells, b. Nov. 23, 1836, Prattsburg, N. Y.
m. June 15, 1858, Samuel Newell Dada, b. Dec. 7, 1826, Cortland,
N. Y., son of Lemuel Dada and Merinda Budlong. +
1776 Ira Baxter Wells, b. Feb. 18, 1839; m. Oct. 14, 1879, Mary C.
Wolf ; he d. May 3, 1844, Columbus, Ohio.
1777 Sarah Rebecca Wells, b. March 3, 1843; m. Dec. 9, 1864, Cor-
nelius Van de Vort; she d. Aug. 11, 1879, Phelps, N. Y.
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pth gen. Children of Olivia and Samuel N. Dada, (1775):
1778 George Salmon Dada, b. Aug. 15, 1860; m. Oct. 11, ,
Amelia Hamilton.
1779 Gertrude Merinda Dada, b. Aug. 16, 1862; m. Jan. 16, 1888,
William B. Fuller.
1780 Harriet Elizabeth Dada, b. Aug. 16, 1864; m. Sept. 18, 1885,
Lemuel E. Storms.
1781 William Newell Dada, b. Feb. 8, 1868
1782 Edward Wells Dada, b. Aug. 6, 1873; m. May 9, 1895, Maud
Failor.
1783 Charles Graham Dada, b. July 28, 1875; m. Dec. 7, 1907, Ada
Bergman.
495 CALEB POMEROY, (Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. July
10, 1740. Southampton, Mass.; m. Sept. 20, 1770, Chloe Strong,
b. June 22, 1744, d. 1821, dau. of Aaron and Rachel Strong; he
d. Dec. 19, 1810; military service in the Revolution from Hamp-
shire Co.; joined Capt. Simeon Clap's company May 10, 1777.
Farmer. Southampton, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
1784 Chloe Pomeroy, bp. 1772: m. Oct. 14, 1792, Willard Slack of
Xorthampton, Mass., who d. Jan. 16, 1854, West Farms, Mass.;
she d. there April 6, 1857.
1785 Anna Pomerov, bp. 1774. +
1786 Caleb Po.merov, b. 1777.
1787 Gershom Pomerov, b. 1779; d. 1806.
1788 Sarah Pomeroy, b. 1782. +
496 CHLOE POMEROY, {Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), bp. Nov.
29, 1741; m. Aug. 17, 1769, Simeon Strong (his 2d wife), b.
Dec. 23, 1734, d. Jan. 7, 1820, son of Matthew Strong and Sarah
Sheldon; she d. March 1, 1826.
6th gen. Children:
1789 Simeon Strong, bp. July 9, 1770; d. July, 1772.
1790 Levi Strong, bp. Nov. 24, 1771 ; d. March 24, 1776.
1791 Hannah Strong, bp, Sept. 5, 1773; d. March 24, 1776.
1792 Simeon Strong, b. Feb. 5, 1775; d. May 13, 1786.
1793 Hannah Strong, bp. March 16, 1777; m. 1796, Aaron Rice; she
d. Aug. 6, 1798.
1794 Levi Strong, bp. Nov. 24, 1779.
1795 Joseph Strong, bp. May 2, 1780.
1796 Nathaniel Strong, bp. May 2, 1783.
1797 Chloe Strong, bp. Feb. 27, 1785.
1798 Jerusha Strong, bp. Jan. 11, 1789.
498 ENOS POMEROY, {Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. 1746;
m. (1) about 1767, Freedom Qark, b. 1748, d. 1786, dau. of Capt
Timothy Clark and Freedom Edwards; m. (2) Nov. 30, 1797,
Miriam (Bartlett) Wolcott; he d 1813.
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6th gen. Children:
1799 Enos Pomeroy, b. Oct 4, 1768; m. (1) May 25, 1797, Phcbe
Clapp; m. (2) April 28, 1817, Mrs. Achsah Wright; he d. about
1813, in Easthampton ; s. p.
1800 Sylvia Pomeroy, b. May 5, 1770. +
1801 Hannah Pomeroy, b. 1776; m. Adolphus of Wyoming
county, N. Y.
1802 Dr. Saul Pomeroy, b. Feb. 15, 1779. +
1803 Warham Pomeroy, b. Aug. 29, 1781. +
1804 Seth Pomeroy, b. 1784. +
1805 Freedom Pomeroy, b. 1786. +
Child by 2d wife:
1806 Infant, d. soon.
501 SOLOMON POMEROY, {Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), bp.
Jan. 26. 1752; m. Oct. 6, 1779, Rachel Alvord, bp. Sept. 25, 1757,
d. April 25, 1831 ; settled in Easthampton, where he d. Nov. 6,
1829. It is possible that this is the Solomon Pomeroy who joined
Capt. Solomon White's company from Southampton, May 20, 1777.
6th gen. Children:
1807 Solomon Pomeroy, b. 1781. +
1808 Clarissa Pomeroy, bp. 1783 ; m. 1800, Jonathan Wolcott of South-
ampton; she d. Sept. 15, 1816.
1809 Theodosia Pomeroy, b. at Easthampton, 1785.
1810 Sylvester Pomeroy, b. at Easthampton, 1786.
522 LOIS POMEROY, (Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. May
29, 1749, Southampton, Mass.; m. 1772, Zadoc Hubbard, b. Jan.,
1749, Westfield, Mass., son of Daniel Hubbard (John Hulburd,
John Hulburd, William Hulburd who came to Dorchester in 1630,
to Windsor in 1636, to Northampton in 1657) and Naomi Root.
Daniel changed his name from Hulburd to Hubbard in 1755, it
having been spelled also Hulbert, the change being made after he
located in Pittsfield. He was a soldier of the Revolution. Lois
Pomeroy Hubbard d. 1779, at I^nsboro, Mass.; he m. (2) about
1780, Mrs. Sally (Lobdell) Sprague, b. Sept. 29, 1746, Ridge<
field. Conn., d. Dec. 2, 1838, Chenango Forks, N. Y., dau. of
Joshua Lobdell and Sarah Scott; he d. in 1814, at Aurora, N. Y.
6th gen. Children by ist wife, b. Lansboro, Mass.:
1811 Zadoc Hubbard, Jr., b. 1773; m. Feb. 19, 1795, Mrs. Polly Blos-
som of Lenox, Mass. ; he d. 1823, at Onondaga Hill, N. Y. -H
1812 Nathan Hubbard, b. Feb., 1775; m. June 4, 1801, Alma Belden,
b. Jan. 7, 1777, in Lenox, Mass., dau. of Oliver Belden (Silas,
Jonathan, John, Richard) and Ann Woodruff (his 2d wife) :
he d. 1813, at Middlebury, Vt. ; she m. (2) 1817, David Seymour,
Jr., (who had previously m. Sally Hubbard, dau. of Zadoc Hub-
bard and Sarah Lobdell Sprague); Alma d. in 1828; Mr. Sey-
mour m. (3) Cynthia Holdbridge; he was b. in Norwalk, Conn.,
1772, d. in Lisle, N. Y., 1856. +
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1813 Lois Hubbard, b. June 20, 1777; m. Jan. 4, 1801, Stephen Wells,
Jr., of Lenox, Mass., (Edward, Edward, Thomas, Thomas, Na-
thaniel), b. June 20, 1777, d. April 21, 1846, Brocton, N. Y.; she
d. March 24, 1861, bu. at Hedgesville, N. Y. +
yth gen. Children of Zadoc and Polly Hubbard, (i8ii):
1814 Lois Hubbard. 1817 Polly Hubbard.
1815 Amos Hubbard. 1818 Eunice Hubbard.
1816 Daniel Hubbard.
Children of Nathan and Alma Hubbard, (1812):
1819 Franklin Hubbard, b. Oct. 21, 1801; m. 1828, Maria Eggleston
Seymour, dau. of Ira Seymour (David, John, John, Thomas,
Richard) and Ruth Patterson, b. March 31, 1806, d. 1888; he d.
1865, Davenport, Iowa. Resided in Mercer, Pa.
1820 Chauncey Pomeroy Hubbard, b. Nov. 17, 1803, Pittsfield, Mass. ;
m. Aug. 3, 1831, Mary Wells, b. Jan. 25, 1807, Lenox, Mass., d.
Sept. 8, 1898, Fredonia, N. Y., dau. of Stephen Wells (Stephen,
Edward, Edward, Thomas, Thomas, Nathaniel) and Lois Hub-
bard. (Mary Wells Hubbard was eighth in descent from Richard
Warren and William Brewster of the Mayflower.) Chauncey
Pomeroy Hubbard and wife were original members of the First
Presbyterian Church of Woodhull, N. Y., and he an Elder in the
Presbyterian Church for nearly 60 years. He was a pioneer of
Cameron, N. Y., where he lived fifty years, moving in 1885 to
Fredonia, N. Y. ; he d. April 10, 1894. +
1821 Fanny Belden Hubbaiu), b. Dec, 1805, Middlebury, Vt. ; m. Oct.,
1828. Dr. Ezra W. Gleason, of Boston, Mass., b. 1804, d. Feb.
22, 1853, in ship en route to California; she d. May 23, 1857,
Batavia, N. Y.
1822 Captain Nathan Pomeroy Hubbard, b. March, 1813; he was
for many years a steamboat Captain on the Mississippi River, and
later a farmer at Clinton, Iowa; d. May 9, 1882, Battle Creek,
Mich.; unm.
Children of Lois atid Stephen Wells, Jr., (1813):
1823 Hubbard Ford Wells, b. Dec. 11, 1801, Lenox, Mass.; m. Sept.,
1828, Mary Antoinette Rees, b. May 5, 1806, dau. of William Rees
and Anna Knapp; she d. July 28, 1875, Mercer, Pa.; he d. there
April 17, 1878.
1824 Eliza Wells, b. May 1, 1803, Lenox, Mass.; m. June 27, 1826,
David Smith of Sherburne, N. Y., who d. 1860, at Addison, N.
Y.; she d. June 11, 1845, China, N. Y.; he m. (2) July 11, 1846,
Margaret Ford, b. April 19, 1798, Norwich, Conn.
1825 George Wells, b. June 4, 1805, Lenox; d. there June 10, 1808.
1826 Mary Wells, b. Jan. 25, 1807, Lenox, Mass.; m. Chauncey Pom-
eroy Hubbard. (See 1820.)
1827 Rev. George Marion Wells, b. April 25, 1810, Lenox, Mass. ; m.
June 10, 1833, Lucy Stark, b. March 30, 1808, Rocky Ford, Conn.,
dau. of James Stark and Ruth Yeomans, who d. March 26, 1881,
Unionville; he d. Oct. 4, 1897, Lucerne, Mo.
1828 Luke Wells, b. and d. 1813, Lenox, Mass.
1829 Luke Wells, b. Oct., 1814, Lenox; d. Aug. 1, 1821, Richford, X. Y.
1830 Henry Wells, b. Sept., 1820, Richford, N. Y. ; d. there June, 1824.
8th gen. Children of Chauncey P, and Mary Hubbard, (1820):
1831 Emily Hubbard, b. June 3, 1832, Woodhull, N. Y.; m. Nov. 22,
1881, Daniel Steams Hubbard (his 2d wife) of Syracuse X.
Y., where he d. Oct. 6, 1899.
1832 Ann Maria Hubbard, b. April 27, 1834, Cameron, N, Y. ; m. (1)
July 25. 1871, Rev. David Sanford Morse, b. 1792. d. Dec. 21,
1871; she m. (2) June 17, 1873, Amasa Cooke; she d. Feb. 18,
1905, Pittsfield, Mass.
1833 Adelaid Hubbard, b. Feb. 11, 1837, Cameron, N. Y. ; d. May 14,
1908, Fredonia, N. Y. ; unm.
1834 Mary Adelia Hubbard, b. Jan. 20, 1839, Cameron; d. March 5,
1841.
1835 Rev. Albert Wells Hubbard, b. Oct. 18. 1841 ; m. Aug. 25, 1873,
Emma Roxanna Spencer, b. April 9, 1851, dau. of Judge George
Tilley Spencer and Harriet Stacey; Amherst, 1867; Princeton
Seminary, 1870, where he was ordained a missionary of the A. B.
C. F. M., and went out to Sivas, Asia, in 1873; he d. there April
13, 1899.
1836 Chauncey George Hubb.aW), M.D., b. Oct. 16, 1845; m. Oct. 14,
1880, Florence Nightingale Prentice, b. May 14, 1858, Jasper,
N. Y., dau. of Henry C. Prentice (Jonathan, Henry, William, Na-
thaniel, Henry, Henry) and Amanda M. Keeler. Dr. Hubbard gr.
from the New York University Medical College, 1871 ; settled in
Homell, N. Y., where he has since practiced his profession; he is
an Elder of the Presbyterian Church; was coroner six years, sec-
retarv of the Homell Board of Health thirteen years; has been
manager of the Homell Library thirty years. Residence, Hornell,
X. Y. -f
1837 Alma Rose Hubbard, b. Feb. 22, 1850; teacher, residing in Fre-
donia, N. Y.
1838 Mary Annette Hubbard, b. Nov. 9, 1851; d. Feb. 22, 1853.
Qth gen. Children of Dr. Chauncey G. and Florence N. Hubbard,
(1836):
1839 Mary Hubbard, b. Feb. 2, 1882; d. Feb. 12, 1882.
1840 Chauncey Prentice Hubbard, b. April 20, 1883; m. May 20,
1903, Clara E. Losey, b. 1880.
1841 Harold Cedric Hubbard, b. Sept. 17, 1889; m. July 6, 1907,
Irene Maud Torrence, b. Sept. 3, 1890, dau. of Jerome Bona-
parte Torrence and Elizabeth Ann Brink.
526 LYDIA POMEROY. {Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Feb.
29, 1756, Southampton, Mass.; m. April 23, 1785, at Southamp-
ton, Mass., Ichabod How, b. April 23, 1749, Brookfield, Mass., d.
Sept. 21, 1820, son of Ichabod How and wife Phebe Tenney;
Lydia d. about 1798. Res., West Springfield, Mass.
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6th gen. Children, b, W. Springfield, Mass,:
1842 Lydia How, b. May 6, 1786; m. Jan. 16. 1812, Thaddeus Searl, b.
May 29, 1782, Southampton, d. March 31, 1859, son of Nathaniel
Searl, Jr., and wife Experience (Warner) Loomis; she d. March
12 1857 "+■
1843 IcHABOD How, b. April 16, 1788; m. (1) Nov. 14, 1816, Eunicia
Street, b. Aug. 28, 1790, dau. of Samuel Street and wife Anna
Munson; she d. 1825; he m. (2) April 13, 1826, Lydia Baldwin,
who d. May 27, 1833, dau. of Lydia Searl and William Baldwin;
he m. (3) May 3, 1836, Esther Smith, dau. of Alexander Smith
and wife Elizabeth Hastings.
1844 Joshua How, d. ae. 4 years. 1846 Grace How, d. ae. 5 years.
1845 Phebe How, d. ae. 8 years.
ph gen. Children of Lydia and Thaddeus Searl, (1842):
1847 Elvira Phebe Searl, b. Dec. 7, 1812; m. Sept. 26, 1838, Abel
Phillips.
1848 Theodore Searl, b. Dec. 8, 1814; m. Jan. 30, 1843, Catherine
Gunn.
1849 Lydia Warner Searl, b. May 12, 1819; d. Sept. 18, 1820.
1850 Lydia Ann Searl, b. Jan. 3, 1822; d. Tune 10, 1901.
1851 Mary Warner Searl, b. Dec. 19, 1824"; d. Jan. 20, 1840.
1852 Thaddeus Warner Searl, b. March 2, 1827; d. Dec. 31, 1829.
1853 Henry Thaddeus Searl, b. Aug. 25, 1829; m. March 20, 1856,
Helen Jane Avery of Southampton.
1854 IcHABOD How Searle, b. Dec. 22, 1831 ; m. Dec. 3, 1867, at Ves-
per, N. Y., Jennie Darrow, dau. of Samuel and Nancy Darrow of
Onondaga, N. Y.
1855 Edward Payson Searl, b. Jan. 4, 1834; m. twice; no records
found; said to be living at Springfield, Mass., (1911).
Children of Ichabod and Eunicia Howe, (1843):
1856 Grace Howe, b. May 20, 1819; m. April 12, 1843, Almon Nelson;
d. Nov. 28, 1847.
1857 Joshua Munson Howe, b. June 18, 1821 ; m. Lydia Barker ; d.
Sept. 16, 1859.
1858 Anna Street Howe. b. Sept. 6, 1823; m. March 4, 1852, Dick-
son Fleming of W. Lebanon, Ind. ; d. Feb. 11, 1900.
Children of Ichabod and (2d wife) Lydia Howe, (1843):
1859 Ichabod Howe, b. Oct. 10, 1827; d. Feb. 13, 1832.
1860 Lydia Eunicia Howe, b. April 21, 1830; d. Nov. 19, 1830,
Child of Ichabod and (3d wife) Esther Howe, (1843) :
1861 Eunicia Lydia Esther Howe, b. May 1, 1837; m. April 26, 1859,
Vinson Clapp Searle of Holyoke, Mass.; d. April 22, ISXH.
527 MIRIAM POMEROY, (Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
March 25, 1759, Southampton, Mass.; m. Isaac Lobdell, son of
Joshua and Sarah Scott Lobdell of Ridgefield, Conn.; twelve
years after their marriage they moved to Westerlo, Albany county,
N. Y., where both became members of the Baptist church, organ-
dttttula^^ of tift Pomrrog Jf amilg 25a
ized in 1800, as charter members. The first mills in Albany county
were erected in 1795, at Westerlo by Isaac Lobdell and one Mr.
Baker. Miriam Pomeroy Lobdell d. at Westerlo, Sept. 11, 1802;
he m. (2) Jerusha Lobdell, his cousin, dau. of Joshua and Eliza-
beth Sherwood Lobdell of Salem, N. Y. ; he d. March 24, 1838.
Mr. Isaac Lobdell entered the Revolutionary War service at
Hancock, Mass., in 1778, Capt. Joseph Barnes' company. Col.
Simonds' regiment, and went to Pittsfield, later joining Gen. Wash-
ington's army at Kings Bridge, going thence to White Plains, in which
battle he was engaged. In August of the following year he joined
Capt. Smith's company and marched to Lake George; he was also
at the battle of Saratoga and the capture of Burgoyne's army.
6th gen. Children:
1862 Miriam Lobdell, b. at Lanesboro, Mass. ; m. James Jaycox ; they
adopted a son and daughter of Nelson Lobdell, who had married
Miriam, dau. of Olive Lobdell (her sister) and John Myers; re-
sided in Westerlo, N. Y.
1863 Lois Lobdell, b. Jan. 5, 1784, Lanesboro; m. July 11, 1802, Joshua
Thompkins, farmer of Readsville, b. May 22, 1776, d. 1866; he
was a Quaker, son of Elisha Thompkins; she d. at Chesterville,
N. Y., Nov. 25, 1828.
1864 Anna Lobdell, m. Knight Bennett.
1865 Isaac Lobdell, Jr., b. Jan. 27, 1788, at Lanesboro; m. (1) Nancy
Udell, dau. of William and Margaret (Horgan) Udell; he m. (2)
Lorinda (Chapin) Babcock, dau. of William Chapin and widow of
Josiah Hubbell Babcock of Broadalbin, N. Y., d. Aug. 31, 1857,
Westerlo, N. Y.
1866 Joshua Pomeroy Lobdell.
1867 Olive Lobdell, m. John Myers. +
1868 Princess Lobdell, b. March 15, 1800, Westerlo, N. Y. ; m. March,
1818, Asa Keyes Jackson; she d. at W^esterlo, April 15, 1874.
Jth gen. Child of Olive and John Myers, (1867):
1869 Miriam Myers, m. Nelson Lobdell.
528 GRACE POMEROY, (Joshua, Samuel Caleb, Eltwced). b. May
20, 1761, Southampton. Mass.: m. at Lanesboro. Mass., Simon
Lobdell, b. Feb. 25, 1762; thev moved to Westerlo, N. Y. ; she d.
Oct. 12, 1845; he d. Dec, 1850, both being buried at Westerlo,
where they resided.
6th gen. Children, b. at Westerlo:
1870 Rebecca Lobdell, b. June 4, 1784; m. Sylvester Ruland. +
1871 SiMox Lobdell, Jr., b. Feb. 18. 1786; m, (1) Harriet Blaisdell;
m. (2) Phebe Hurlburt; he was a farmer; d. April 11, 1867.
1872 Jacob Lobdell, b. March 31, 1788.
1873 Gideon Lobdell, b. Nov. 29, 1789; m. Jane Dodge at Freehold,
N. Y.; he d. Jan. 6, 1859.
1874 James Lobdell, b. Dec. 5, 1792; d. Nov., 1797.
1875 Daniel Lobdell, b. Sept. 25. 1794; d. Nov., 1797.
1876 Enos Lobdell, b. Jan. 8, 1796; d. Nov., 1797.
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1877 Lydia Lobdell, b. Dec. 15, 1797; m. William Ingalls; had three
children; she d. and Mr. Ingalls moved to Alexandria, Va.
1878 James Lobdell, b. March 5, 1800; m. Sallie Corvell of Schoharie
county, N. Y. ; they settled in Rock \'^alley, N. Y.. where he pur-
chased a large tract of woodland and constructed a saw-mill. +
1879 Grace Lobdell, b. Jan. 11, 1802; m. Stewart Austin; they had a
daughter, who married and lived at Greenbush, N. Y. ; the mother
lived with her until after she had passed her 90th birthday.
1880 Miriam Lobdell, b. May 26, 1803; m. 1821, at Westerlo, Alben
Ruland, b. June 5, 1802, d. Sept. 8, 1881, son of Benjamin Ruland,
who served seven years in the Colonial wars, and Olive Fuller;
he was a cooper.
/th gen. Children of Rebecca and Sylvester Ruland, (1870):
1881 Eliza Ruland, m. Theodorus Hart.
1882 Julia Ruland, m. Israel Laketon.
Child of James and Sally Lobdell, (1878):
1883 Lucy Ann Lobdell, m. John Slater; he served in the Union army
during the Civil War, and was killed in battle.
529 GIDEON POMEROY, {Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), bp.
June 12, 1765; m. (pub.) ^Iay 3, 1789, Irene Brown, b. Sept. 4, 1767,
at Pascommuck, Mass., d. Sept. 9, 1847, dau. of Rufus Brown and
Jerusha Alexander; Gideon d. May 27, 1843. Rufus Brown's
grandmother was Mrs. Benjamin Janes; she was knocked down
and scalped in the Pascommuck massacre, yet recovered and lived
many years and raised a family; her husband escaped and secured
a boat in which he went to Northampton for assistance. It was
on the summit of Pomeroy's Mountain that the savages left his
wife for dead. Pursuit was prompt and the flight of the Indians
hurried, hence Mrs. Janes soon had relief. There can be nothing
more remarkable in modem romance than these tragic incidents
grouped together: The Janes children knocked on the head at
the Wait farm and one of them recovering to become the ances-
tor of a long line of descendants, and the wife of Benjamin Janes,
scalped and left for dead, reviving on the top of Ponieroy's Moun-
tain, where she had been sacrificed.
6th gen. Children:
1884 Joshua Pomeroy, bp. Dec. 17, 1790. +
1885 Gideon Pomeroy, b. June, 1791. +
1886 Irene Pomeroy, b. March 19, 1793, in Southampton, Mass.; m.
Aug. 6, 1831, Benjamin Hayden of Northampton; m. (2) Phil-
ander Marsh, b. in Montague, Mass., April 16, 1779, son of
Ephraim Marsh and Sarah Mattoon; he d. March 24, 1863, in
Southampton; she d. Nov. 29, 1874, in Southampton; s. p.
1887 Lois Pomeroy, b. Feb. 17, 1795. +
1888 Phebe Pomeroy, b. June 14, 1797. +
1889 George Pomeroy, b. May 1, 1799. +
1890 Jonathan Pomeroy, b. and d. 1801.
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1891 Jonathan Pomeroy, b. May 17. 1803. +
1892 David Pomeroy, b. May 25, 1805. +
1893 John Pomeroy, b. in 1807; d. 1809.
530 JUSTUS POMEROY, (Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Jan.
19, 1767; m. Sept. 16, 1790, Silence Brown, b. May 26, 1769, d.
July 19, 1848; he d. April 15, 1842. They lived in Easthampton.
The grandmothers of both parents of Silence Brown were toma-
hawked and scalped, May, 1704, in the Pascommuck massacre near
the north ridge of Mount Tom, but both recovered. Her Grand-
mother Alexander was Abigail Pomeroy, who m. first John Searle,
who was one of the slain; she afterwards married Nathaniel
Alexander. Silence Brown was descended from Hannah Janes
and Daniel Alexander, both of whom suffered all but death in the
Pascommuck massacre.
6th gen. Children:
1894 Tryphena Pomeroy. b. April 18, 1792: d. Feb. 6, 1880; uniii.
1895 Dea. Spencer Pomeroy, b. May 14, 1795. +
1896 Julius Pomeroy, b. May 6, 1802. •+■
1897 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. Dec 3, 1798. "+■
1898 Jefferson Pomeroy, b. Feb. 11, 1805: d. Oct. 20, 1806.
1899 Thomas Jefferson Pomeroy. b. April 12. 1808. +
1900 Justus Pomeroy, b. Dec. 17, 1810; d. April 21, 1860.
531 PRINCESS POMEROY, {Joshua, Samuel Caleb, Eltwccd), b.
Jan. 19, 1767; bp. Feb. 22, 1767, (twin with Justus); m. April
25, 1793, Solomon Wolcott, b. 1768, d. April 23, 1852, son of
Solomon Wolcott; she d ; he m. (2) 1804, Polly Rogers,
dau. of John and Jane Rogers, d. April 29, 1860. Lived in West
Springfield, Mass.
6th gen. Children, (ist marriage) :
1901 Princess Wolcott, m. Shaler Winchell.
1902 Moses Wolcott. 1903 Amanda Wolcott.
533 ICHABOD POMEROY, {Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed). b,
March 9, 1757; m. Feb. 14, 1782, Lucy Harris, b. Aug. 11, 1759,
d. March 4, 1837; he d. Nov. 13, 1843. When Ichabod Pomeroy 's
family began to multiply he was not content to farm among the
rocks and along the hill-sides of New England, and with his wife
and nine children, he determined to move into the settlement then
called New Connecticut, now the Western Reserve, considered as
being in the far west at that time. He purchased a lot of wild
land in Geauga County, Ohio, and with his family located thereon
in July, 1808. In a history of Geauga county we find the state-
ment:
''Six families located in Hamden township in the spring of 1808:
that Ichabod was a useful and public spirited man in the community ;
and that he usually officiated at funerals when there was no minister.
He put up the first frame barn in 1812. The school was presided
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over by his daughter Anna Pomeroy, who married Anson Pease
in 1811."
6th gen. Children:
1904 Daniel Pomeroy, b. Nov. 5, 1782; d. Nov. 11, 1782.
1905 Ann Pomeroy, b. July 11, 1784; d. July 25, 1786.
1906 Lucy Pomeroy, b. Nov. 29, 1785; m. Mr. Harmon.
1907 Anna Pomeroy, b. April 16, 1787; m. Anson Pease.
1908 Temperance Pomeroy, b. July 12, 1789. -f
1909 Sarah Ely Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1791. +
1910 Ichabod Pomeroy, b. June 28, 1792; m. Lucy Bond
1911 Alpheus Sweetland Pomeroy, b. June 8, 1794; d. June 19, 1803.
1912 Daniel Harris Pomeroy, b. April 27, 1796. +
1913 TiRZAH Root Pomeroy, b. March 20, 1798; d. Aug. 8, 1820.
1914 JosiAH Andrus Pomeroy, b. Oct. 17, 1800. +
1915 Noah Pomeroy, b. Oct. 9, 1802. +
534 GAD POMEROY, (Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. April 22,
1759; m. 1782, Lucy Hering of Westhampton, Mass., b. 1761, d.
1838; he was a soldier of the Revolution, and joined Capt. George
Webb's Company of the Continental army, July 11, 1780, from
Southampton. He d. Feb. 14, 1834.
6th gen. Children:
1916 Russell Pomeroy, b. 1782. +
1917 Titus Pomeroy, b. 1784. +
1918 Gad Pomeroy, bp. 1787. +
1919 Charity Pomeroy, bp. about 1789; m. (1) VVinthrop Moseley;
m. (2) Joshua Darrow.
1920 Clarissa Pomeroy, bp. about 1790; d. March 24, 1812; unm.
1921 Julius Pomeroy, b. 1792. +
1922 Rachel Pomeroy, b. 1793; d. Nov. 5, 1814.
1923 Enoch Pomeroy, b. Dec. 31, 1804. +
535 JOEL POMEROY. {Noah, Samuel, Caleb. Eltweed), b. April 8,
1762; m. Aug. 14, 1796, Mary Campbell of Chester, b. 1764, d.
Aug. 28, 1856; he d. June 25, 1845.
• 6th gen. Children:
1924 Mary (Polly) Pomeroy, b. 1797; d. 1803.
1925 Sarah Pomeroy, b. 1799; d. 1803, like her sister, of scarlet fever.
1926 Wells Pomeroy, b. 1800; m. 1819. +
1927 Joel Pomeroy, b. 1802. +
1928 Jeremiah Pomeroy, b. May 2, 1804. +
1929 Mary Pomeroy, bp. Jan. 25, 1808. +
1930 Sarah Pomeroy, b. 1811. -H
1931 Cornelius Pomeroy, b. 1814. +
1932 Clarissa Pomeroy, b. 1816; d. April 11, 1851; unm.
1933 Rachel Pomeroy, b. 1818 ; m DeGraff, who engaged in
railroad construction; he d. March 19, 1879, in Dayton, Ohio.
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536 DANIEL POMEROY, (Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. April
8, 1762; m. March 29, 1789, Mary Loveland; they were pioneers
from Perue, Berkshire county, Mass., to Thompson, Geauga coun-
ty, Ohio, in 1809; he d. in 1844.
6th gen. Children:
1934 Eleazer Pomeroy, b. Oct 14, 1790. +
1935 Polly Pomeroy, b. Jan. 27, 1793.
1936 Leonard Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1795.
1937 Dolly Pomeroy, b. Nov. 22, 1798. +
1938 Lydiah Pomeroy, b. May 24, 1801.
1939 Altha Pomeroy, b. Dec. 31, 1803.
539 RUBY POMEROY, {Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. 1775;
m. Timothy Seward, who d. 1840; she d. in Northampton of
pneumonia; at the time of her burial the snow was so deep that
her remains were taken in a sled across the lots and over the
fences, to the cemetery.
6th gen. Children:
1940 Alpheus Seward, b. about 1805; he d. probably in Ohio; unm.
1941 Ira Seward, b. Feb. 13, 1807; m. 1826, Phebe Bailey; he d. Feb.
7, 1882; they had a large family, but no details are accessible.
Resided in Knox county, Nebraska.
545 ABIGAIL POMEROY, (Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Nov. 22, 1747, Amherst; m. Justus Williams of Amherst, b. about
1737; she d. Nov. 20, 1832.
6th gen. Children:
1942 Justus Williams, b. and d. ; no dates.
1943 Rachel Williams, b. 1767.
1944 Abigail Williams, b. about 1769.
1945 Chester Williams, m. Sara Howe, in Enfield, Mass.
1946 Zebediah Williams, d. 1798.
1947 Elijah Williams, b. about 1777; d. 1809, at Amherst, Mass.
1948 Mary Williams, b. 1782; d. 1796, at Amherst.
1949 Ebenezer Williams, b. June 17, 1783; m. Jan. 24, 1808, Philo-
mela Dickinson.
1950 Solomon Williams, b. 1788; d. 1809.
1951 Fanny Williams, b. ; m. Dr. Sellers.
546 EUNICE POMEROY, (Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Nov. 24, 1749, Amherst; m. Amos Nash, bp. 1750. Res., Am-
herst, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
1952 Clarissa Nash, d. unm.
1953 Eunice Nash, d. 1790; unm.
1954 Silas Nash, b. Oct. 1, 1783; m. May 14, 1815; d. in Williamson,
N. Y.
1955 LucRETiA Nash, b. 1786; m. Mr. Moody; d. at Rochester, N. Y.
1956 Salome Nash, m. Mr. Moody; d. 1815.
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547 LUCY POMEROY, (Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Jan.
22, 1752; m. (1) Sept. 15, 1774, Samuel Hastings, b. March 1,
1752, d. Oct. 1, 1807, son of Thomas Hastings. Thomas Hast-
ings was b. in Watertown July 1, 1652, (son of Thomas, a physi-
cian; settled in Hatfield, practicing extensively in the neighboring
towns. He died July 23, 1712, ae. 60; m. (1) Oct. 10, 1672,
Anna, dau. of John Hawkes; she d. Oct. 25, 1705; he m. (2) Feb.
14, 1706, Mary, dau. of David Burt of Northampton. She (Mary)
m. May 17, 1713, Samuel Belding. Thomas and Anna had nine
children, of whom was Thomas, b. Sept. 24, 1679, (d. April 14,
1728;, who became a physician in Hatfield, and m. March 6, 1701,
Mary, dau. of John Field of Hatfield. They had twelve children,
of whom was Thomas, b. Jan. 28, 1721. This Thomas removed
about 1753 from Hatfield to Amherst, where he d. Jan. 22, 1787,
ae. 66. He married Mary, dau. of Joseph Belden, who d. July
31, 1801, ae. 78. They had twelve children, of whom was the
above Samuel. His sister, Mary Hastings, m. Simeon Pomeroy,
Lucy's brother.) Lucy m. (2) Martin Kellogg (his second wife).
6th gen. Children of ist marriage:
1957 Waitstill Hastings, b. June 15, 1775; d. Jan. 3, 1776.
1958 Waitstill Hastings, b. July 24, 1778; m. Elsy Shaw.
1959 Elisha Hastings, b. July 31, 1780; m. Abigail Potwin.
1960 Samuel Hastings, b. Nov. 14, 1785; m. Sarah Spear.
1961 Daniel Hastings, b. and d. July 19, 1788.
548 SIMEON POMEROY, (Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
April 24, 1754; m. Dec. 30, 1779, Mary Hastings, dau. of Thomas
Hastings and Mary Belden, b. Aug. 7, 1759, d. Feb. 12, 1814, at
Amherst, Mass.; m. (2) Hannah, widow of Thomas Goodale; he
d. Oct. 28, 1847, at Amherst, Mass. He was a soldier of the
Revolution, joining Capt. Nodiah Leonard's company April 29,
1775; also, June 24, 1775; he also served an enlistment with Capt.
Reuben Dickinson's company in 1776.
6th gen. Children:
1962 Samuel Pomeroy, b. Sept. 3, 1781, "+■
1963 Moses Pomeroy, b. June 26, 1783. +
1964 Jesse Pomeroy, b. Jan. 7, 1785. +
1965 Luther Pomeroy, b. Sept. 19, 1788. +
1966 Simeon Pomeroy, b. March 2, 1791. +
1967 Levi Pomeroy, b. May 8, 1793. +
550 JERUSHA POMEROY, (Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Feb. 6, 1760, Amherst; m. Jan. 23, 1783, Philip Edwards, bp. Feb.
10, 1760, son of Jonathan Edwards.
6th gen. Children:
1968 Jerusha Edwards.
1969 Ira Edwards, b. Nov. 14, 1784; d. Nov. 28, 1805.
1970 AcHSA Edwards, b. April, 1785.
1971 Philip Edwards, b. Dec. 17, 1786.
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1972 Abraham Edwards, b. 1791. 1976 Tama Edwards, b. 1796.
1973 David Edwards, b. 1791. 1977 Jonathan Edwards, b. 1802.
1974 Hannah Edwards, b. 1793. 1978 Hannah Edwards, b. 1804.
1975 William Edwards, b. 1794.
551 DAVID POMEROY. (Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltzveed), b. March
12, 1762, at Amherst, Mass.; m. Sabra Blodgett, b. Nov. 1, 1765,
d. April 14, 1807, dau. of David of Amherst; he d. Aug. 6, 1825.
Res., Amherst, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
1979 Lois PoMEROY, b. March 18, 1787; d. Feb. 27, 1806.
1980 Ansel Pomeroy, b. July 21, 1788. +
1981 Sabra Pomeroy, b. March 23, 1792. +
1982 Almary Pomeroy, b. March 12, 1794. +
1983 Mary Pomeroy, b. Oct. 4, 1796; d. Feb. 17, 1816.
1984 David Pomeroy, b. July 2, 1799. +
1985 Maria Pomeroy, b. Jan. 16, 1802. +
553 DORCAS POMEROY, (Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Oct. 13, 1767, Amherst; m. Oct. 26, 1794, Justus Clark of Am-
herst, Mass., b. Nov. 24, 1765, d. Dec. 25, 1747, son of Simeon
Clark; she d. July 22, 1849.
6th gen. Children:
1986 Mary Clark, b. Oct. 19, 1795; d. Aug. 13, 1805.
1987 Calvin Clark, b. Oct. 13, 1796; d. Aug. 27, 1798.
1988 Lucius Clark, b. Oct. 28, 1798; d. Aug. 20, 1803.
1989 AcHSA Clark, b. June 23, 1802; m. Aug. 4, 1839; d. May 15, 1887.
1990 Mary Clark, b. July 11, 1804; m. Simeon Smith; d. 1885.
1991 Nancy Clark, b. Aug. 27, 1808 ; d. Dec. 24, 1883.
615 EBENEZER POMEROY, (Ebenezer, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Jan. 17. 1741, Easthampton, Mass.; ni. Sept. 3. 1766, Experience
Clark, dau. of Aaron Clark, b. Dec. 9, 1745, d. March 4, 1836; he
d. Sept. 7, 1826. He was a soldier of the Revolution, private in
Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy's company, Col. John Dickinson's regi-
ment; enlisted Sept. 20, 1777; discharged Oct. 14, 1777; joined
the expedition to Saratoga under Col. Ezra May; service 90 days,
including 112 miles travel. Res., Otisco Hill, Onondaga county,
N. Y.
6th gen. Children:
1992 Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. July 6, 1767; d. Sept. 13, 1771.
1993 Experience Pomeroy, b. March 5, 1768; m. 1787, Ira Pomeroy,
son of Samuel.
1994 Stephen Pomeroy, b. April 7, 1771 ; d. Oct. 7, 1774.
1995 Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. June 29, 1772. -f
1996 Lucy Pomeroy, b. 1773 ; m. Sept. 23, 1792, Joseph King of North-
ampton; she d. Jan. 1, 1805.
1997 Stephen Pomeroy, b. Aug. 6, 1775. -H
1998 Esther Pomeroy, b. Dec. 28, 1776; d. June 25, 1802.
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1999 HosEA PoMEROY, b. Aug. 5, 1780. +
2000 Rev. Thaddeus Pomeroy, b. Feb. 28, 1782. +
2001 Libbeus Pomeroy, b. Aug. 10, 1784. +
2002 Walter Pomeroy, b. July 3, 1791 ; d. Jan. 18, 1792.
619 GEN. TIMOTHY POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Eldad, Caleb, Elh
weed), b. Jan. 13, 1750, in Southampton, Mass.; m. (1) Dec. 9,
1777, Phebc Pomeroy, dau. of Caleb and Thankful Phelps, b.
May 24, 1754, d. April 25, 1785; he m. (2) April 8, 1788, Anna
Burt of Northampton, b. Dec. 23, 1756; he d. 1793; she m. (2)
Nathaniel Searle. Resided at Pomeroy Meadows and Southamp-
ton. He was a corporal in Capt. John Kirtland's company, hav-
ing enlisted Aug. 16, 1777. He was a minute-man in the Ben-
nington engagement; and was known as General of militia after
the declaration of peace and the organization of state troops for
home protection against straggling bands of Indians.
6th gen. Children by ist wife:
2003 Phebe Pomeroy, b. Sept. 7, 1778; m. Oct. 20, 1799, Joseph Strong,
b. in 1842 ; she d. in 1838.
2004 Timothy Pomeroy, b. Aug. 13, 1780. +
2005 Paul Pomeroy, b. Feb. 17, 1782; m. Betsey Young of Troy, N.
Y.; moved to Otisco, N. Y., thence to Pennsylvania.
2006 Submit Pomeroy, bp. Nov. 22, 1783. +
2007 Keziah Pomeroy, b. April, 1785. +
Children by 2d wife:
2008 Richard Pomeroy, b. Jan. 10, 1789. +
2009 Rev. Medad Pomeroy, b. April 6, 1792. -f
621 TITUS POMEROY, {Ebeneser, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Oct.
10, 1757; m. 1778, Kesiah Sedgwick, who d. Nov. 19, 1835. They
moved to Rensselaer county, N. Y., in 1781. He served two en-
listments during the Revolution, from South Hadley, as private
in Capt. Moses Montague's company, April 19, 1775, and Capt
Benjamin Bonney's company, March 13, 1777. He d. at Sand
Lake, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1846; bu. at Sliter's Comers by the side
of his wife; the tomb-stones are well preserved.
6th gen. Children:
2010 Demaris Pomeroy, b. Oct. 19, 1779; m. (1) Oct., 1800, Reuben
Huntington, b. Sept., 1778; in Westerlo, N. Y.; she d. there in
1870.
2011 Desiah Pomeroy, b. 1781; m. John Hudson.
2012 Titus Pomeroy, b. Sept. 5, 1783. +
2013 Rev. Jesse Pomeroy, b. Aug. 27, 1785. +
2014 Silas Pomeroy, b. in 1786; lived at Thompkins, Jackson county,
Mich., in 1861.
2015 Asenath Pomeroy, b. 1789; m. Luther Otis of Fredonia, N. Y.
2016 QuARTUs Pomeroy, b. July, 1794. +
2017 Harvey Pomeroy, b. Oct. 28, 1799, at Norwich, Mass.; lived at
Westerlo, N. Y.
2018 Milton Pomeroy, b. Oct. 28, 1799, (twin with Harvey). +
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MERCY POMEROY, (Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b, Oct.
30, 1749; m. Dec. 1, 1770, Lieut. Joel Clapp. b. 1738, d. 1829, son
of Roger Clapp and Ann Munn. He was a soldier in the French
and Indian wars, and we find in the History of Southampton
account of the surrender of Fort William Henry to the treacherous
enemy, in 1757: "J^ Clapp and Nathaniel Loomis of Southamp-
ton, who had been stripped by the French soldiers, escaped naked
from the Indians after a run of fourteen miles through the forest.*'
Lieut. Qapp was also an officer in the Revolution. Mercy d. in
1803; he m. (2) Mrs. Abigail Barnes, who d. in 1833.
6th gen. Children, (ist zvife), b. Southampton:
2019 Cynthia Clapp, b. Oct. 28, 1771, Southampton; m. in 1791,
Oliver Clark, b. March 19, 1768, Southampton, d. Feb. 21. 1855,
son of Elisha Qark and Hannah Bartlett; she d. July 27, 1834.
Res., Southampton. +
2020 Joel Clapp, Jr., b. July 17, 1772; m. Feb. 12, 1800, Tirzey Trow-
bridge of Buckland; he d. Nov. 1, 1837. +
2021 Stephen Clapp, b. Dec. 9, 1775; m. (1) Eunice Qark, dau. of
Oliver; m. (2) Lucy Elwell; he d. 1827.
2022 Hannah Clapp, b. 1778; m. 1802, Rufus Trowbridge of Buckland,
son of Daniel Trowbridge and Mary Taylor; she d. 1803; he m.
(2) Deborah Pomcroy, dau. of Isaac; she d. s. p. Sept. 22, 1876;
he d. Sept. 13, 1865.
2023 Jemima Clapp, b. Feb. 21, 1781 ; m. in 1807. Hezekiah Wright of
Westhampton; she d. Aug. 9, 1862.
2024 Mercy Clapp, b. in 1783 ; d. June 30, 1850 ; unm.
2025 Susannah Clapp, b. Jan. 29, 1785; m. Feb. 18, 1806, Thomas
Rowley, son of Thomas Rowley and Mary Hayes; she d. Sept.
6, 1855. +
2026 Chester Clapp, b. Nov. 25, 1788; m. Sept. 19, 1814, Jerusha
Hannum; he d. Sept. 9, 1862. +
6th gen. Children of Cynthia and Oliver Clark, (20Tq):
2027 Oliver Clark, b. 1795 ; m. in 1827, Elizabeth Strong.
2028 Grant Clark, d. at Augusta, Ga.
2029 Hiram Clark, b. 1801; m. 1824, Eliza Wetherell; d. at Spring-
field, Mass.
2030 Rufus Clark, b. 1805 ; m. 1827, Abigail Searle.
2031 Lewis F. Clark, b. 1812; m. 1843, Nancy E. Sheldon; d. at
Whitinsville, Mass.
2032 Sophronia Clark, b. 1816; m. Clark Bridgeman of Northampton;
d. at Westhampton.
2033 Cynthia Clark, b. 1822; m. Gilbert Bascom; d. at Southampton.
Children of Joel and Tirzey Clapp, (2020):
2034 Rufus Clapp, b. 1800; d. 1803.
2035 Hannah Clapp, b. 1803; m. Atwater Street; she d. April 12, 1834.
2036 EuzA Clapp, b. 1806 ; m. 1826, Julius Boyd ; she d. Dec. 18, 1870.
2037 Rufus Trowbridge Clapp, b. 1813 ; d. 1813.
2038 Joel Taylor Clapp, b. 1814; m. Diantha M. Coe; d. 1880.
2039 TiRZAH Maria Clapp, b. 4820; d. 1843.
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Children of Susanna and Thomas Rowley, (2025):
2040 Infant Rowley, b. and d. 1807.
2041 Erastus Hale Rowley, b. Jan. 8, 1809; m. 1833, Charlotte Taylor.
2042 RuFus Clapp Rowley, b. Sept. 11, 1811 ; m. 1832, Clarissa Strectcr.
2043 Thomas Judson Rowley, b. Dec. 2, 1812; m. Laura Clark; he
d. 1888.
2044 Spencer Allen Rowley, b. 1816; d. Dec. 13, 1864.
Children of Chester and Jerusha Clapp, (2026):
2045 Mercy Ann Clapp, m. William Delaney; she d. 1872.
2046 Dorcas H. Clapp, m. Morris Wolcott; he d. 1872; she d. 1874.
2047 Charles Levis Clapp, m. Dorcas Burt; he d. 1866, in South-
ampton.
2048 Eunice Octavia Clapp, b. Dec. 18, 1823; m. Harvey Dada, who
d. 1861 ; she d. 1894 in Easthampton.
2049 Charity Lyman Clapp, m, 1849, Matthew Delaney,
2050 Susan Clapp, m. Albert D. Searl.
626 JACOB POMEROY, {Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Dec.
13, 1751, Southampton; m. Dec. 30, 1778, Thankful Pomeroy, dau.
of Caleb and Thankful Phelps Pomeroy, b. 1747, d. Oct. 9, 1835.
He was a soldier of the Revolution, marching with Capt. Lemuel
Pomeroy's company in response to the alarm of April 1, 1775;
also, with Capt. Abner Pomeroy 's company April 28, 1775; on
Aug. 17, 1777, he joined Capt. Elijah Clapp's company; also, Sept,
20, 1777, he again enlisted with Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy, each
time being credited to Southampton. He d. Oct. 1, 1842.
6th gen. Children, b, in Southampton:
2051 Elisha Pomeroy, b. Sept. 23, 1780. +
2052 Jacob Pomeroy, b. and d. 1781.
2053 Jacob Pomeroy, b. 1783.
2054 Thankful Pomeroy, b. 1784. +
827 ISAAC POMEROY, (Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Aug.
14, 1753, Southampton; m. Jan. 18, 1781, Deborah Torrey, b. Jan.
16, 1757, d. 1802, dau. of Joseph Torrey and Silence French; he
m. (2) 1803, Irene Parks, b. Feb. 15, 1763, d. 1836, dau. of
Elisha Bascom and Lucy Sheldon, (widow of Nathan Parks). He
was a soldier of the Revolution, joining from Southampton, June
22, 1780, Captain Lemuel Pomeroy's company; also, July 23, 1780,
Capt. Ebenezer Sheldon's company; one of his enlistments is
credited to Hampshire county, May 10, 1777, with Capt. Solomon
Waite. He was a surveyor and farmer; d. Dec. 25, 1836.
6th gen. Children, by ist wife, b, Southampton:
2055 Isaac Pomeroy, b. Nov. 4, 1781. +
2056 Luther Pomeroy, b. Feb. 15, 1783. "f
2057 Rev. Rufus Pomeroy, b. Aug. 17, 1784. -f
2058 Deborah Pomeroy, b. July 24, 1786; m. March 13, 1804, Rufus
Trowbridge of Buckland (his second wife), b. March 27, 1778, d.
Sept. 13, 1863; she d. Sept. 22, 1876; s. p.
drnraUigii of ttfr Pimi»ro]| J^amUg 2BB
2059 Oliver Pomeroy, b. June 22, 1789 ; d. July 22, 1803.
2060 Moses Pomeroy, b. Oct. 23, 1790; d. March 26, 1791.
2061 Moses Pomeroy, b. Oct. 22, 1791. •+■
2062 Angolus Pomeroy, b. Jan. 13, 1796. •+■
Child by 2d wife:
2063 Oliver Pomeroy, b. 1805 ; d. Jan. 18, 1810.
HULDAH POMEROY, {Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. June
16, 1759, Southampton; m. (1) Dec. 20, 1778, Giles Clark, b. 1756,
son of Jonathan Clark and Freedom Edwards; m. (2) 1808,
Oliver Clark, son of Elisha Clark and Hannah Bartlett; settled
in Northampton.
6th gen. Children by ist marriage:
2064 HuLDAH Clark, b. 1780. 2066 Eleanor Clark, b. 1783.
2065 Freedom Clark, b. 1781. 2067 Louisa Clark, b. 1785.
2068 Thankful Clark, b. 1787; m. Jan. 21, 1808, Oliver Pomeroy
Burt of Southampton, d. Jan. 17, 1864, son of Dea. Samuel Burt
and Charity Pomeroy, his wife. +
2069 Rev. Abner Pomeroy Clark, b. about 1790; graduated from Yale
College, 1825; studied divinity at Auburn, N. Y.; m. May, 1827,
Armenia Bascom, dau. of King Bascom and Mercy Clark. He
was licensed to preach by Cayuga Presbytery, Jan., 1827; pastor-
ates in Preble, Augusta, and Ludlowville N. Y. ; evangelist in
Norwich, Chester, Blandford, and other towns.
7th gen. Children of Thankful and Oliver P. Burt, (2068):
2070 Lucetta Burt, b. 1808; m. 1831, Samuel Lyman.
2071 Thankful Burt, bp. 1810; m.
2072 Saul Clark Burt, b. 1815; d. young.
2073 Saul Clark Burt, b. 1820; m. 1841, Lucy A. B. Kingsley; moved
to Ohio.
2074 Electa Almira Burt, b. 1823.
2075 Doris Richards Burt, b. 1825; m. 1846, Charles Louis Clapp.
2076 jAiRus Newton Burt, b. 1828.
2077 Charity Sophia Burt, b. 1831; m. 1853, David S. Adams; m.
(2) Dr. Pike.
ASAHEL POMEROY, (Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. Dec.
13, 1761, Southampton; m. July 17, 1787, Demaris Sprague, b.
1763, d. May 13, 1834; he d. May 5, 1844. Farmer at South-
ampton, Mass.
6th gen. Children:
2078 Mercy Pomeroy, b. July 5, 1788; d. in 1809.
2079 Abigail Pomeroy, b. Oct. 22, 1790; d. in 1808.
2080 Damaris Pomeroy, b. May 10, 1793. +
2081 AsAHEL Pomeroy, b. Oct. 29, 1794. -f
2082 Capt. Aretas Pomeroy, b. Nov. 22, 1796. +
8S4 JOSEPH POMEROY, (Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Elhveed), b.
1744, in Southampton; m. Dec. 27, 1777, Isabel Qark, dau. of
2fid Iffttit a^ntru^n - Mampii
Selah Clark and Eunice Wright of Southampton. Soldier of the
Revolution, joining Capt. Elijah Clapp's company Aug. 17, 1777;
also, Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy's company, Sept. 20, 1777.
6th gen. Children:
^ 2083 Lucy Pomeroy, b. March 11, 1780; d. June 6, 1794.
2084 Joseph Pomeroy, b. Sept. 4, 1782; d. Nov. 10, 1782.
2085 Beulah Pomeroy, b. Oct. 25, 1784. +
2086 Joseph Pomeroy, b. Dec. 30, 1786. +
2087 Barney Pomeroy, b. March 23, 1787. +
2088 Barnice Pomeroy, b. March 23, 1787, (twin with Barney) ; m.
Joseph Abbott.
2089 Isabel Pomeroy, b. 1790; m. in 1818, Adolphus Sheldon; she d.
in 1842.
2090 Abner Pomeroy, b. 1795. -f
2091 Clark Pomeroy, b. 1797. -f
2092 Chester Pomeroy, b. 1800. +
2093 Calvin Pomeroy, b. 1806. -f
2094 Amasa Pomeroy.
836 1-UCY POMEROY, (Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. 1749,
in Southampton; m. June 13, 1770, David Clapp of Easthampton, b.
Sept. 9, 1750, son of Aaron Clapp and Jemima Bartlett; she d. July
20, 1771, Easthampton, Mass. He was killed in the war of the
Revolution.
6th gen. Child:
2094.1 Pomeroy Clapp, b. 1771.
637 AMASA POMEROY, (Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b. 1756,
in Southampton; m. June, 1779, Martha Miller of Brinsiield, Mass.;
he d. March 17, 1827.
6th gen. Children:
2095 RoxY Pomeroy, b. June 11, 1780.
2096 Abigail Pomeroy, b. Feb. 29, 1782.
2097 Martha Pomeroy, b. March 12, 1784.
2098 Nice Pomeroy, b. April 30. 1786; d. May 27, 1789.
. 2099 Asa Pomeroy, b. April 7, 1788.
^ 2100 JosiAH Smith Pomeroy, b. Sept. 26, 1791.
2101 Eunice Miller Pomeroy, b. May 27, 1797. -f
RICHARD POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
Oct. 9, 1771 ; m. April 23, 1801, Joanna York, b. June 24, 1780,
d. Aug. 28, 1841; he d. Sept. 11, 1839.
6th gen. Children:
2102 William York Pomeroy, b. May 27, 1802; d. July 27, 1802.
2103 Nathaniel Leach Pomeroy, b. Aug. 30, 1803; d. Jan. 9, 1828.
2104 Frederick Augustus Pomeroy, b. Jan. 8, 1806. +
2105 Alexander Pomeroy, b. Feb. 1, 1808. +
2106 Ira Pomeroy, b. March 25, 1812; d. May 13, 1812.
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2107 Joanna York Pomeroy, b. Nov. 17, 1813; m. Sept. 17, 1832,
George W. Davis; s. p.
2108 Olive Pomeroy, b. May 3, 1816; d. June 1, 1816.
2109 Ebenezer York Pomeroy, b. July 22, 1817. +
2110 Martha Woodbury Pomeroy, b. June 4, 1820. +
CHARLES POMEROY, {Noah, Noah, Joseph, Eltwecd). b.
April 22, 1749; m. Temperance Watrous of Chester; he was a
Sergeant in the Revolutionary war, and was at the siege of Bos-
ton, in the regiment of Col. Charles Webb; enlisted July 8, 1775.
He resided in Colchester, going thence to Saybrook, where he en-
gaged in business as a merchant; he d. in 1785; she m. (2) in
1791. His brothers adopted his first three children into their
homes, but Noah, who was a posthumous child, remained with
his mother at Meriden, Conn., until he was ten years old.
6th gen. Children:
2111 Charles Pomeroy, b. about 1774. +
2112 Watrous Pomeroy, b. Nov. 6, 1776. +
2113 Vincey Pomeroy.
2114 Noah Pomeroy, b. March 1, 1786, Saybrook. +
806 REV. NOAH POMEROY, {Noah, Noah, Joseph, Elhveed), b.
Aug. 18, 1754; m. Jan. 12, 1780, Rhoda Welles, b. 1755, d. Oct.
29, 1811.
6th gen. Child:
2115 Noah Pomeroy, b. Dec. 2, 1793. +
097 LOUISA POMEROY, {Noah, Noah, Joseph, Eltiveed), b. Sept.
3, 1761; m. Sept. 29, 1782, John Thatcher Otis, b. Oct. 31, 1758,
d. Sept. 1842; she d. in 1840, both deaths occurring at Colchester.
Conn. During the war of the Revolution he joined the American
army at Cambridge, was present at Concord March 4, and helped
to capture Dorchester Heights in the company of Capt. Amos
Jones; he joined the patriotic army again for the Saratoga cam-
paign, and was in the engagement at Stillwater; also, at the sur-
render of Burgoyne.
6th gen. Children:
2116 Sarah Otis, b. May 9, 1784; m. Dr. Simeon Marcy of Ames,
N. Y.
2117 John Th.xtcher Otis, b. Aug. 4, 1786; m. Lucy Tucker Dart.
2118 Louisa Otis, b. June 27, 17^; m. Dennison Smith.
2119 Eunice Otis, b. March 30, 1794; d. Dec. 30, 1814.
2120 Dorothy Otis, b. Aug. 13, 1798; m. Noah W. Bridges of Col-
chester, Conn.
2121 Charles Pomeroy Otis, b. April 22, 1799; Yale, 1829, A. M.;
teacher; principal of Bacon College ten years; "a man of great
worth"; m. Elizabeth Sweetland; he d. Jan. 7, 1857. +
2122 Rev. Israel Tainter Otis, b. July 3, 1805; Williams College,
1828; Andover Seminary, 1834; m. Sept. 12, 1838, Olive Morgan
Osgood, b. March 4, 1810, Lebanon, Conn., dau. of Erastus Os-
271 jrmij (Srnnratiott - Mompit
good and Martha Morgan, d. Oct. 6, 1906. He was pastor of
church in Lebanon. In 1844 he was called to Rye, N. H. He d.
May 30, 1889, at Exeter, N. H. +
/th gen. Child of Charles P. and Elizabeth Otis, (2121):
2123 Mary P. Otis. b. about 1837; d. Feb. 22, 1893, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children of Rev, Israel T, and Olive Otis, (2122):
2124 Charles Pomeroy Otis, b. April 8. 1840, Lebanon, Conn.; grad-
uated from Yale College. After graduation he was for nearly a
year principal of an academy in Fairfield, Vt., and then became
a teacher in Gen. Russell's school in New Haven, where he re-
mained until he entered on a tutorship (Latin) in the college, in
Jan., 1865. In July. 1869, he resigned this office, and spent the
next three years in Europe, chiefly in study in Paris and Berlin.
He then studied an additional year at Yale for the completion of
his course for the Doctorate of Philosophy, which he obtained in
1873. In the same summer he was appointed to the professorship
of modem languages in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
which he occupied until his death. He published a Grammar of
Elementary German, which passed through several editions; and
edited for the use of his classes a number of German texts. He
was peculiarly strong in his friendships, and in his loyalty to every
call of duty and affection. — Obit, Record, Yale College. He m.
June 11, 1884, Sarah Margaret Noyes, b. Aug. 11, 1858, Evanston,
III., dau. of Henry Noyes and Harriet Newell Verbeck; he d. Nov.
17, 1888, Boston. Prof. Mass. Col. Tech. Res., Boston. +
2125 Martha Morgan Otis, b. Oct. 17, 1841, Lebanon. Ct. ; m. R. F.
Pennell.
2126 John Thatcher Otis, b. Dec. 3, 1843, Lebanon; d. May 5, 1848,
Rye, N. H.
2127 Caroline B. Otis, b. May 15, 1846, Lebanon; d. Oct. 2, 1892,
Exeter, N. H.
2128 PIdward Osgood Otis, b. Oct. 29, 1848, Rye, N. H. ; Harvard, A.
B., ^L D.: m. June 6, 1894, Marion Faxon, b. Nov. 22, 1866,
Boston, dau. of William Faxon and Henrietta Cross. Physician.
Res.. Boston. +
2129 Ella Coit Otis. b. March 26, 1851, Exeter, N. H. ; d. there Dec.
7, 1879.
8th gen. Children of Charles P, and Sarah M, Otis, (2124):
2130 Charles Pomeroy Otis, Jr., b. Dec. 24, 1885, Boston.
2131 Henry Noyes Otis, b. Dec. 12, 1887, Boston.
Children of Edtvard O, and Marion Otis, b, at Boston, (2128):
2132 Olive Otis, b. May 5, 1895.
2133 John Faxon Otis, b. Jan. 29, 1898.
2134 Edward Osgood Otis, Jr., b. Aug. 16, 1899.
2135 W1LLIA.M Faxon Otis, b. Oct. 12, 1903.
2136 Brooks Faxon Otis, b. June 10, 1908.
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DANIEL POMEROY, (Daniel, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. Aug.
3, 1750, Lebanon, Conn.; he bought land in Coventry in 1776; m.
April 14, 1772, Eunice Grant, b. April 5, 1754, Tolland, Conn.,
dau. of Ephraim Grant and Esther Parker; he d. Jan. 19, 1777;
she m. (2) Benjamin Risley. Residence, Coventry, Conn. After
her second marriage the family moved to Middlebury, Vt., and
settled on a 200-acre grant. Mr. Risley was Moderator of the
first town meeting, about 1784, and later held other town offices,
and both were members of the first church organized in Middle-
bury. He responded to the Lexington alarm, and was under arms
on that service sixteen days. He is credited to Coventry as a
soldier of the Revolution, private in Captain Clark's company.
Third battalion, Wadsworth's brigade, raised in June, 1776, to
reinforce Gen. Washington at New York; service in New York
City and Long Island. His company was caught in the British
retreat from New York City and suffered some loss, Sept. 15,
1776; he was also engaged at White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. The
r^ment was commanded by Col. Comfort Sage. His enlistment
expired Dec. 25, 1776.
6th gen. Children:
2137 Esther Pomeroy, b. Jan. 7, 1773, Coventry: d. Dec. 7, 1775.
2138 Eunice Grant Pomeroy, b. March 2, 1775, Coventry, Conn. +
2139 Daniel Sterling Pomeroy, b. Dec. 31, 1776; d. Oct 5, 1778.
HON. ELEAZER POMEROY, (Daniel, Noah, Joseph Eltweed).
b. Oct. 24, 1752; m. Dec. 17, 1772, Sybil Kingsbury (sister of
Prof. Olmsted's mother), b. March 9, 1752, d. May 1, 1785; m.
(2) Nov. 25, 1785, Priscilla Kingsbury (cousin of his first wife),
b. in Coventry, Conn., Jan. 21, 1756, d. March 9, 1841 ; he d.
June 16, 1811.
6th gen. Children, b. in Coventry, by ist zvife:
2140 Clarissa Pomeroy, b. Dec. 19, 1773. +
2141 Sybil Kingsbury Pomeroy, b. and d. Nov. 2, 1775.
2142 Eleazer Pomeroy, b. Oct. 4, 1776. +
2143 Wealthy Pomeroy, b. Oct. 14, 1778. +
2144 Daniel Sterling Pomeroy, b. Feb. 18, 1781. +
2145 EuDociA Pomeroy, b. Jan. 10, 1783. +
Children by 2d wife:
2146 Mary (Polly) Pomeroy, b. April 13, 1787. +
2147 Sybil Pomeroy, b. March 2, 1789. +
2148 Col. Isaac Newton Pomeroy, b. March 4, 1791. +
2149 Martin Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. Jan. 17, 1794. +
2150 EuzA (Betsey) Pomeroy, b. March 22, 1796. +
2151 Chauncey Pomeroy, b. Dec. 8, 1800. +
700 ELIZABETH POLAN POMEROY, (Daniel, Noah, Joseph, Bit-
weed), b. May 10, 1755, in Lebanon, Conn.; m. (1) Nov. 17, 1771,
Timothy Rose, who d. July 26, 1794, at Exeter, N. Y. ; she m.
(2) Jehiel K. Daly; resided in Coventry until 1794, when they
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moved to Herkimer, N. Y., thence to Exeter, Otsego county, N.
Y., where she d. May 29, 1840, and was buried in Round Garden
cemetery on the Tunicliff farm, across the road from the spot
where her husband was laid. Tradition asserts that Timothy
Rose and Elizabeth Pomeroy were the handsomest couple that ever
entered the church where they were married. She was a gentlewoman
of unusual energy and vitality, and it is related that when she was
visited by her son Daniel Pomeroy Rose, Sr., and grand-daughter
Elizabeth, as the various visits were made by them among the
other sons and daughters, part of the time she would ride in a
comfortable conveyance with one party, and again she would ride
on horseback that she might better visit with another son, and
thus complete a journey of many miles, although she was more
than eighty-two years of age. Her pioneer life caused her to dis-
approve of plastered walls, she deeming them too unhealthy for her
own rooms. The pewter upon her ample chimney shelf was al-
ways the brightest, and her spirits and love were in accord, as
she held the loving interest and care of her children to the close
of her long and useful life.
6th gen. Children by ist marriage, b, Coventry, except last two:
2152 Abigail Pomeroy Rose, b. Feb. 18, 1772, b. Coventry, Conn.; m.
Josiah Talcott. Lived in Vermont. +
2153 Akiel Rose, b. Dec. 21, 1773; m. Deborah Tilley; he d. March
21, 1858. +
2154 Barbary Rose, b. April 19, 1776; d. Sept., 1777.
2155 Barbary Rose, b. March 23, 1778; m. Oct. 25, 1795, Robert Pat-
ten, b. Sept. 20, 1768, at Holland, d. Aug. 19, 1826; she d. Nov.
18, 1854, at Verona, N. Y. +
2156 JosiAH Rose, b. Feb. 22, 1780; m. Julia Hopkins; he d. Aug. 5,
1859. +
2157 JEHIEL Rose, b. April 10, 1782; m. (1) Deidema Maples; m. (2)
Lavina Sanford; he d. Feb. 5, 1856. +
2158 Daniel Pomeroy Rose, Sr., b. Aug. 6, 1784, Coventry, Conn.; m.
Dec. 20, 1808, at Bolton, Vt., Johannah Webster, b. Dec. 3, 1781,
Newbury, Vt., d. Feb. 18. 1874, dan. of Rev. Samuel Webster
and wife Elizabeth Pillsbury; he d. March 21, 1858; both were
buried in Hill Crest Cemetery, Parishville, N. Y. Daniel Pom-
eroy Rose and his wife first settled near Holmes Hill, in the town
of Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. ; they were recalled to
Bolton, Vt., for a short time but returned to New York and
settled on a farm, since known as the Rose Homestead, at Parish-
ville, St. Lawrence Co., where they resided for fifty-five years,
and which is now owned by one of their grand-daughters, Mrs.
Royal Rouse Doud. Mr. Rose held the office of assessor of his
town for many years; his eood qualities endeared him to all who
enjoyed his acquaintance. +
2159 Epaphras Rose, b. June 18, 1786; d. May 15, 1796.
2160 Oren Rose, b. June 8, 1788; m. Abigail Morgan; he d. Feb. 13,
1845. +
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2161 Alfred Rose, b. June 15, 1790: d. in infancy.
2162 Alfred Rose. b. July 12, 1792; d. Aug. 1. 1793.
2163 Elizabeth Rose, b. June 24, 1794; d. in infancy at Herkimer,
N. Y.
2164 Catherine Elizabeth Rose, b. Xov. 18. 1795: m. Lee Robinson;
d. Herkimer, N. Y. +
7th gen. Children of Abigail and Josiah Talcott, (2152):
2152.1 Gurley Talcott. 2152.3 Timothy Talcott.
2152.2 Electa Talcott. 2152.4 Eliza Talcott.
Children of Ariel and Deborah Rose, (215^)'
2153.1 Timothy Rose. 2153.7 Abigail Rose.
2153.2 John Rose. 2153.8 Edward Rose.
2153.3 Joseph Rose. 2153.9 Lee Rose.
2153.4 Elizabeth Rose. 2153.10 Julia Rose.
2153.5 Jehiel Rose. 2153.11 Amanda Rose.
2153.6 Alfred Rose.
Children of Barhary and Robert Patten, (2155}:
2165 Alfred Patten, b. Aug. 23, 17%, Manheim, X. Y. : m. Xov. 7,
1822, Ann Benedict, b. April 20. 1802, Danbury. Conn., d. Sept.
5, 1875, dau. of John Starr Benedict and wife Martha Stebbins;
military service in the war of 1812; d. June 6, 1873. Res., V^er-
ona, N. Y.
2166 Robert Patten. 2168 Daughter Patten.
2167 Adelbert Patten.
Children of Josiah and Julia Rose, (2156):
2156.1 Alma Rose. 2156.4 Norman Rose.
2156.2 Maria Rose. 2156.5 Martin Rose.
2156.3 Deloss Rose. 2156.6 Alvira Rose.
Children by Jehiel and Deidcma Rose, (2157):
2157.1 Pomeroy Rose. 2157.5 Elizabeth Rose.
2157.2 Fanny Rose. 2157.6 Daniel Pomeroy Rose.
2157.3 Electa Rose. 2157.7 Jehiel Rose.
2157.4 Catherine Rose.
Children of Jehiel and (2d zi'ifej Lavina Rose, (21^7):
2157.8 Ezra Rose. 2157.13 Amanda M. Rose.
2157.9 DiEDAMA Rose; d. young. 2157.14 Lucius K. Rose.
2157.10 Rodney T. Rose. 2157.15 Eliza T. Rose.
2157.11 Mary D. Rose. 2157.16 Cornelia Rose.
2157.12 Laura S. Rose. 2157.17 Sarah Rose.
Children of Daniel P. attd Johannah Rose, (2158):
2158.1 Hon. Daniel Pomeroy Rose, Jr., b. Oct. 27, 1809, Stockholm.
N. Y.; m. (1) Feb. 13, 1834, Henrietta Tichenor, b. Parishvillc,
N. Y., d. Feb., 1855; he m. (2) June 9, 1855, Sarah Hammill, b.
Aug. 5, 1831, Helena, N. Y., d. Oct. 20, 1866; he m. (3) March
27, 1867, Laura Kingsbury (widow of Mr. Fitch), b. June 7,
1831 ; he d. March 15, 1891. Farmer. He was the first Republi-
can elected from his vicinity, in 1856, to represent his district in
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275 JTitUf dtntrutiott - MoBBpi^
the State Legislature. The urgent request of his constituency to
return for a second term was of no avail. He twice served as
supervisor of his town. Res., Stockholm. N. Y. +
2158.2 Parker Webster Rose, b. March 29, 1812, Stockholm. N. Y. ; m.
^ (1) Nov. 2, 1837, Cynthia Putnam, d. 1852; he m. (2) April 19,
^ 1853, Juliana Beecher, d. Aug., 1877; m. (3) April 16, 1879, Cyn-
thia Mitchel, d. May, 1909; he d. May 20, 1897; s. p. Farmer
and manufacturer. In 1852 he was elected assemblyman by the
Democrats, and in 1853 was chairman of committee on Internal
Affairs; also, chairman of the Democratic caucus. In 1872, he was
returned to the Assembly under Republican auspices, having joined
that party at its formation, 1854. During his last term Xlr. Rose
was chairman of the committee on grievances, and the sub-com-
mittee of the whole house, and a member of the committee on
Federal Relations. Again, in the fall of 1872 he was elected and
was again chairman of the committee of the whole and a mem-
ber of the sub-committee on expenditures of the executive de-
partment.
2158.3 Jehiel Rose, b. Nov. 10, 1815, Stockholm, N. Y.; m. (1) Sept.
22, 1841, Elizabeth Storm; m. (2) Feb., 1868, Isabell Walden: he
d. Jan. 27. 1876, Shelbyville, 111. Farmer. He was elected Judge
of the County Court of Shelby Co., 111., and acquitted himself
with ability and credit. At his death his parting words to his
children were: "I would not give a good name for all the riches of
the world. WHiatever vou do strive to be honest and leave an
honest name."
2158.4 Barbarv Rose. b. Sept. 2, 1819, Parishville, N. Y. ; m. Jan. 2, 1848,
Luther Priest, b. March 31, 1821, Parishville, N. Y., d. March 14,
1863, son of Frank Priest and wife Marv Wood; she d. March
27, 1849, Springfield, 111.
2158.5 Elizabeth Rose, b. Jan. 19, 1824, Parishville, N. Y.; d. Nov. 27,
1824, Parishville, N. Y.
2158.6 Elizabeth Fannie Rose, b. Dec. 6, 1826, Parishville, N. Y. ; m.
Jan. 21, 1852, Luther Priest, b. March 31, 1821, Parishville, d.
March 14, 1863, son of Frank Priest and wife Mary Wood; she
d. July 6, 1896. Luther Priest was in military serxice in the
i* Civil War as Captain of Co. E, 106th N. Y. Vol. Inf.. dying in
the service, leaving to his wife the responsibility of rearing and
educating their three little girls, and the management of the busi-
ness affairs of her husband. She secured for her daughters the
patrimony that the troublesome times coincident with the Civil
War had prevented the father from leaving unincumbered; and
her children rise up and call her blessed. +
Children of Oren and Abigail Rose, (2160):
2160.1 James Rose. 2160.4 Oren Rose.
2160.2 Pomeroy Rose. 2160.5 Triphena Rose.
2160.3 Almira Rose.
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Children of Catherine E, and Lee Robinson, (2164):
2164.1 Orin Robinson. 2164.5 Pomeroy Robinson.
2164.2 Barbarv Robinson. 2164.6 Nye Robinson.
2164.3 Reuben Robinson. 2164.7 Alfred Robinson.
2164.4 James Robinson. 2164.8 Carlos Robinson.
8th gen. Children of Alfred and Ann Patten, (2165):
2166 Lafayette Patten, b. Dec. 7, 1823, Richfield Springs, N. Y. ; m.
May 23, 1854, Mary Cowlam Hays, b. April 23, 1833, Savannah,
Ga., dau. of Stephen Savre Hays and Emily Virginia Wolten-
holme; he d. Oct. 24, 1903.
2167 Robert Patten, b. Feb. 2, 1826, at New York City; unm.; d. in
California.
2168 Delford Patten, b. Jan. 21, 1828, at \'erona, N. Y. ; ra. Char-
lotte ; d. at Verona.
2168.1 Barbary Ann Patten, b. May 5, 1837, at Verona, N. Y. ; unm. ;
d. March 28, 1875, at Verona, N. Y.
Children of Elizabeth F. and Luther Priest, (2158.6) :
2169 Lucy Mariah Priest, b. Nov. 18, 1852, Potsdam, N. Y. ; d. Nov.
18, 1852.
2169.1 Adeline Barbary Priest, b. Dec. 27, 1854, Potsdam; m. Nov.
19, 1879, Edgar Allan Newell, b. May 14, 1853, Ogdensburg, N.
Y., son of William A. Newell and wife Sarah A. Miller. Mr.
Edgar A. Newell is president of the Edgar A. Newell Co., (in-
corporated) ; he is also president of the Newell Manufacturing Co.,
which operates two factories, one in Ogdensburg, N. Y., the other
in Prescott, Canada. He founded the Ogdensburg Loan and Sav-
ings Association, and is president of that institution, and has been
for years president of the Chamber of Commerce, director in the
National Bank of Ogdensburg; director in the Loan and Improve-
ment Association of Buffalo, N. Y. He has served the city four
terms as mayor. In 1909 Gov. Charles E. Hughes appointed him
a member of the New York State Commission of Prisons, and
reappointed him for a second term. He is at present (1911)
president of the Northern New York Development League, and
is a leader and hearty supporter of every effort to advance the
industrial and commercial importance of Ogdensburg. In politics
he is a Republican; in religion a regular attendant and supporter
of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Adeline Priest Newell was a classical
graduate of Potsdam Normal School, class of 1876; she is a
member of the Baptist Church; charter member of the first Uni-
versity Extension Club of Ogdensburg; also, of the United Helpers'
Home for the Orphaned and Aged; she is also, by appointment of
the city, a trustee of the public library. +
2169.2 Elizabeth Cynthia Priest, b. Dec. 6, 1858, Potsdam, N. Y. ; d.
there Aug. 29, 1877.
2169.3 Lucy Rose Priest, b. June 1, 1861, Potsdam, N. Y.; m. June 26,
1890, Freeman Harlow Allen, A.M., Ph.D., b. Oct. 22, 1862,
Copenhagen, N. Y., son of Ebenezer Allen, M.D., and wife Susan
Stanton. Teacher in State Normal School, Potsdam, N. Y., 1885-
277 JfitUr <l(^nrratiott - 3o«rtdr
1909; Professor of History and Political Science in Colgate Uni-
versity, Hamilton, N. Y. Res., Hamilton, N. Y. +
pth gen. Children of Adeline B, and Edgar A, Newell, (2169.1):
2169.4 Albert Priest Newell, b. Jan. 3, 1882, Potsdam, N. Y.; gr. Wil-
liams College, 1905; entered Columbia Law School; admitted to
the bar in New York and Missouri. Lawyer at Kansas City,
Mo.; unm.
2169.5 William Allen Newell, b. April 22, 1883, Ogdensburg, N. Y.;
gr. Williams College, 1905, A.B. ; active in athletics, holding botli
college and national records for running. Treasurer and general
manager of the Newell Manufacturing Co. Res., Ogdensburg;
unm.
Children of Lucy R. and Freeman //. Allen, (2169,3):
2169.6 Barbary Allen, b. and d. July 20, 1891, Potsdam, N. Y.
2169.7 Elizabeth Rose Allen, b. Jan. 18, 1895; d. Aug. 20, 1895,
Potsdam.
2170 Newell Priest Allen, b. June 11, 1901, Potsdam, N. Y.
706 ESTHER POMEROY, (.John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. March
21, 1763; m. March 2, 1783, Peter Kibbe, Jr., b. Aug. 23, 1758,
son of Peter Kibbe of Somers, Conn. Resided in Somers.
6th gen. Children:
2171 NoAH Kibbe. 2175 Elois Kibbe.
2172 Esther Kibbe. 2176 Clara Kibbe.
2173 Norman Kibbe. 2177 Wealthy Kibbe.
2174 Amos Kibbe.
2178 Asa Kibbe, b. 1791, Somers, Conn.; m. Lucinda Root.
707 JOHN POMEROY, {John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. May 1,
1764, Somers, Conn.; m. (1) April 26, 1787, Mary Ann Snell,
who d. Nov. 19. 1789; m. (2) April 14, 1791, Sarah Parsons, dau.
of Aaron Parsons; she d. Nov. 13, 1801, at Hamilton, N. Y. ; m.
(3) March 31, 1802, Deborah Foster, dau. of Joseph. He moved
from Somers to Hamilton, Oneida county, N. Y., in 1799, where
he resided until a year before his death, which occurred at Lock-
port, N. Y., July 30, 1851.
6th gen. Child by ist wife:
2179 Daniel Pomeroy, b. July 2, 1789. +
Children by 2d wife:
2180 Jabez B. Pomeroy, b. Aug. 5, 1794. +
2181 John Pomeroy, b. Feb. 5, 1800; d. Feb., 1836.
Children by 2d wife:
2182 Noah Pomeroy, b. Dec. 18, 1802. +
2183 Austin Pomeroy, b. Jan. 23, 1804; d. March, 1877, at Concord,
Mich.
2184 Sarah Pomeroy, b. Jan. 20, 1806. +
2185 Orphea Pomeroy, b. April 4, 1807. +
2186 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. May 17, 1809. +
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710 JUDE POMEROY, {John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. Aug. 20,
1769; m. 1793, Mary Root, b. 1771; at the time of her death,
Sept. 25, 1862, she had made her home with her son Jude; he d.
Oct. 16, 1852.
6th gen. Children:
2187 OziAH PoMEROY, b. Feb. 23. 1794; d. June 29, 1846.
2188 Mary Pomeroy, b. Aug. 1, 1796.
2189 Martin Pomeroy, b. Dec. 28, 1798. +
2190 Lois Pomeroy, b. Nov. 18. 1801 ; d. in 1804.
2191 Lois Pomeroy, b. Sept. 28, 1804.
2192 Jude Pomeroy, b. May 31, 1807. +
2193 John Pomeroy, b. Feb. 10, 1810. +
711 AZUBAH POMEROY, (John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. Aug.
20, 1769, (twin with Jude); m. Jan. 16, 1798, Eli Jones (his
second wife, having previously m. Abigail Pomeroy, dau. of
Ralph), son of Benajah Jones and Experience Northam of Heb-
ron, Conn., he served in the war of 1812; Azuba d. June 20, 1810,
Hinsdale, Mass.; he m. (3) Dec. 12, 1812, Zilpah Crocker, who
d. Feb. 3, 1814; he removed with his family to Chardon, Ohio, in
1820; d. about 1830.
6th gen. Children:
2194 Cornelius Jones, b. May 20, 1800, Hinsdale; m. Aug. 3, 1829,
Orrilla Jones, dau. of Elijah Jones; he was a Methodist minister;
d. Aug. 27, 1835, Hinsdale.
2195 Hiram Pomeroy Jones, b. June 20, 1802; d. Oct. 8, 1803, Somers,
Conn.
2196 Julius Jones, b. Nov. 11, 1803; m. March 20, 1835, Elvira Wil-
cox. H-
2197 AzuBAH Tones, b. July 19, 1805; d. Aug. 29, 1812.
2198 Daughter, b. and d. 1807. 2200 Son, b. and d. June 7, 1810.
2199 Son, b. and d. July 2, 1809.
/th gen. Children of Julius and Elvira Jones, (2ip6):
2201 Almond Jones.
2201.1 Orrilla Jones.
713 HIRAM POMEROY, (John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. Nov. 1,
1773, at Somers; m. July 10, 1796, Ruby Parsons, b. 1775, d. Feb.
11, 1852, dau. of Aaron Parsons and Mary Fisk. He was a far-
mer, distiller (at that time a business of more respectability than
at present), and barrel manufacturer. He was an officer of both
town and church, and for years enjoyed the distinction of own-
ing the only pleasure vehicle in the town, a buck-board, which was
in great demand for wedding journeys, etc. Residence, Somers,
Conn., where he d. Oct. 27, 1841.
6th gen. Children:
2202 Hiram Sterling Pomeroy, b. Feb. 1, 1797. +
2203 Oren Pomeroy, b. Feb. 17, 1799. +
2204 Warren Pomeroy, b. 1801. +
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2205 Ruby Pomeroy, b. Feb. 1, 1803; d. unm.
2206 Chester Pomeroy, b. 1805. +
2207 Harriet Pomeroy, b. 1807. +
2208 George Pomeroy, d. in infancy.
2209 Laura Pomeroy, b. 1811. +
2210 Chauncey Pomeroy, b. Nov. 27, 1813. +
2211 Mary Pomeroy, b. May 12, 1815. +
2212 Daniel Burbank Pomeroy, b. June 8, 1817. +
2213 Noah Pomeroy, b. Dec. 29, 1819; m. June 13, 1843, Jane Parker
of Wolcott; s. p. He was a manufacturer of clocks in Bristol,
Conn., for thirty-five years. Residence, Hartford, Conn.
2214 Miranda Pomeroy, b. Nov. 16, 1823. +
714 AMMITTAI pomeroy, (John. NoaK Joseph, Eltu^ccd), b.
Sept. 17, 1776, Somers, Conn.; m. Dec. 9, 1803, Samuel Arnold,
b. April 14, 1780, Ludlow, Mass., d. July 19, 1845, son of Samuel
Arnold and Dorcas Hubbard (dau. of Deacon John Hubbard of
Ellington, Conn.) ; Samuel Arnold, Sr., was selectman of Ludlow,
and town clerk 1783-5, and 1788; Ammittai Pomeroy Arnold d.
Jan. 3, 1858.
6th gen. Children:
2215 Emmons Arxold; m. (1) ; + m. (2) Widow Skinner,
s. p. by her.
2216 Amanda Arnold; m. Henry Glover; s. p.
2217 Enos Arnold; m. (1) Miss Endicott; -f m. (2) Miss Abbe of
Enfield, Conn.; m. (3) Mrs. Thompson of Somers.
2218 Maria Arnold; m. Robert Pease; d. at the birth of twins.
2219 Ansel Arnold, b. Aug. 8, 1814, Somers, Conn.; m. (1) April 26,
1842, Elizabeth Barrows; m. (2) Nov. 22, 1871, Maria Pitkin
Chapman, dau. of Horace Chapman (Parley, Jabez, Jabez, Jona-
than, Robert, Robert, Robert the settler) and Julia Ann Bartlett
Tiffany, (Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Thomas, Humphrey the
original settler) ; he d. Aug. 6, 1899. He was for many years one
of the prominent men of Willimantic, Conn., and was elected to
the General Assembly twice; first President of the Willimantic
Board of Trade, and a director in numerous financial and indus-
trial institutions throughout Connecticut. +
Jth gen. Children of Emmons Arnold and 1st zvife, (221^):
2220 Emily Arnold. 2222 Jane Arnold.
2221 Theodore Arnold. 2223 Eva Arnold.
Children of Enos Arnold and ist zvife, (221^):
2224 Emma Arnold. 2227 Ella Arnold.
2225 Ellen Arnold. 2228 C. Augustus Arnold.
2226 Albert Arnold.
Children of Ansel and Maria P. Arnold, (22ig):
2229 Judge William A. Arnold, b. May 5, 1874, Willimantic, Conn.;
m. May 22, 1901, Kate Warner Hutchinson, dau. of John Ira
Hutchinson and Cynthia Starkey; her father, John Ira Hutchin-
son, (Dr. Ira, John, Jonathan, Joseph, John, Ralph the original
(SrttraUigg of % Pomrrng 9amtig 2B0
settler), was for years prominent in Connecticut politics, having
been elected to the General Assembly several times from his home
town of Essex; sheriff of Middlesex County for twenty years;
also, U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the states of Con-
necticut and Rhode Island. Judge Arnold graduated from Yale
University in 1896, with the degree of B.A., and from the Yale
Law School, 1899; admitted to the bar in 1898; admitted also to
practice in United States Courts; Judge of the City Court of
Willimantic since 1901 ; member of the law firm of Clark & Ar-
nold, Hartford, Conn.; s. p.
2230 Louis Horace Arnold, b. Sept. 23, 1880, Willimantic, Conn.; m.
Oct. 6, 1908, Edith E. Collins of Quincy, 111., dau. of William H.
Collins and Emily Cotton; s. p.
715 MARY (POLLY) POMEROY, (Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. Nov. 15, 1760, at Somers, Conn.; m. June 28, 1781,
Amos Kellogg of Colchester, Conn., b. Aug. 5, 1758, d. April 14,
1814, son of Israel Kellogg and Abigail Northam; she d. Sept.
28, 1841, Colchester.
6th gen. Children, b, in Colchester, except Enos:
2231 Amos Kellogg, b. June 5, 1782; d. in the fall of 1820.
2232 Polly Kellogg, b. Feb. 2, 1784.
2233 Elam Kellogg, b. Dec. 30, 1786; m. Feb. 6, 1817, Lura Hall, b.
Sept. 6, 1789, Vernon, Conn., d. March 29, 1864, dau. of George
Hall and Lura Lathrop; he d. Oct. 21, 1871, Somers, Conn. Far-
mer and carpenter. +
2234 Abigail Kellogg, b. Feb. 26, 1791 ; d. Aug. 28, 1874.
2235 Israel Kellogg, b. Nov. 17, 1792; m. Jerusha Pease of Somers,
b. July 30, 17%, d. Aug. 26, 1872; he d. March 29, 1868. +
2236 Charles Kellogg, b. Jan. 14, 1795; m. May 28, 1817, Mary Olm-
stead, b. June, 1797, Enfield, Conn., d. Feb. 14, 1861, dau. of
Simeon Olmstead and Abigail Collins; he d. Oct. 14, 1880. +
22i7 Enos Kellogg, b. Feb. 2, 1798, Somers, Conn.; m. Nov. 5, 1829,
Elizabeth Patton, b. Sept. 1, 1806, Stafford, Conn., dau. of Na-
thaniel Patton and Eunice Pomeroy, (Joshua), d. June 28, 1862;
he d. Feb. 25, 1879, Somers, Ct. +
/rth gen. Children of Elam and Laura Kellogg, b. Somers, (^^33) :
2238 Henry Kellogg, b. Nov. 9, 1817; d. Aug. 30, 1877.
2239 Elam Wells Kellogg, b. Dec. 30, 1820; d. Oct. 18, 1846.
2240 Eliza Kellogg, b. Oct. 17, 1823; d. Feb. 10, 1853.
2241 Laura Hall Kellogg, b. Nov. 20, 1829.
2242 Amos Sterling Kellogg, b. May 9, 1831.
Children of Israel and Jerusha Kellogg, b. West Springfield,
(^^35)'
2243 Delia Kellogg, b. March 6, 1820; d. Nov. 15, 1862. .
2244 Maria Fuller Kellogg, b. April 8, 1822; d. Feb. 18,. 1825.
2245 Giles Pease Kellogg, b. Nov. 15, 1823; d. May 27, 1892.
2246 Theodore Pitkin Kellogg, b. Jan. 5, 1827; d. July 27, 1908.
2247 Lorenzo Kellogg, b. Jan. 22, 1829.
2248 Edwin Pomeroy Kellogg, b. Nov. 24, 1830; d. Oct. 19, 1902.
2249 Julius Augustus Kellogg, b. Oct. 7, 1834; d. Dec. 11, 1901.
2250 William Kellogg, b. March 23, 1837.
Children of Charles and Mary Kellogg, (2236):
2251 Mariva Kellogg, b. March 2, 1818; d. young.
2252 Simeon Kellogg, b. Aug. 7, 1821; d. young.
2253 Simeon Olmstead Kellogg, b. Aug. 11, 1823, Greenwich, Mass.
2254 Mariva Kellogg, b. Dec. 31, 1829, Berlin, Ohio.
2255 Everton Judson Kellogg, b. May 19, 1832.
2256 Charles Kellogg, b. Dec. 11, 1835; d. March, 1847.
Children of Enos and Elizabeth Kellogg, b. Somers, Conn.,
(2237)'
2257 Charles Hyde Kellogg, b. June 9, 1831 ; d. Dec. 4, 1832.
2258 May Elizabeth Kellogg, b. July 5, 1833.
2259 Charles Otis Kellogg, b. Aug. 15, 1836.
2260 George Reynolds Kellogg, b. Oct. 11, 1838.
716 ELIZABETH POMEROY, Uoshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
Sept. 19, 1763, Somers, Ct; m. Sept. 23, 1784, Joseph Root of
Somers, Ct., b. 1753, d. Sept. 29, 1825, son of Timothy Root
(Timothy, Thomas, John, John of Badby, Northamptonshire, Eng-
land) and wife Jemima Wood. Military service, four years in
the Revolution, joining iirst from Roxbury. He was present at
the battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) and the burning of
Charlestown; also, at the engagement which forced the surrender
of General Burg03me. Lived at Somers, where she d. Oct. 16, 1825.
6th gen. Children:
2261 Caroline Root, b. June 21, 1785.
2262 Luther Root, b. April 24, 1787; m. Dec. 1, 1816, Betsey Steven-
son, b. May 13, 1786, at Enfield, Mass., d. Nov. 10, 1853, dau. of
Isaac Stevenson and Thankful Savage; he d. Sept. 4, 1853. Far-
mer. Greenwich, Mass. +
2263 Capt. John Root, b. March 17, 1789; m. March 31, 1816, Lucy
Reynolds, b. Nov. 6, 1789, at Somers, d. Jan. 28, 1871, dau. of
Samuel Reynolds and Lucy Pitkin; settled at Greenwich, Mass.,
and d. there Feb. 6, 1855. Farmer. +
2264 Harvey Root, b. April 20, 1791; m. Jan. 31, 1821, Mary Palmer;
he d. March, 1850. +
2265 Elizabeth Root, b. 1793; m. Spencer Smith, b. at Amherst; she
d. 1824. +
2266 LuciNDA Root, b. June 11, 1797; m, Asa Kibbe of Somers, Ct.;
she d. June 14, 1868. +
2267 SoPHRONiA Root, (twin with Lucinda), b. June 11, 1797; m.
David Holmes; she d. May 21, 1835. Lived in StaflFord, Ct.
2268 Chester Root, b. June 14, 1800, at Somers; m. Margaret Ellen
McGlowe of Berlin Heights, Ohio, b. 1815, in Seneca County,
N. Y. +
2269 Sumner Root, b. July 14, 1803, at Somers, Ct; m. (1) March,
1826, Mary Pease of Enfield, Ct.; m. (2) Anna C. Davis; m. (3)
(Smraiosg of tift Prntmrnn JTamUg 2B2
Sophronia Pease, dau. of Deacon Jonathan Pease of Enfield, Ct.
Lived at the old homestead of his great-grandparents, Somers, Ct.
yth gen. Children of Luther and Betsey Root, (2262):
2270 LucRETiA Root, b. Nov. 24, 1817; d. July 4, 1844, at Greenwich,
Mass.
2271 Charles S. Root, b. March 6, 1820; m. Rowena S. Bassett at
Dover, Vt. ; he d. Aug. 22, 1859, at Springfield, Mass. +
2272 Sylvester Franklin Root, b. Oct. 28, 1828; m. May 1, 1855,
Lydia Maria Woods, b. Oct. 8, 1834, at West Brookfield, Mass.,
d. April 25, 1909, dau. of Alvin Woods and wife Sarah Nichols;
he d. Oct. 6, 1901. Military service, Sergeant of Co. I, 52d Mass.
Vol. Inf. Mercantile business. Lived at Sidney, Ohio. +
Children of John and Lucy Root, b, Greenwich, Mass,, (2263) :
2273 John Reynolds Root, b. Feb. 5, 1817; m. March 7, 1843, Maria
Emily Tuttle ; he d. July 26, 1844, at South Hadley Falls, Mass. +
2274 Lucy Elizabeth Root, b. Nov. 22, 1820; d. Feb. 7, 1845, at Green-
wich.
2275 jABEz Backus Root, b. Jan. 22, 1822; m. May 25, 1846, Ursula
Maria Alden, b. Nov. 4, 1823, d. July 18, 1891, dau. of Capt. Abel
Alden and Eveline Thompson; he d. July 12, 1892. Building con-
tractor and mover. Residence, Greenwich, .Mass.
2276 Thomas Pitkin Root, b. July 8, 1824; m. April 23, 1851, Seraph
Marsh Haynes; m. (2) Nov. 22, 1871, Sophronia Bailey; he was
deacon of the Congregational Church, and superintendent of pub-
lic schools, Barre, Mass.; he d. there May 24, 1910. +
2277 Hon. Joseph Pomeroy Root, b. April 23, 1826; m. Sept. 10, 1851,
Frances Eveline Alden, b. at Greenwich, dau. of Capt. Abel Alden
and wife Eveline Thompson, (she a descendant of John Alden of
the Mayflower) ; he d. Aug. 19, 1885. He was graduated from
Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Mass., 1850; settled in New
Hartford, Conn., 1851 ; m. Sept. 9, 1851, Frances Eveline Alden
of Greenwich, Mass. Joseph Pomeroy Root was a member of the
Connecticut State Legislature in 1855, elected on the Whig ticket;
he went to Kansas in 1856 with the New Haven colony, locating
at Wabaunsee. He immediately became active in the Free State
cause, and was taken prisoner by Atchison and the "border ruf-
fians." He was in Lawrence when the city was sacked and burned ;
and in Topeka July 4, when the Legislature was dispersed, at
which time he was a member of the New State Central Commit-
tee, and subsequently chairman of the Executive Committee, that
being the highest authority recognized by the parties of those times.
He was elected for two years to the Territorial Council from
Wyandotte, where he settled in 1857. He was elected the first
Lieutenant-Governor of Kansas, and was acting Governor in 1861.
He resigned this position to enter the Union army as Surgeon
when the Civil War commenced, and served throughout the war
with the Army of the Frontier. In 1869, he was appointed by Pres-
ident Grant, Minister to Chili, South America. The Chilian govern-
ment bestowed honorary degrees and medals upon him for his
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voluntary labors in the hospitals during the small-pox epidemic of
1873. In 1884, he was delegate to the Republican National Con-
vention at Chicago, 111. He d. Aug. 19, 1885. +
2278 Jerusha Williams Root (twin with Joseph), b. April 23, 1826;
d. Nov. 26, 1841.
2279 Samuel Newell Root, b. Sept. 22, 1828; professor of music; d.
April 2, 1853, at Columbia, Tenn.
Children of Harvey and Mary Root, (2264):
2280 Lucy Root, b. Feb. 16, 1822, at Somers, Ct.; m. July 27, 1843,
Hinsdale Smith, son of Soreno Smith of Hadley, Mass.
2281 Julia Ripley Root, b. Oct. 11, 1824; d. Sept. 13, 1831.
2282 Abia Pomeroy Root, b. April 11, 1830; m. Dec. 7, 1854, Samuel
W. Strong, son of Rev. William L. Strong of Fayetteville, N. Y.
Child of Elizabeth and Spencer Smith, (2265):
2283 Ellsworth Smith, m. and had children.
Children of Lucinda and Asa Kibbe, (2266):
2284 Lucinda Kibbe. 2286 Mary Kibbe.
2285 Henry Kibbe.
Children of Chester and Margaret E, Root, (2268) :
2287 Harvey Root, b. Nov. 13, 1837, at Berlin Heights, Ohio; mili-
tary service in Civil War, private, Co. E, 4th Mich. Vol. Inf.,
Watrousville, Mich.; d. at Craney Island Hospital, Aug. 21, 1862.
2288 Margaret Ellen Root, b. Aug. 5, 1839, at Berlin Heights, Ohio;
m. Sept. 18, 1864, J. Warren Rogers, who d. Aug. 25, 1867; she
m. (2) Nov, 13, 1877, Adnez L. Forbes.
2289 Calvin Root, b. Oct. 20, 1841, at Berlin Heights; m. Ella Walters
of Clarkston, Mich. Res., Vassar, Mich.
2290 John Luther Root, b. Sept. 22, 1846, at Litchfield, Ohio; m.
Christie Stark of Reese, Mich. Res., East Saginaw, Mich.
2291 Jason Root, b. April 23, 1852, at Clarksfield, Ohio; m. Mary
Coleman, at Watrousville, Mich. Res., Cairo, Mich.
2292 Ida Abiah Root, b. Feb. 7, 1859, at Clarksfield, Ohio; m. in 1890,
W. J. P. McFail; she d. May 2, 1905, at Saginaw, Mich.
Children of Sumner and Mary P, Root, (2269):
2293 Sumner C. Root. 2293.1 Rodolphia K. Root.
2294 Mary E. Root; m. March 17, 1852, William S. Arms of South
Deerfield, Mass.
Children of Sumner and (2d wife) Anna Root:
2295 Ellen S. Root. 2296 Henry A. Root.
Children of Sumner and (3d wife) Sophronia Root:
2297 Adrian A. Root, d. ae. 2 years.
2298 Alonzo D. Root. 2300 Child, d. in infancy.
2299 Laura Amelia Root.
8th gen. Children of Charles S. and Rozvena S, Root, (2271):
2301 Amy L. Root, b. Oct., 1855 ; d. July 20, 1857.
2302 Charles E. Root, b. July 24, 1858 ; d. young.
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Children of Sylvester F. and Lydia Woods Root, (2^72) :
2303 Eliza Lucretia Root, b. Dec. 25, 1856, Greenwich, Mass.; m.
Sept. 22, 1885, James McKercher, b. Nov. 2, 1839, MontviUe,
Ohio, son of Peter McKercher and Margery McNaughton. Mrs.
McKercher is a member of the National Society, D. A. R., No.
68,732. Res., Seattle, Wash. No children.
2304 Alice Eugenia Root, b. March 27, 1859, Greenwich, Mass.; m.
March 9, 1881, Leroy Michael, b. July 22, 1855, son of Dewitt
Clinton Michael and Hannah Elizabeth Robinson. Res., Sidney,
Ohio. +
2305 Luther Woods Root, b. June 3, 1871, Greenwich; d. Feb. 21,
1890, at Sidney, Ohio.
2306 Julia Le Dora Root, b. July 30, 1872, at Sidney, Ohio; d. there
April 24, 1873.
pth gen. Children of Alice Eugenia and Leroy Michael, (2304) :
22IQ7 Amy Elizabeth Michael, b. Oct. 6, 1884, Sidney, Ohio.
2308 Helen Woods Michael, b. Dec. 11, 1886, Sidney.
2309 John Arnold Michael, b. Feb. 1, 1889, Sidney.
718 CAPT. SAMUEL POMEROY, {Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed),
b. Feb. 2, 1767; m. Dec, 1796, Catherine Day of West Spring-
field, Mass., b. June 14, 1772, d. March 31, 1838; m. (2) Sarah
Chapin (widow of Franklin). He was a school-teacher and far-
mer. Resided in the old Pomeroy homestead in Somers, Conn.
6th gen. Children:
2310 Catherine Pomeroy, b. Oct. 10, 1797; d. Feb. 28, 1861; unm.
2311 LuciNDA Pomeroy, b. May 19, 1801; m. Dec. 31, 1822, Oren
Pomeroy, son of Hiram and Ruby Parsons Pomeroy; she d.
May, 1887.
2312 Noah Pomeroy, d. in infancy.
2313 Charles Backus Pomeroy, bp. Nov. 23, 1806. +
2314 Samuel Pomeroy, b. April 29, 1812. ^-
2315 Mary Day Pomeroy, b. 1818; unm.
719 EUNICE POMEROY, (Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. Dec.
11, 1769; m. Sept. 29, 1796, Nathaniel Patten, b. April 9, 1766,
in Stafford, Conn., d. Dec. 17, 1816, son of Nathaniel Patten and
Esther Shed.
6th gen. Children, b. in Somers, Conn.:
2316 Nathaniel Patten, b. July 22, 1797; d. March, 1880; unm.
2317 William Patten, b. July 17, 1799; m. Jan. 12, 1826, Lucretia
Holmes, dau. of David, d. Feb. 3, 1879; he d. Nov. 14, 1856. Re-
sided in Somers. +
2318 Eunice Patten, b. Nov. 23, 1801; m. Nov. 25, 1823/ George Rey-
nolds; she d. Oct. 9, 1837. Resided in Longmeadow,^ Mass. +
2319 Makv Patten, b. May 16, 1804; m. May 27, 1825, Henry Allen,
b. in Enfield, Ct, Jan. 15, 1803, d. July 13, 1867, son of George
Allen and Betsey Rich. +
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2320 Elizabeth Patten, b. Sept. 1, 1806; m. Nov. 25, 1829, Enos
Kellogg, b. Feb. 2, 1798, d. Feb. 26, 1879; she d. about 1871. Re-
sided in Somers until 1849, when they moved to Oneida, N. Y.,
and joined the Oneida Community. +
2321 LuciNDA Patten, b. Jan. 19, 1809; m. Jan. 17, 1830, Eber Patten,
b. Oct. 19, 1801, d. Aug. 12, 1844, son of Asa Patten and Asenath
Smith; she d. Sept. 1, 1840. +
2322 Justus Patten, b. Nov. 23, 1812; m. 183'', Abigail M. Dickinson;
for many years he was at the head of the repair and building
force at Mount Holyoke Ladies' Seminary at South Hadley, Mass.,
where he d. Aug. 17, 1865. +
yth gen. Children of WUliam and Lucretia Patten, b, Somers,
(^3^7)-'
2323 Nathaniel Andrew Patten, b. April 17, 1828; m. Mary E.
Langdon; d. April 2, 1902.
2324 William Alonzo Patten, b. June 25, 1833 ; m. Marietta S. Kibbe.
2325 Julia Ann Patten, b. April 30, 1837; m. Albert F. Allen; d.
Dec. 7, 1887.
Children of Eunice and George Reynolds, (2318):
2326 Emily Reynolds, b. about 1824; m. Rev. Simeon Howard Cal-
houn, D. D. ; he was missionary to Beirut, Syria; five children.
2327 Helen Reynolds, b ; m. Dea. Albert Parsons ; she d. about
1868; four children. Res., Enfield, Conn.
2328 LuciNDA Reynolds, m. Edward Colton; five children. Res.,
Longmeadow, where he was postmaster.
2329 Maky Reynolds, m. George C. Stearns; five sons. Res., Buffalo,
N. Y.
2330 Henrietta Reynolds; unm. Res., Longmeadow, Mass.
2331 Eliza Reynolds, m. Mr. Ward. Res., New Haven, Conn.
Children of Mary and Henry Allen, b. Enfield, Conn., (2^19):
2332 Ann Elizabeth Allen, b. 1826; m. March 30, 1869, Calvin In-
galls Thompson, who d. July 1, 1880; she m. (2) Arnold;
she d. March, 1800, s. p. Res., Somers, Conn.
2333 Henry Pomerov Allen, b. Dec. 21, 1827; m. April 18, 1855,
Mary Falconer, who d. Feb. 25, 1899; he d. April 17, 1898; three
children. Res., Enfield, Conn.
2334 Horace Bolivar Allen, b. Feb. 8, 1830; m. June 3, 1852, Mary
Ann Bancroft, dau. of Alfred Bancroft and Mary Rudd; she d.
May 14, 1892 ; he d. April 28, 1903 ; fourteen children.
2335 Mary Jane Allen, b. June 18, 1833; m. April 12, 1854, Horace
Patten, son of Benjamin Patten and Sally Wells of Stafford,
Conn.; two children. Res., Enfield, Conn. +
2336 LuciNDA Patten Allen, b. Sept. 5, 1835; m. Dec, 24, 1857,
Larone Hills, son of Solomon Hills; he d. May 19, 1883; she m.
(2) July 23, 1883, Luther M. Hough; she d. Aug. 1, 1894, s. p.
Res., Longmeadow and Springfield, Mass.
2337 George Moses Allen, b. April 30, 1846; m. Feb. 22, 1870, Eunice
Starr, dau. of John R. Starr and Betsey A. Turner of Groton,
(Snualogg of ti|r Potttprog 3FamUg 2BB
Conn.; she d. about 1906; he d. April 11, 1900; six children. Res.,
Enfield, Conn.
Children of Elisabeth and Enos Kellogg, (23^0):
2338 Charles Hyde Kellogg, b. Jan. 9, 1831 ; d. Dec. 4, 1832.
2339 Mary Elizadeth Kellogg, b. July 5, 1833.
2340 Charles Otis Kellogg, b. Aug. 17, 1836; m. Olive A. Nash.
2341 George Reynolds Kellogg, b. Oct. 11, 1838; m. Mary Lucretia
Bolles.
Children of Lucinda and Eber Patten, (2321):
2342 Cornelia Patten, b. Dec. 5, 1830; d. Sept. 17, 1854.
2343 Son Patten, b. 1833; d. Jan. 31, 1834.
2344 Eunice Patten, b. Jan. 13, 1836; d. Dec. 7, 1854.
2345 Son Patten, b. 1839; d. Jan. 11, 1840.
Children of Justus and Abigail M, Patten, (2322):
2345.1 Elliott Patten. 2345.2 Erwin Patten.
8th gen. Children of Mar\ J. and Horace Patten, (2335):
2345.3 Henry Benjamin PATTEN/b. Jan. 31, 1855; m. March 9, 1882,
Emily Adelle Allen, dau. of Asher and Emily M. Allen; two chil-
dren. Res., Cheyenne, Wyo.
2345.4 Homer Wells Patten, b. March 14, 1858; unm.
720 JOSHUA POMEROY. {Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltzvecd). b. April
15, 1774, in Somers, Conn.; m. June 5, 1800, Persis Sexton, b.
July 9, 1781, d. 1876; he d. June 1, 1849. Res., Enfield, Conn.
6th gen. Children, b, in Enfield:
2346 Cyrus Pomeroy, b. Oct. 25, 1802. +
2347 Emily Pomeroy, b. Dec. 3, 1805; d. Dec. 30, 1813.
2348 Eliza Pomeroy, b. Dec. 3, 1805, (twin with Emily). -I-
2349 Persis Pomeroy, b. June 28, 1810. +
2350 Mary Pomeroy, b. Aug. 25, 1813. +
2351 Emily Pomeroy, b. Nov. 30, 1815. +
'*He has set His bow in the cloud, and it is a token of
The Covenant between Him and the earth people.**
722 ESTHER POMEROY, (Elisha, John, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Dec. 4, 1745, Northampton; m. (1) 1766, Isaac Guern-
sey of Northampton; m. (2) Dec. 22, 1773, Dr. Robert Cutler of
Amherst, b. Oct 2, 1748, d. March 10, 1835; she d. Dec. 11, 1822.
Res., Pelham, Mass.
7th gen. Children by 2d marriage:
2351.1 Esther Cutler, b. Jan. 11, 1775; m. Wright Warner; she d. 1818,
Stockville, Ohio. +
2352 Susan Cutler, b. April 9, 1777; m. Jason Mixter, who d. Jan.,
1850; she d. Oct. 30, 1850, at Hardwick. +
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2353 Robert Cutler, b. Dec. 17, 1778; d. Nov. 4, 1781.
2354 Elisha Pomeroy Cutler, b. Oct. 18, 1780; graduated Williams
College; studied law at North Yarmouth, Me.; m. July, 1811, Bet-
sey Delano; he d. Aug. 29, 1813. +
2355 Dr. Isaac Guernsey Cutler, b. Nov. 18, 1782; gr. Williams Col-
lege; studied medicine at Amherst; m. Frances Hastings; d. June
29, 1834. +
2356 Dr. Robert Cutler, b. Sept 19, 1784; studied medicine; prac-
ticed at St. Albans and Red Bluff, in the Mississippi Valley; d.
Nov. 22, 1817.
8th gen. Children of Esther and Wright Warner, (2351.1):
2357 Susan Warner.
2358 Wright Warner; d. soon.
2359 Eliza Whipple Warner, b. Aug. 28, 1811.
Children of Susan and Jason Mixter, (2352):
2360 William Mixter, m. Mary Ruggles; d. July 29, 1884, leaving
four children.
2361 Charles Mixter, perished in the sinking of the Ville de Havre,
Nov. 22, 1874; m. and left three children.
2362 Su.SAN Mixter, m. Joseph Knox; d. at Chicago, Feb. 4, 1894;
I ae. 80: seven children.
2363 George Mixter, m. and settled in Rock Island, 111.; four children.
2364 Marion Mixter, d. Feb. 7, 1820, ae. 11 years.
Child of Elisha P. and Betsey Cutler, (2354):
2365 Elisha Pomeroy Cutler.
Children of Dr. Isaac G. and Frances Cutler, (2355):
2366 Robert Cutler, b. Dec. 19, 1808; m. Feb., 1831, Julia Narcissa
White Leonard; gr. Amherst College; d. July 25, 1890, at Grand
Rapids, Mich., of old age.
2M>7 William Cutler, b. Dec. 29, 1811; m. June, 1842, Harriet M.
Gilbert; he was a merchant at Amherst, Mass.
2368 Elisha Pomeroy Cutler, b. Nov. 20, 1814.
2369 Isaac Guernsey Cutler, b. June 25, 1817; m. Jan. 10, 1843, Har-
riet E. Fox; she d. in New Haven, Conn., April 17, 1896; he d.
\ Lockport, N. Y., Julv, 1849; cholera.
^ 2370 Esther Cutler, b. March 22. 1819 ; d. Oct. 25, 1886 ; unm.
I 2371 George Cutler, b. July 25, 1823; m. May 23, 1849, Frances Gay-
lord of Amherst; merchant in partnership with his brother Wil-
liam in Amherst.
2372 Charles Cutler, b. July 22, 1826; m. April 4, 1852, Harriet
Coolidge of Westminster, Mass.; manufacturer of melodeons; he
d. Sept. 16, 1881, Grand Haven, Mich.
2373 DwiGHT Cutler, b. Nov. 14, 1830; m. Feb. 16, 1858, Frances E.
S. Slayton of Stowe, Vt. Lumber dealer at Grand Haven, Mich.
725 RACHEL POMEROY, {Elisha, John, Ebeneser, Medad, Elh
weed), b. about 1758; m. Robert Field, son of Robert Field of
Greenwich, Mass.
I
(Sn»8Ui9)i of tifr Ponvrotf JamilQ 2BB
7^ gr^n. Child:
2374 Mary Field, m. (1) Joshua N. Upham, Esq., who d. soon after
marriage; she m. (2) May 19, 1812, Hon. Elihu Lyman, b. Sept.
25, 1782, d. Feb. 11, 1826, at Boston, son of Major Elihu Lyman
and Sarah Stebbins. He was graduated from Dartmouth College,
class of 1803; read law with Ebenezer Foot of Troy, N. Y., and
Richard English Newcomb of Greenfield, Mass. ; practiced in
Greenfield and Greenwich; was high sheriff of Franklin county
from 1811 to 1815. Elected to the State Senate, and d. while
the legislature was in session, lamented as a gentleman of high
principles as well as of fine personal appearance and courtly man-
ners. She d +
8th gen. Children of Mary and Elihu Lyman, (2374):
2375 Eliza Jones Lyman, b. 1812; d. June 19, 1830.
2376 Mary Field Lyman, b. 1815; she was a principal of a young
ladies' seminary in Philadelphia, Pa.
2377 Catherine Dwight Lyman, b. 1817; also principal of the same
seminary.
2378 Annie Jean Lyman, b. 1819; m. Oct. 9, 1849, Prof. Charles
Short, son of Charles and Rebecca Short of Salem, Mass. +
2379 Elihu Lyman, b. 1820; d. July 1, 1823.
2330 Charlotte Augusta Lyman, b. about 1822.
2381 Elihu Lyman, b. about 1824; d. Jan. 24, 1825.
8th gen. Children of Annie /. and Charles Short, (2378):
2382 Charles Lancaster Short. 2384 Edward Lyman Short.
2383 Mary Field Short. 2385 Henry Alford Short.
726 NANCY POMEROY, {Elisha, John, Ebeneser, Medad, Eltweed),
bp. May 17, 1761, in Northampton; m. Aug., 1787, Capt. William
Ashley, b. May 20, 1763, at Prescott, d. April 7, 1847, at Hudson,
N. Y., son of Samuel Ashley.
7th gen. Children:
2386 William Ashley, b. " 1788 ; perished in a snow storm on the
Hudson River in childhood.
2387 Hon. Chester Ashley, b. June 1, 1790, in Amherst, Mass.; gr.
Williams College, 1813; m. and settled at Little Rock, Ark.; was
elected to the United States Senate; d. in Washington, D. C., in
April, 1848, leaving a wife and children, of whom we have no
trace.
2388 Elisha Pomeroy Ashley.
790 SIMEON POMEROY, (John, John, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
bp. April 21, 1754, Northampton; m. Sally Crocker, b. May 20,
1/57, dau. of John Crocker and Sarah Kingsbury. ^
7th gen. Child:
2389 Thomas Merrick Pomeroy, b. about 1780, in Northampton; m.
He was a printer by trade and lived on South street, Northamp-
ton; his shop was in the old Tontine building, which stood where
2B9 i^ixtlf (Srnrratiim - Mehuh
the late Hon. John Clarke afterward built and lived. His child
was burned to death on Dec. 1, 1805.
791 CYNTHIA POMEROY, (John, John, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Dec. 7, 1755; m. (1) May 5, 1775, Dr. Sereno Edwards
Dwight, b. Dec. 10, 1754, d. Oct. 10, 1783, son of Major Timothy
Dwight and Mary Edwards of Northampton; she m. (2) June 4,
1789, John Lyman, Jr.. b. Sept. 8, 1750, Northampton, son of
John Lyman and Hannah Strong; she d. May 28, 1790.
/th gen. Children by ist marriage, b, Northampton:
2390 Martha Dwight, b. Aug. 10, 1777; m. Sept. 23, 1798, Austin
Denison, b. 1775, d. Aug. 12, 1812, son of Zina Denison and Eliza-
beth Austin; he was a merchant of Northam, Conn., and left a
handsome property; she d. Sept. 20, 1826, Wilkesbarre, Pa., and
was interred at New Haven, Conn. +
2391 John Dwight, b. about 1780; d. Sept. 27, 1783, at Northampton.
Child by 2d marriage:
2392 Cynthia Lyman, b. May 23, 1790; m. Nov. 26, 1806, Titus Smith
of Granby, Mass., b. Jan. 17, 1786, d. April, 1854; she d. Feb.,
1825. -f
8th gen. Children of Martha and Austin Denison, (2390):
2393 Mary Elizabeth Denison, b. Aug. 1, 1799; m. Oct. 4, 1825,
Judge Charles D. Shoemaker, of Forty-Fort, Wyoming Valley, Pa.,
b. July 9, 1802, son of Elijah Shoemaker and Elizabeth Denison
(dau. of Col. Nathan Denison and Elizabeth Sill) ; graduated
Yale, 1824. He was a Judge of County Court, Wilkesbarre, elder
in the Presbyterian Church, "and greatly respected and beloved."
Mary d. at Wilkesbarre, Dec. 2, 1833; he m. (2) Mrs. Stella Mc-
Nair of New Orleans, by whom he had four sons. He d. Aug.
1, 1862, ae. 60, leaving a large estate, which had been in his
family a century. +
2394 JuLiANNE Denison, b. July, 1806; d. Feb. 23, 1807.
2395 Martha Dwight Denison, b. March 31, 1808; m. May 1, 1832,
Gen. Ebenezcr Warren Sturdevant, who d. April, 1854; she d.
Oct. 20, 1842. +
Children of Cynthia and Titus Smith, (23^2):
2396 Adeline Smith, b. Oct. 3, 1807; d. April 9, 1808.
2397 John Lyman Smith, b. Jan. 5, 1810; d. June 3, 1870.
2398 Adeline Smith, b. Feb. 26, 1812.
2399 Austin Denison Smith, b. April 27, 1814; d. Oct. 30, 1816.
2400 Laura Smith, b. March 23, 1816; m. Oct. 22, 1834, William
Kent, b. Jan. 21, 1811, son of William Kent and Dolly Warner;
carpenter at Wilbraham, Mass.
gth gen. Children of Mary E, and Charles D, Shoemaker, (23QJ):
2401 Austin Denison Shoemaker, M. D., b. Aug. 1, 1826; graduated,
A. B., 1845, and became a physician at Wilkesbarre; went to
Honolulu.
2402 Martha Ann Shoemaker, b. Dec. IS, 1828; d. July 2, 1844.
(Sntralogg of tlfr Potttrrott 3FamUg 290
Child of Martha D. and Gen. Ebeneser IV, Sturdevant, (2295):
2403 Mary Elizabeth Sturdevant, b. April 10. 1833; d. June 18, 1836.
Sereno Edwards Dwight, M.D., was lost at sea off the coast of Halifax,
N. S., Oct. 10, 1783. He was a Surgeon in the British army, and was called "the
handsomest man in all that handsome family/' said Madame Rhoda Dwight of
Northampton. He is remembered to have had a remarkably strong, rich and
musical voice. He and his brother Jonathan went with their father, Major Tim-
othy Dwight, to Natchez to found the proposed new colony there. In **The
Memoirs of Capt. Matthew Phelps," by Anthony Has well of New Haven, Vt.,
published at Bennington, in 1802, an interesting account of this expedition may
be found.
Capt. Phelps sailed May 1, 1775, from Middletown in a vessel commanded by
Capt. Eggleston. There were passengers, Major Timothy Dwight and two sons,
Madame Lyman and her two sons and two daughters, and the Rev. Mr. Smith
from Granville, with his family. On July 30, they made the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi river, whence they proceeded to New Orleans. Mrs. Flowers, one of the
party, died about Sept. 20 of a fever. They went up the river in boats. Mr.
Smith died a few days after their arrival at Natchez. Then Major Dwight and
Mrs. Lyman died. Mr. Phelps lost his wife and two children by sickness, and
during the month his two remaining children were drowned.
Fort Penmore, near Natchez, a British fort built for the protection of the
settlers there, fell into the hands of the Spaniards in Sept., 1779. Soon after it^
surrender, Major Lyman determined to put the fort into the hands of the Ameri-
can troops, which lay a small distance up the river, as had previously been ar-
ranged between them. A full account is given of the stratagem, by which the
proposed undertaking was to be accomplished, and the failure of the expected
movement into the fort by the American troops. Gen. Lyman, it will be re-
membered, had died in the summer of 1774, and Major Dwight in 1777. The two
sons of Major Dwight, it appears from this account, remained in Natchez some
three and a half years. The Spaniards, on realizing the trick that had been
played so successfully upon them, determined to destroy the little garrison if
they could.
They must now make their escape or be slain. Out of the fort they retreat-
ed undiscovered and joined the rest of their friends, who with such provisions
as they could gather and a few pack-horses, started, men, women and children,
for the eastern seaboard. In all these perils Mrs. Cynthia Pomeroy Dwight
had with her a little daughter about two years old. For one born in a home so
quiet and amid circumstances of affluence, her life was surely one full of stormy
experiences. On to Georgia, through a trackless waste of forests haunted by
wild Indians, they must march or perish by the way. Their little store of pro-
visions was soon exhausted, and they had to live afterwards on such game as
they could shoot, and on the wild fruits, herbs and roots of the forests. They
early lost their compass and could direct their course only by the light of the
sun. So troublesome were the Indians that they kept a watch standing by night
for safety. They often had deep and broad streams to cross, and constructed
floats for that purpose, bound together with strong withes. They came once to
a stream, running rapidly, and half a mile or so across, which caused great dis-
may. But one of their number suggested that somewhere on the opposite side
they would probably find a canoe. This man volunteered that if any one would
accompany him to swim the stream on horse-back, and risk life for the general
good, he would make the attempt. When no one answered to the challenge,
though often repeated, Mrs. Sereno Pomeroy Dwight said that she would join
the venture with him. This roused her husband from his torpor of mind and he
agreed to go with them. These three accordingly mounting their horses, drove
bravely into the swift current. Ere long they found themselves on a flat reef of
rocks scarcely belly-deep to their horses. Here they raised a loud shout to
their companions, a shout of encouragement. But on reaching the farther side oi
the ledge they found it suddenly sheer and steep and the water many fathoms
deep. Mrs. Dwight was not looking forward at the time, but on hearing the
splash made by the horses with their riders before her, she turned only to see
them both disappear entirely from view. As they soon reappeared safe and
201 ^\xSi( (Srtttratiim - 0isha^
sound, she clung to the neck of her horse, and following after them made a
like fearful leap into the water and with the same safety. They landed soon after
unharmed. After much searching they found an old Indian canoe, in which
they brought over in threes at a time the entire company during the day.
Great as were the pangs they often suffered from hunger in these trackless
forests, greater still were those from thirst. They were at one time thirty-six
hours without water, during which additional strain upon their physical fortitude,
after a long series of severe trials, several of their number died. On the morn-
ing of the second day after crossing the great river, leaving Mrs. Dwight and
some others behind them, men set out with what heart and hope they could in
various directions to find water, and all came back in the afternoon, one after
the other despairingly, with the sad report that it was nowhere to be found.
Mrs. Dwight now resolved to make one last desperate search herself for water,
and telling them that if she failed as they had, she should still keep moving on
as long as she could, and give up only when she must. Three or four others ac-
companied her. They came at last after long fruitless searches elsewhere to a
low spot between two hills, where the sod was spongy under their feet. "Here."
said she, ''we must find water or die; and to find it we must do our best digging."
Poor were the tools they had, but well did they use them, and soon found water
to a sufficient degree to warrant sending back the tidings of the great discovery.
When the others arrived it was necessary to use force to restrain some of them
from injuring themselves by a too free use of the new made fountain of living
waters in the wilderness.
Those who survived the hardships of this perilous expedition reached Georgia
at last, in separate bands, by different routes, weary and worn and almost naked.
792 CAPTAIN LUTHER POMEROY, (John, John, Ebenezer, Me-
dad, Eltweed). b. Nov. 8, 1757, Northampton: m. 1783, Rhoda
Burt, b. March 27. 1761, d. Nov. 21, 1829. He was a private in
Capt. Jonathan Allen's company of Minute Men, Gen. Pomeroy's
regiment, which marched April 20, 1775, in response to the alarm
of April 19, 1775; service 8 days; reported enlisted into the army
April 27, 1775 ; also, Capt. Jonathan Allen's 3d company. Col. John
Fellows' 8th regiment; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; service 3
months, 21 days; also, company returns dated Dorchester, Oct. 7,
1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated
Dorchester Camp, Nov. 7, 1775 ; at periods, he served seven years
in the Revolution: was wounded and drew a pension until the
time of his death, March 11. 1855. ae. 97. His title of Captain is
due to his rank as Captain of a militia company. An obituary
at the time of his death says that when the tiding^s of the battle
of Lexington reached Northampton Luther Pomeroy, an appren-
tice to the carpenter's trade, was at work upon a bam. The
foreman, Capt. Allen, at once requested the young men to lay
aside their tools and enter the army to maintain their liberty. No
sooner was the request made than Luther Pomeroy came down
from the building, equipped himself for war, and marched with
Capt. Allen's company that day as far as Belchertown. His first
enlistment in the Continental army was for three years; but his
noble mother, whom he said "he always minded" and his love for
the cause, induced him to again enter the army, serving till the
end of the war and the disbandonment of his regiment. He re-
ceived an honorable discharge and was granted a supplemental
pension for a wound in the face from a cannon shot. He was
present at the battles of Bunker Hill and Saratoga. Of these en-
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gagements it was the old soldier's delight to speak. Capt. Pomeroy
was characterized by strength of mind, a generous disposition and
a tenacious love of right; his habits were strictly temperate, and
his intellectual powers remained unimpaired till the last. Lived in
Chester, Mass.
"He looked in years; but in years were seen
A youthful vigor; an autumnal green."
ph gen. Children:
2404 Rhoda Pomeroy, b. Sept. 29, 1784. +
2405 Nancy Pomeroy, b. Sept. 18. 1786. +
2406 Sally Pomeroy, b. Nov. 10, 1788; m. Gad Shattuck.
2407 Luther Pomeroy, b. Oct. 21. 1790; d. Aug. 10, 1802.
2408 Charles Pomeroy, b. Nov. 6, 1792.
2409 Cynthia Pomeroy, b. Oct. 8, 1794; m. Job Cowing.
2410 Weltha Pomeroy, b. Jan. 10, 1797. +
2411 Phena Pomeroy, b. April 3, 1799; d. Oct. 20, 1803.
2412 Luther Pomeroy, b. Aug. 10, 1802; d. Oct. 20, 1803.
2413 John Pomeroy, b. April 12, 18W. +
7»5 RACHEL POMEROY, (Oliver. John, Ebcnczcr, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Sept. 15, 1754: m. Oct. 27, 1771, Major Edward Bulk-
ley of Rocky Hill, Conn., b. about 1741, son of Charles Bulkley
and Mary Sage; she d. Aug. 14, 1774; he m. (2) Nov., 1775,
Prudence Welles. His rank as Major was attained in the Revo-
lution. Resided in what was known as the "Long House,'* built
by Mr. Pomeroy, near the landing; he d. May 30, 1787.
7th gen. Children, by ist wife:
2414 RoxY Bulkley, b. Oct. 25, 1772; m. Oct. 25, 1793, Col. Selah
Francis; moved to Delaware county, N. Y. ; he raised and equipped
a regiment for the war of 1812, and was commissioned Colonel,
ser\-ing under General Farrington. +
2415 William Bulkley, bp. Nov. 2, 1773; lost at sea July 23, 1788.
8th gen. Children of Roxy and Selah Francis, (2414):
2416 Roxy Pomeroy pRANas, b. 1794; m. May 4, 1815, Judge Jesse
Booth, b. Aug. 29, 1790, son of Lieut. Joseph Booth; he was
Quartermaster in the war of 1812; served several terms in the
State Legislature, and was a Common Pleas Judge over 30 con-
secutive years. +
gth gen. Children of Roxy P, and Jesse Booth, (2416):
2417 Walter Booth. 2420 Angeline Booth.
2418 Mary Booth. 2421 Flora Booth.
2419 George Booth. 2422 Julia Booth.
2423 Ellen Bulkley Booth, m. B. C. Dick.
797 SIMEON POMEROY, {Titus, John, Ebeneser, Medad, Eltweed),
b. about 1760; m.
7th gen. Children:
2424 Nancy Pomeroy. 2425 Betsey Pomeroy.
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2426 Titus Pomeroy, b. Sept. 5, 1786. +
2427 Celas Pomeroy.
799 ROXALANA POMEROY. (Titus, John, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. 1766, South Hadley; m. March 1» 1785, Simeon White
of South Hadley, Mass.; she d. July 29, 1804.
Jth gen. Children, b. at South Hadley:
2428 RoxA White, b. May 9, 1787; m. Nov. 10, 1808, Ephraim Smith,
Jr. ; she d. Jan. 22, 1820. +
2429 QuARTus White, b. April 28, 1789; m. Persis Stebbins, b, Dec.
30, 1787, at Longmeadow, Mass., dau. of Zadoc Stebbins and wife
Urania Burt.
2430 Calvin White, b. Aug. 26, 1791; m. Patty Smith; had children.
2431 Polly White, b. Oct. 25, 1794; d. April, 1811.
8th gen. Children of Roxa and Ephraim Smith, (2428):
2432 Edmund Smith. 2433 Andrew Smith.
800 HANNAH POMEROY, {Titus, John, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. about 1768; m. Giles Parmele, b. 1764. He was a sol-
dier of the Revolution; was drawing government pension at Pots-
dam, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1832.
7th gen. Children:
2434 Hannah Parmele, m. Mr. Thoms. ■+-
2435 Ruth Parmele, m. Mr. Winslow.
2436 Sallie Parmele, m. Mr. Hoit +
2437 QuARTus Parmele, m. Ellen +
2438 Polly Parmele, m. Mr. Lane. +
2439 Seth Parmele, m. Orpha Dunbar. +
2440 Olive Parmele, m. Mr. HoUie.
8th gen. Children of Hannah and Mr. Thoms, (2434):
2441 Charles Thoms. 2442 George Thoms.
Children of Sally and Mr. Hoit, (2436):
2443 Gilbert Hoit. 2444 Caroline Hoit.
Children of Quartus and Ellen Parmele, (2437):
2445 Ellen Parmele.
2446 Calvin Parmele; and other children.
Children of Polly and Mr. Lane, (2438):
2447 Laura Lane. 2449 George Lane.
2448 Lucia Lane.
Children of Seth and Orpha Parmele, (2439):
2450 Cassius Parmele. 2455 Charles Parmele.
2451 Lucius Parmele. 2456 Giles Parmele.
2452 Elmira Parmele. 2457 Sarah Parmele.
2453 Susan Parmele. 2458 Jerome Parmele.
2454 George Parmele. 2459 Lucia Parmblb.
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SQ2 ETHAN POMEROY, (Ebeneser, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad,
Eltweed), b. about 1744; m. Nov. 9, 1774, Esther Parsons, b. July
1, 1747, d. Aug. 10, 1807, dau. of Jacob Parsons and Beulah Hunt
of Northampton; resided in Hadley, Mass., and is doubtless the
Ethan Pomeroy of the Revolution credited to Hadley, as private
in Capt. Eliakim Smith's company, the date of enlistment being
July 20, 1775. He removed from Hadley to Naples, N. Y., and
later to Ohio, finally settling near Terre Haute, Ind., where he
d. at an advanced age, and was interred in the cemetery at Otter
Creek Prairie.
7tA gen. Children:
2460 Artemissia Pomeroy, b. 1775. +
2461 Belinda (or Celinda) Pomeroy, b. 1777. +
2462 Esther Pomeroy, bp. April 4, 1779; m. Lemuel Baker.
2463 Dan Pomeroy, b. March 9, (bp. April 4,) 1779.
2464 Jacob Parsons Pomeroy, b. 1780; d. Dec. 4, 1784.
2465 Ethan Pomeroy, bp. Oct. 14, 1787; d. Dec. 17, 1788.
803 ABIGAIL POMEROY, (Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad,
Eltweed), b. about 1746; m. April 21, 1778, Capt. John Woods
of Westborough, Mass.
7th gen. Child:
2466 Samuel Woods.
807 ELIZABETH POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Me-
dad, Eltweed), bp. Dec. 23, 1753; m. June 1, 1780, Dr. Timothy
Lyman, b. Aug. 15, 1753, d. June 12, 1792; son of Phineas Lyman
and Joanna Eastman; she m. (2) Ebenezer Clark, (his third wife),
of Northampton, Mass., and Lunenburg, Vt.
jth gen. Children:
2467 Joanna Lyman, b. May 4, 1782; m. Abel Brown of Springfield,
Mass. ; removed to Wisconsin about 1839, and all trace of the
family lost.
2468 Elizabeth Lyman, bp. March 28, 1784.
2469 Phinehas Lyman, bp. Feb. 20, 1786.
2470 Naomi Lyman, b. March 17, 1787; m. Asa Clark of Lunenburg,
Vt.
2471 Elihu Lyman, b. July, 1789; went to Wisconsin as a pioneer.
808 MINDWELL POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Me-
dad, Eltweed), bp. April 11, 1756; m. (1) Joseph Marsh, son of
Moses, b. 1755, d. Aug., 1783; she m. (2) 1793, Ebenezer Clark
(his second wilEe).
7th gen. Children:
2472 Sally Marsh, b. June 10, 1782; m. 1800, Lemuel Holmes.
2473 Joanna Marsh, b. 1784; m. Daniel Clark.
811 ELEANOR POMEROY, {Stephen, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad,
Eltweed), b. in 1760; m. (1) James Hulbert; m. (2) Eurotus
Dickinson; she d. Nov. 12, 1845.
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yth gen. Child:
2474 AcHSAH HuLBERT, b. May 25, 1775; m. Dec. 15, 1795, Deacon
Noah Strong, son of Job and Damaris Strong of Easthampton, b.
June 9, 1771, d. Dec. 19, 1840; she d. Nov. 12, 1845. +
8th gen. Children of Achsah and Noah Strong, (2474):
2475 Phebe Strong, b. April 14, 1797; d. Aug. 1, 1869; unm.
2476 Horatio Strong, b. Aug. 12, 1799; d. Nov. 30, 1802.
2477 Achsah Strong, b. Oct. 23, 1802; m. June 5, 18. ., Waitstill Root
Strong; he d. Oct. 7, 1855; she m. (2) Sept. 2, 1857, Chester Man-
ville of Wakeman, Ohio.
2478 Frederick Strong, b. Jan. 19, 1805; m. July 5, 1841, Lucretia
Ashley, b. May 9, 1807.
2479 Eleanor Strong, b. Sept. 16, 1807; m. May 1, 1833, Theodore
Lynian, b. July 13, 1804, son of Joel Lyman and Achsah Par-
sons; he had previously m. Laura Griswold of Norwich, Mass. +
2480 Elizabeth Strong, b. Aug. 1, 1810; m. Aug. 17, 1841, Robert
Porter, b. April 11, 1807, son of Nathaniel Porter and Mary
Kruthers.
2481 Jonathan Clark Strong, b. Sept. 1, 1814; d. March 29, 1832.
gth gen. Children of Eleanor and Theodore Lyman, (2479):
2482 Theodore C. Lyman, b. Dec. 21, 1835; d. March 1, 1855.
2483 Edwin J. Lyman, b. (twin with Theodore) ; d. Sept. 16, 1860.
2484 Harriet M. Lyman, b. March 27, 1838.
2485 Theodore S. Lyman, b. Aug. 21, 1842; d. Nov. 5, 1861.
812 HON. ENOS POMEROY, {Stephen, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad,
Eltweed), b. April 23, 1761; m. Lucy Smith, b. April 15, 1766, d.
Jan. 6, 1847; he d. March 26, 1826, in Buckland, Mass. It is said
of him that he was industrious, benevolent and patriotic; that he
was a sincere and consistent Christian, and that for many years
he held important offices in Buckland. He was elected represen-
tative to the Massachusetts Legislature for ten years in succession,
until he absolutely declined to accept office longer. He was also
a delegate to the convention which revised the state constitution.
7th gen. Children:
2486 Stephen Pomeroy, b. Jan. 2, 1786. +
2487 Pamelia Pomeroy, b. Dec. 2, 1787. +
2488 Sabra Pomeroy, b. Sept. 8, 1789; m. Sept. 20, 1813, Silas Benton
of Ridgway, N. Y. ; she d. October, 1855, at West Dryden, N. Y.
2489 Enos Pomeroy, b. May 24, 1791. +
2490 Lucy Pomeroy, b. Dec. 3, 1793. +
2491 Luther Pomeroy, b. May 30, 1796; d. 1815, at Chenango, N. Y.
2492 Calvin Pomeroy, b. Oct. 27, 1798. +
2493 Electa Pomeroy, b. Feb. 8, 1801. +
2494 Achsah Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1803; d. Oct. 21, 1824.
2495 Tryphena Pomeroy, b. Dec. 11, 1805. +
2496 Levi Pomeroy, b. April 26, 1808; d. Sept. 12, 1823, while study-
ing for the ministry in Amherst, Conn.
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HEMAN POMEROY, (Heman, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), bp. July 8, 1770; m. Dec. 23, 1797, Lucy Parsons, b. 1777,
d. Dec. 3, 1843, dau. of Lieut. Samuel Parsons and Lucy Pomeroy
(348) ; he d. July 15, 1852. Resided at Hanover, N. H.
/th gen. Children:
Heman Pomeroy, b. April 18, 1799. +
Moses Alexis Pomeroy, b. Dec. 6, 1801, in Hanover, N. H.; m.
July, 1827, Amanda Wilsey; he d. July, 1834.
Lucy Parsons Pomeroy, b. Oct. 11, 1804, in Northampton, Mass.;
d. May 10, 1805.
Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. March 21, 1806; d. Oct. 29, 1839; unm.
George Pomeroy, b. March 29, 1809. +
Lucy Pomeroy, b. May 8, 1812. +
John Pomeroy, b. Dec. 20, 1815; d. Nov. 3, 1859, at Alton, 111.;
unm.
AMES Pomeroy, b. (twin with John) ; d. July, 1816.
AMES Pomeroy, b. June 6, 1820; d. Sept. 5, 1820.
ROSVVELL POMEROY, (Heman, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Medad,
Eltweed), bp. Feb. 23, 1775, in Northampton, Mass.; m. Sept. 18,
1804, Lydia Phillips, b. Nov. 3, 1781, at Dorchester, d. Oct. 26,
1847; he d. Sept. 5, 1830.
jth gen. Children:
RoswELL Pomeroy, b. April 14, 1805, in Roxbury, Mass.; d. Aug.
2, 1824.
Abigail Phillips Pomeroy, b. Feb. 29, 1808.
Lydia Pomeroy, b. April 11, 1809.
Thomas M. Pomeroy, b. in 1812. +
Samuel Capen Pomeroy, b. Dec. 23, 1815; d. June 18, 1870, in
Boston.
POLLY POMEROY, {Adino, Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
bp. Sept. 27, 1761, in Northampton; m. July 5, 1781, Nathan Starr,
b. April 14, 1755, in Middletown, Conn., d. July 29, 1821, son of
Joseph Starr and Priscilla Roper; she d. May 25, 1825. Nathan
Starr was a noted worker in iron and steel in Middletown, In
June, 1776, he enlisted in the company of Capt. Joseph Churchill
and went with part of his regiment to the aid of Gen. Washing-
ton at New York, serving until about Dec. 25, 1776. He was ap-
pointed "Master Armorer" by the Governor of Massachusetts, and
after 1800 he engaged in the business of manufacturing swords
for the United States army and navy. From 1813 his son Nathan
was interested with him in the enterprise, and they made several
valuable swords to order for distinguished officers of the war of
1812. Among these fine swords was one for Commander Isaac
Hull, to the order of the State of Connecticut, costing $1,000; one
for Col. Richard M. Johnson, by order of Congress, valued at
$1,200. They also made army officers' sashes, one for Gen. An-
drew Jackson and one for Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, by order of the
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State of Tennessee, costing $1,000 and $900, respectively. The
original revolver, it is said, was designed and made under the
supervision of Nathan Starr, and is now in the possession of one
of his heirs. It was on June 20, 1776, that he was commissioned
armorer of Col. Comfort Sage's regiment, and this commission was
signed by Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, Gen. Washington's "Brother
Jonathan," and is preserved by his descendants. After the war,
he included in his business as gun-smith, the manufacture of fire-
engines and scythes.
7//i gen. Children:
2511 Susanna Starr, b. April 19, 1782, Middletown, Conn.; m. Jan.
18, 1806, Henry Carrington of Milford, Conn., b. March 20, 1781,
d. July 2, 1871, son of Edward Carrington and Susanna Whittle-
sey. Mr. Carrington was in the West India trade for a time, after
which he became cashier of the Middletown bank; later he settled
in C'licago, where he opened a banking house, eventually returning
to ?liddletown, and became treasurer of the Middletown Savings
Bank; Susanna Starr d. Sept. 6, 1825. +
2512 Hon. Nathan Starr, b. Feb. 20, 1784; m. June 25, 1810, Grace
Townsend, b. Aug. 28, 1789, New Haven, Conn., d. Oct. 29, 1856,
dau. of Ebenezer Townsend and Thankful S. (Barnard) Mather;
he d. Aug. 31, 1852. He was a manufacturer of guns and swords,
and in business with his father in Middletown, Conn. The Starr
Armory furnished 70,000 arms of various kinds for the United
States Government, for which they received over $500,000. Nathan
Starr, Jr., represented Middletown in the General Assembly of
Connecticut, 1817-1818. +
2513 Polly (Mary) Starr, b. May 19, 1786; m. Oct. 25, 1824, Henry
Sylvester Ward, b. June 17, 1793, d. May 9, 1867, son of Joseph
Ward, Jr., and Elizabeth Treadway. He was a merchant and
farmer; and for sixteen years treasurer of the Middletown Sav-
ings Bank; also, deacon of the First Congregational Church; no
children.
2514 William Starr, b. May 29, 1799; d. June 22, 1807; unm.
8th gen. Children of Susapina and Henry Carrington, b. Middle-
town, (2511):
2515 Susan Mary Carrington, b. Nov. 2, 1806; m. Oct. 20, 1830,
Joseph W. Hubbard.
2516 Elizabeth Strong Carrington, b. May 14, 1809; m. Jan. 23,
1833, Edward A. Phelps; she d. Oct. 12, 1847, at Colebrook, Conn.
2517 Mary Starr Carrington, b. April 13, 1811; m. Dec. 4, 1838,
Dunbar Smith Dyson.
2518 Henry Carrington, b. Dec. 4, 1814; m. Grace Phillips; he d.
in San Francisco.
2519 Nathan Starr Carrington, b. Dec. 13, 1816; m. Laura Butler;
d. in Hinsdale, 111.
2520 Lorania Hoppin Carrington, b. Dec. 13, 1819; d. Oct. 13, 1837,
in Middletown, Conn.; unm.
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2521 WiLUAM Edwakd Carrington, b. June 12, 1823; d. Oct. 31, 1851;
unm.
Children of Nathan and Grace Starr, b, in Middletoiun but first
two, (2512):
2522 Mary Elizabeth Starr, b. April 14, 1811 ; d. Aug. 13, 1811.
2523 Elihu William Nathan Starr, b. Aug, 10, 1812, in New
Haven; m. May 27, 1840, Harriet Wetmore Bush, b. April 25,
1815; military education at A. L. Military Academy; he was Ad-
jutant-General of the State of Connecticut; in 1860 he was com-
missioned Brigadier-General of the State Militia; he d. June 14,
1891.
2524 Mary Elizabeth Starr, b. Jan. 31, 1815; m. May 11, 1841, Ham-
ilton Brewer, M.D. ; he was secretary of the New York and
Boston Air Line Railroad; she d. Oct. 26, 1898, at Middletown.
2525 Ebenezer Townsend Starr, b. Aug. 18, 1816; m. Aug. 17, 1842,
Almira S. Babcock; he d. Oct. 27, 1899, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
2526 Henry Starr, b. June 28, 1818; d. Oct. 2, 1819, in Middletown.
2527 Emily Helen Starr, b. June 5, 1820; m. Nov. 25, 1839, Samuel
Henry Ward, b. June 13, 1817, d. March 22, 1858, son of Jehiel
Ward and Nancy Skinner; and graduate of Wesleyan University,
1839; she d. Dec. 29, 1898, in New Haven, Ct.
2528 Grace Ann Starr, b. March 20, 1822 ; d. Oct. 3, 1822, in Middle-
town.
2529 Grace Ann Starr, b. Aug. 16, 1823; m. Aug. 15, 1848, Charles
Dwyer, United States Navy, b. May 20, 1825, son of Charles
Dwyer and Mary Ann Starr; he lost his life on Aug. 23, 1850, in
an attempt to rescue wrecked seamen; she m. (2) Sept. 7, 1859,
James Peck ; she d. June 8, 1893, in Burlington, Vt.
2530 Henry Ward Starr, b. May 30, 1826; m. Dec. 11, 1855, Mary
E. Merrifield; he d. March 1, 1892, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
2531 Frederick Barnard Starr, b. June 2, 1829; m. Oct. 31, 1855,
Frances E. Kirby; he d. April 13, 1865, in Cromwell, Conn.
2532 Edward Pomerov Starr, b. July 19, 1832; d. Oct. 12, 1835, in
Middletown.
g26 NANCY POMEROY, {Adino, Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), bp. Feb. 19, 1764; m. March 2, 1797, (his second wife)
Nathaniel Bishop of Richmond, Mass., a prominent Berkshire
lawyer; she d. Dec. 19, 1797.
jth gen. Children:
2533 Pomeroy Bishop, b. Dec. 9, 1797; d. Dec. 19, 1797.
828 CLARISSA POMEROY, {Adino, Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), bp. June 12, 1768; m. Oct. 23, 1796, Aaron Root, (Oliver,
Samuel), of Pittsfield, Mass., b. Oct. 22, 1770, d. Dec. 8, 1852;
she d. Jan. 13, 1814.
yth gen. Children:
2534 Nancy B. Root, b. Nov. 27, 1798; m. 1814, Lyman Peabody. Res.,
Grafton, Ohio.
2535 John Pomeroy Root, b. Jan. 28, 1800; he was a member of a
Shaker community forty years. Res., Grafton, Ohio.
2536 Samuel Root, b. March 13, 1802; d. Sept, 1803.
2537 Samuel Root, b. May 12, 1804; d June 12, 1825.
2538 Ashley S. Root, b. Aug. 23, 1805.
2539 Mary Root, b. Sept. 30, 1807; m. (1) William Kinney, who d. in
1849; she m. (2) Joseph Thompson. Res., Grafton, Ohio.
S30 SARAH POMEROY, (Adino, Josiah, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. about April 21, 1772, in Middletown, Conn.; m. Aug.
7, 1800, Rev. Roger Searle of Coventry, Conn., b. at Willington,
July 8, 1775, d. at Ashtabula, Ohio, Sept. 6. 1826; she d. at Og-
densburg, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1849.
7th gen. Child:
2540 Nancy Sarah Maria Searle, b. Feb. 17, 1817, in Plymouth,
; m. Oct. 3, 1833, Peter Brown Johnston, b. July 21, 1805,
in Fairfield, Vt., d. June 26, 1876, at Ashland, Ohio; in 1899 she
resided in Paola, Kas., (a widow). +
8th gen. Children of Nancy S. M. and Peter B. Johnston, (2540):
2541 William Thomas Johnston, b. Feb. 4, 1836, in Ashland, Ohio.
2542 Ellen Ophelia Johnston, b. Jan. 29, 1837; d. Aug. 1, 1843, at
Grafton, Ohio.
2543 Adelaide Sophronia Johnston, b. Sept. 10, 1839; m. Feb. 14,
1874, William AUee of Attica, N. Y., son of Walter AUec and
Suble Soddy; she d. Sept. 10, 1875, at Paoli, Kansas. +
2544 Frances Ellen Gertrude Johnston, b. Jan. 11, 1852, in Ash-
land, Ohio; m. William AUee, who had previously m. her sister
Adelaide; he d. at Paoli, Kansas; s. p.
p//r gen. Child of Adelaide S. and William AUee, (2543):
2545 Victor B. Allee, b. Jan. 12, 1875; he was Corporal in the 20th
Kansas Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish war of 1898-9,
stationed at Manila.
834 JOHN POMEROY, {Adino, Josiah, Ebeneser, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Aug. 2, 1784; m. Oct. 17, 1814, Harriet Stevens, b. April 16,
1790, d. Aug. 15, 1850, dau. of Jeremiah Stevens and Susan Gor-
don ; he was Sheriff of Berkshire County, Mass. ; he d. Feb. 4, 1837,
in Pittsfield, Mass.
yth gen. Child:
2546 Harriet Mary Pomeroy, b. April 11, 1819. +
836 PAMELA POMEROY, {Eleazer, Josiah, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Jan. 6, 1760; m. Nathan Dodge, (Daniel, Joseph, Joseph,
Richard), of Essex county, Mass.; he was a soldier of the Revo-
lution; d. in Chesterfield, N. H., Oct. 7, 1797; she d. there Oct.
15, 1797, living but eight days after her husband's death, and
there is a tradition that she did not taste food in the meantime.
7/A gen. Children:
2547 Nathan Dodge. 2548 Ashley Dodge.
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2549 Katharine Dodge. 2552 Flavilla Dodge.
2550 LovisA Dodge. 2553 Phelinda Dodge.
2551 Pamelia Dodge. 2554 Dorothy Dodge.
844 CHESTER POMEROY, (Shammah, Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad,
Eltweed), b. Jan. 20, 1768; m. Oct. 11, 1787, Catherine Smith of
Northfield; removed to Newfane, Vt. His name appears in the
catalogue of listers (tax assessors) (p. 248) for the years 1794,
1800, 1809 and 1815. He is also recorded as Selectman on page
246 of the Selectmen's list, for the years 1802-04, 1820-21, 1826-29.
Newfane had but few settlers prior to 1774, as it had previously
been in the highway of the French and Indian wars.
/th gen. Children:
2555 WiLLARD PoMEROY, d. about 1840; unm.
2556 Fanny Pomeroy, m. (1) Mr. Robinson; m. (2) Mr. Gilbert. It
is said that there were three children, but the Annalist can find
no trace of them.
2557 Maria Pomeroy, m. Calvin Lounsley.
2558 Sophia Pomeroy, b. about 1794. +'
2559 Chester Wright Pomeroy, b. about 1796. +
847 WILLIAM POMEROY, {Shammah, Josiah, Ebeneser, Medad,
Eltweed), b. June 6, 1776; m. (1) Lucy, dau. of Charles Bowen;
she d. June 18, 1813; he m. (2) about 1816, Harriet Chapin, b.
April 25, 1789, d. Aug. 28, 1818. dau. of Capt. Israel Chapin and
Chloe Lombard; he m. (3) April 25, 1819, Elizabeth Cushing, b.
1787, d. 1859. He was a merchant in Northfield; removed to
Cambridge, Mass., and became a generous benefactor to the First
church.
jth gen. Children, by ist wife:
2560 Charles Bowen Pomeroy, b. April 24, 1805 ; d. Feb. 23, 1824.
2561 William Pomeroy, b. June 13, 1807. +
2562 Ann Pomeroy, b. March 20, 1809.
2563 Lucretia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 1, 1811; m. June 5, 1833, Oren S.
Keith, a teacher in Framingham and Cambridge, Mass.
2564 Lucy B. Pomeroy, b. Feb. 26, 1813; d. Aug. 13, 1813.
Child by 2d ivife:
2565 Frances Pomeroy, b. Aug. 4, 1818.
OLIVE POMEROY, {Josiah, Josiah, Ebeneser, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Aug. 16, 1763; m. 1791, Nathan Knowlton of Newfane, Vt, (his
second wife, he having previously m. Abigail Maynard, who d.
Dec. 21, 1790), b. May 15, 1760, d. May 24, 1856, son of Joseph
Knowlton, (Joseph, Thomas, John, John, Capt. William) ; he was
a soldier of the Revolution, having enlisted in Nov., 1776, and
credited to Shrewsbury, Mass., serving five months; "she d. Jan.
3, 1843.
ph gen. Children:
2566 Lucretia Knowlton, b. March 3, 1792; d. Feb. 26, 1793.
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2567 Joanna Knowlton, b. July 23, 1793; m. 1815, David Rockwood
b. in Xewfane, Vt, Sept. 11, 1791, d. Jan. 12, 1857; she d. Aug. 14,
1857. Res.. Bennington, Vt. +
2568 PoMEROY Knowlton, b. Aug. 1, 1794; m. Marcia Palmer; he d.
June 1, 1874. +
2569 LuciNDA Knowlton, b. Feb. 3, 1796; d. 1799.
2570 Olive Knowlton, b. Feb. 1, 1797; m. April 20, 1824, Curtis Fay
of Hinsdale, N. H.; he d. Feb. 2, 1874, she d. March 3, 1886. 4-
2571 Arad Knowlton, b. Dec. 28, 1798; m. Oct., 1825, Sophia Wil-
kinson, b. May 18, 1805; he d. Feb. 17, 1877; she d. May 25,
1875. Res., Boston, Mass. +
2572 Mary Knowlton, b. Feb. 16, 1800; m. March 17, 1822, at New-
fane, \'t., Luther Waters, b. May 7, 1789, at Leyden, Mass., d.
May 15, 1847, at Halifax, Vt., son of Nathan Waterhouse and
Esther Mann; Mrs. Waters d. Sept. 13, 1866. Luther Waters was
son of Nathan Waterhouse. On account of family reasons he
changed the name about 1820 to Waters. +
2573 Lucy Maynard Knowlton, b. Dec. 10, 1801 ; m. Nathaniel Smith
Qark; she d. Feb. 7, 1883. Resided in Auburn, Mass. +
2574 AsAHEL Knowlton, b. Feb. 22, 1803; m. Jan. 19, 1832, Sophronia
Cummings, b. Oct. 17, 1809, of Auburn, Mass., who d. Aug. 12,
1893; he d. Feb. 26, 1900. +
2575 Swan Knowlton, b. April 21, 1804 ;m. April 14,1829, Mrs. Sarah
(Eddy) Baird, b. Jan. 24, 1799, d. June 29, 1893, dau. of Samuel
Eddy and Sarah Hart ; he d. Nov. 27, 1883. +
2576 Luthera Knowlton, b. July 31, 1808; m. Nov. 14, 1832, Ezra
Rice, b. Nov. 25, 1810, d. April 13, 1884: she d. Feb. 28, 1881.
Resided in Auburn, Mass. +
8th gen. Children of Joanna and David Rockwood, (2567):
2177 Joanna Rockwood, b. Oct. 10, 1815; m. 1856, David Harwood;
she d. Tan. 5, 1857.
2578 David Rockwood, b. Nov. 29, 1816; m. Dec. 8, 1842, Ruth Burt;
he d. July 19, 1907.
2579 Chester Pomerov Rockwood, b. March 27, 1818; d. in infancy.
2580 LucRETiA Rockwood, b. March 29, 1820; d. 1836.
2581 Charles Henry Rockwood, b. Aug. 10, 1821 ; m. Sylvia Bigelow;d.
March 17, 1903.
2582 Joseph Rockwood, b. Feb. 10, 1823; m. Rhoda Hurd; he d.
March 25, 1904; she d. 1911.
2583 Samuel Winfield Rockwood, b. March 10, 1825; m. March 14,
1855, Miranda Stuart; he d. March 9, 1909.
2584 Hem AN Rockwood, b. March 10, 1827; m. (1) Almira Stuart;
m. (2) Ruth Stratton; he d. Nov. 16, 1870.
2585 Nathan Knowlton Rockwood, b. July 14, 1829; m. (1) Matilda
Stevens; m. (2) Lucy Coxson.
2586 Martha Rockwood, b. April 1, 1831; m. April 6, 1854, James
Babcock; she d. May 20, 1907.
2587 Laura Ann Rockwood, b. April 1, 1834; d. Sept., 1840.
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Child of Pomeroy and Marcia Knowlton, (2568):
2588 Sarah Knowlton, b. Oct. 9, 1825 ; m. in 1845, Theophilus Brown
of Worcester, Mass. ; she d. Dec. . 19, 1907. Resided in Wor-
cester.
Children of Olive and Curtis Fay, (2570):
2589 Chandler Swan Fay, b. Oct. 25, 1826; m. July 4, 1849, Julia
Mixer, b. in Brattleboro, Vt., May 13, 1828, dau. of John and
Margaret Richardson Mixer; he d. May 21, 1903.
2590 Augustus Maynard Fay, b. Jan. 25, 1828; m. (1) March 19,
1850, Caroline M. Peasley, b. Dec. 12, 1827. d. Julv 22, 1892; he
m. (2) Mrs. Elvira Sanborn; he d. Feb. 4, 1890.
2591 Elizabeth Jane Fay, b. Sept. 13, 1829; m. Dec. 24, 1850, Rev.
William Wingate Snell, b. April 3, 1821, d. Feb. 27, 1901; she d.
Jan. 28, 1888.
2592 Adeline Eliza Fay, b. March 29, 1831 ; m. Feb. 16, 1858, Wil-
liam Danforth, b. Tune 30, 1832, d. May 10, 1892.
2593 Henry Brigham Fay, b. Dec. 22, 1832; m. Nov. 11, 1852, Abby
Butler.
2594 Martha Maria Fay, b. Jan. 28, 1835 ; m. Dec. 8, 1888, Rev. \yil-
liam Wingate Snell, (who had previously married her sister, Eliza-
beth Jane) ; she d. April 15, 1909.
Children of Arad and Sophia Knozvlton, (2571):
2595 Norman W. Knowlton, b. Sept. 3, 1826; d. March 29, 1893;
unm.
2596 Nancy Sophia Knowlton, b. May 5, 1830; d. Nov. 14, 1874;
unm.
Children of Mary and Luther Waters, (b. Halifax, except Lu-
ther), (2572):
2597 Pomeroy Knowlton Waters, b. Jan. 13, 1823; d. Sept. 19, 1824,
Halifax, Vt.
2598 Mary Lucretia Waters, b. May 7, 1824; d. March 17, 1831.
2599 Esther Maria Waters, b. Sept. 7, 1825; m. March 21, 1850,
Thomas W. Stebbins; d. June 10, 1877, at Rochester, Minn.
2600 Olive Almira Waters, b. Sept. 13, 1828; m. (1) Oct. 17, 1803,
Levi C Smith; he d. Sept. 11, 1879; she m. (2) Aug., 1882, Moses
Gerard, at Allegan, Mich.; she d. at Allegan, April 5, 1891.
2601 Luther Newcomb Waters, b. Nov. 14, 1830, at Vernon, V^t. ; d.
April 10, 1832, at Halifax.
2602 Laura Sophia Waters, b. June 2, 1832; m. Oct. 17, 1853, Stephen
L. Chapman ; he d. Feb. 26, 1895.
2603 Susan Louisa Waters, b. Jan. 17, 1834; m. April, 1857, Truman
M. Watson; she d. March 1, 1860, at Shelbum Falls, Mich.
2604 Anna Clarinda Waters, b. May 8, 1836; m. June 23, 1867, John
D. Chapman, Brattleboro, Vt. ; she d. Dec. 29, 1911.
2605 Cynthia Relief Waters, b. Nov. 11, 1837; m. April 4, 1865, Wil-
lard DeWolf ; d. at Boston.
2606 Clarissa Calista Waters, b. May 15, 1839; m. (1) Nov. 13, 1856,
Samuel K. Blandin, at Townsend, Vt., who d. July 28, 1863 ; she m.
(2) Dec. 24, 1865, Albert A. Alexander.
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2607 AsAHEL Knowlton Waters, b. Oct. 1, 1841; m. Jennie Hendry;
he d. 1905, at Lx)s Angeles, Cal.
2608 Hon. Russell Judson Waters, b. June 6, 1843 ; m. Nov. 25, 1869,
Adelaide M. Ballard, b. 1848, at Charlemont, Mass., d. 1902, dau. of
Jonathan Ballard and Sophia Bumham Brown; he d. Sept. 25, 1911,
Los Angeles, Cal. Banker; Member of Congress, 7th California
District, 1898-1900. Res., Los Angeles, Cal. +
2609 Joanna Luthera Waters, b. May 22, 1845; m. Feb. 22, 1865,
Edmund Richmond; she d. March 1, 1869, at Shelburne Falls,
Mass.
Children of Lucy M. and Nathaniel S, Clark, (2573):
2611 Nathaniel Henry Clark, b. Oct. 28, 1828; m. (1) Arinda Tol-
man; m. (2) Maria N. Nourse. Resided in Worcester, Mass.
2612 Stella Luthera Clark, b. Sept. 13, 1830; m. Svlvester S. Pierce;
she d. Oct. 31, 1901; he d. March 25, 1889. 'Resided in Wor-
cester, Mass.
2613 HoLLis Knowlton Clark, b. April 20, 1832; m. Esther L. Pierce
(sister of Sylvester) ; she d. Jan. 5, 1900.
2614 Samuel Smith Clark, b. Feb. 14, 1834; m. Elizabeth Bancroft;
he d. Jan. 25, 1905. Resided in Providence, R. I.
2615 Lucy Ann Clark, b. 1836; d. in infancy.
2616 Frederick Maynard Clark, b. March 23, 1839; m. Nov. 14, 1860,
Emeline Allen. Resided in Worcester, Mass.
Children of Asahel and Sophronia Knowlton, (2574):
2617 John Pomeroy Knowlton, b. Oct. 8, 1833; m. Nov. 29, 1859,
Jane Shumway of Webster, Mass.
2618 Sarah Sophronia Knowlton, b. Sept. 19, 1836; m. Aug. 7, 1856,
William Smith Wood.
2619 Marcia Ann Knowlton, b. Jan. 20, 1842; m. Nov. 28, 1872, John
N. Harrington.
Children of Swan and Sarah E. Knowlton, (2575):
2620 Sarah Ann Knowlton, b. Jan. 4, 1832; m. Sept. 12. 1851, Wil-
liam R. Barrett, who d. Jan. 12, 1903 ; she d. Nov. 27, 1905. Res.,
Barre, Mass.
2621 Nathan Maynard Knowlton, b. Dec. 5, 1836; m. Nov. 22, 1862,
Harriet E. Bailey. Resided in Westboro, Mass.
2622 Maria Augusta Knowlton, b. April 6, 1840; m. March 20, 1861,
Albert L. Smith. Resided in Worcester, Mass.
Children of Luthera and Ezra Rice, (2576):
2623 Susan Luthera Rice, b. Aug. 17, 1834; d. Feb. 23, 1851.
2624 Emily Miriam Rice, b. July 27, 1838; d. Aug. 9, 1865.
2625 Nancy Feronia Rice, b. July 28, 1840; m. May 1, 1862, Rev.
Charles Carroll Carpenter, b. in Bemardstown, Mass., July 9, 1836,
son of Dr. Elijah Woodward Carpenter and wife Vallonia Slate;
Hamilton College, 1859, A.M., (honoranr), and Dartmouth, 1887;
gr. Andover Theological Seminary, 1875; missionary on coast of
Labrador, 1858-64; Congregational minister and journalist. +
2626 George Dwicht Rice, b. April 16, 1842; Civil War soldier, Co. C,
f
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51st Regt., Mass. Vol. Inf.; d. in hospital at Newbern, N. C,
March 9, 1863.
2627 Selina Almeda Rice, b. June 20, 1844; m. June 20. 1871, Simon
Augustus Perrin. b. March 28, 1847, d. Oct. 2, 1875.
2628 Abbie Lurelia Rice, b. July 5, 1853; m. May 14, 1885, Samuel
Albert Sinnicks; she d. Aug. 8, 1892.
pth gen. Children of Russell /. and Adelaide M. J Voters, (2608J:
2629 Arthur Jay Waters, b. March 4, 1871, Chicago; m. June 7, 1899,
at Los Angeles, Cal., Charlotte C. Miller, dau. of W. T. and Kate
C. Miller.
2630 Effie Ballard Waters, b. June 28, 1873, Chicago; d. Feb. 19,
1874, Chicago.
2631 Albert Judsox Waters, b. March 16, 1876, Chicago: d. July 7,
1876, Chicago.
2632 Mabel Knowlton Waters, b. Nov. 27, 1877. Chicago.
2633 Florence Lillian Waters, b. June 23, 1886, Chicago; m. June
14, 1911, at Los Angeles, Cal., EH Perrin Fay.
2634 Myrtle Adelaide Waters, b. Jan. 21, 1889, Redlands, Cal.
Children of Nancy F. and Cltarles C. Carpenter, (2625):
2635 George Rice Carpenter, b. Oct. 25, 1863, Eskimo River Station,
Labrador ; gr. Harvard, D.C.L. ; University of the South, 1906 ;
Professor of English, Columbia University, 1903 till death ; author
of text-books in English grammar and rhetoric, and of biographies
of Longfellow, Whittier and Whitman. He m. June 11, 1890, Mary
Seymour; he d. April 8, 1909.
2636 Charles Lincoln Carpenter, b. Tune 17, 1867, Amherst, Mass.;
gr. Dartmouth, 1887; Thayer School of Civil Engineering, 1889;
civil engineer in Nicaragua, Panama and Cuba. He m. Dec. 15,
1892, Charlotte Florence Sullivan.
2637 William Bancroft Carpenter, b. Feb. 10, 1869, lookout Moun-
tain, Tenn.; gr. Harvard, 1890; A.M., 1891; teacher of mathe-
matics; head of department of mathematics. Mechanic Arts High
School, Boston, where he has taught since 1897; he m. Dec. 21,
1893, Katharine Mary Hoyt.
2638 Jane Brodie Carpenter, b. Nov. 4, 1871, Lookout Mountain.
Tenn.; gr. Mount Holyoke, 1897; A.M., Columbia University,
1901 ; teacher of English ; Alumnae Secretary of Abbot Academy,
Andover, since 1909.
2639 Miriam Feronia Carpenter, b. Sept. 21, 1881, Mount V^ernon,
N. H. ; gr. Colorado College, 1905; private secretary.
PHINEAS ASHLEY POMEROY, {Josiah, Josiah, Ebeneser,
Medad, Eltweed), b. Dec. 10, 1764; m. Elizabeth Moore, b. March
4, 1777, d. May 15, 1836; he d. July 5, 1831. Resided in New-
fane, Vt.
7th gen. Children, all 6. in Newfane:
2MQ John Moore Pomeroy, b. May 6, 1800. +
2641 Nancy Pomeroy, b. Jan. 28, 1803. +
2642 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. Dec. 2, 1808. +
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2643 Wright Pomeroy, b. May 16, 1810. +
2644 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. Oct 7, 1815. +
901 JOSIAH POMEROY, (Josich, JosiaK Ebenezer, Mcdad, Elt-
weed), b. Sept. 1, 1767, in Warwick, Mass.; m. Mary Barnes, b.
March 29, 1765, Marlborough, d. June 5, 1816, in Warwick, Mass.,
dau. of Abraham Barnes and Mary Stevens; he m. (2) Sept. 4,
1817, at Gill, Mass., Hannah D. Field; he d. in Gill, Mass., March
18, 1848.
yth gen. Children:
2645 Polly Pomeroy, b. June 16, 1794. +
2646 Erastus Pomeroy, b. May 31, 1796. +
2647 Swan Lyman Pomeroy, b. March 4, 1799. +
2648 Adeline Pomeroy, b. June 25, 1805. +
903 AARON POMEROY, {Josiah, Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad, Bit-
weed), b. May 27, 1772, in Warwick, Mass.; m. Abigail Burrell;
d. 1821, Roxbury. Resided in Roxbury, where his children were
bom.
7th gen. Children:
2649 William Henry Pomeroy, b. 1803. +
2650 JosiAH Wright Pomeroy, b. in 1804. 4-
2651 Frances Pomeroy, b. 1806; d. 1882.
2652 Herbert Pomeroy, b. 1807; d. 1853.
2653 Annetta Pomeroy, b. 1808; d. 1845.
905 ARAD POMEROY, {Josiah, Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltiveed),
b. July 31, 1776; m. about 1806. Resided in Warwick and Salem,
Mass.
Jth gen. Children:
2654 Sarah Pomeroy, b. about 1808. +
2655 Nancy Pomeroy, b. 1814. +
907 HEXRY POMEROY, {Josiah, Josiah, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Aug. 11, 1782; m. Jan. 21, 1807, Fanny Mayo; d. at
Salem, Mass., April 8, 1820. Resided in Salem and Roxbury.
7th gen. Children:
2656 Edward Henry Pomeroy, b. March 24, 1808. +
2657 Caleb Mayo Pomeroy, b. Aug. 8, 1810. +
2658 Frances Pomeroy, b. March 7, 1813. +
2659 Susan Pomeroy, b. March 23, 1815. +
2660 Charles Stuart Pomeroy, b. Aug. 2, 1817; d. Feb. 10, 1855, in
New Orleans, La. He was a lawyer, with a good practice in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and had been a diligent student of Pomeroy
genealogy. His facts and evidence were so complete and satis-
factory concerning the connection of the descendants of Eltweed
Pomeroy with the family that had resided in Devonshire for cen-
turies, that he left his business in the hands of a friend and
started for London, but d. at New Orleans on the way. He
held that the title to some of the estate in England was perfect,
as Eltweed's father Richard had been a victim of conspiracy while
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he was in ward to a false administrator. It is thought that all
of his papers were lost at the time of his death in New Orleans,
although his niece, Susan Pomeroy Ladd, dau. of Caleb Mayo
Pomeroy, was for a time supposed to have the documents.
948 SAMUEL POMEROY, (Benjamin, Josiah, Ebcneccr, Medad,
Eltweed), b. Oct. 27, 1771 ; m. Amy Curtis. They settled at Derby-
line, Vt;, and subsequently removed to Canada, where he died.
7th gen. Children:
2661 Minerva Lewis Pomeroy, b. Aug. 16, 1797. +
2662 MiNOT Pomeroy. 2664 Amy Pomeroy.
2663 Esther Pomeroy. 2665 Cynthia Pomeroy.
919 LYDIA POMEROY, (Benjamin, Josiah, Ebenecer, Medad, EH-
weed), b. Aug. 11, 1773; m. 1792, Rev. Elnathan Graves, b. Feb.
2, 1763, in Hatfield, son of Capt. Perez Graves of Williamsburg,
Mass.; she d. 1866. Resided in Williamsburg.
7th gen. Children:
2666 Fidelia Graves, b. June 6, 1793; m. Aug. 19, 1810, Rev. Henry
Lord of Williamsburg; she d. soon; he m. (2) Minerva Graves,
her sister.
2667 Chester Graves, b. Feb. 22, 1795; d. unm.
2668 Emily Graves, b. Jan. 5, 1797; m. May 27, 1822. Hon. Samuel
Williston, of Easthampton, b. June 17, 1793, d. July 18, 1874; he
was founder of the Williston Sanitarium; she d.
2669 Minerva Graves, b. March 20, 1799; m. Rev. Henry Lord (his
second wife).
2670 Mary Ann Graves, b. Sept. 5, 1802; m. Eli Graves of Wil-
liamsburg.
2671 Lydia Graves, b. Nov. 13, 1807; m. Joel Hayden of Haydens-
ville, ex-Lieutenant-Govemor of Massachusetts.
950 JUDGE SELAH POMEROY, (Benjamin, Josiah, Ebcnczcr, Me-
dad, Eltweed), b. Oct. 7, 1775; m. (1) 1795, Hannah, dau. of
Capt. Abel T. Thayer; she d. in 1821; m. (2) Jan. 14, 1823, Mrs.
Mary (Goss) Lawrence of St. Johnsburg, \'^t., who d. April 13.
1837, dau. of Major Philip Goss of Winchester, N. H., and widow
of Deacon Hubbard Lawrence of St. Johnsburg, Vt. ; he m. (3)
in 1839, Mrs. Harriet M. Buck of Montreal, Canada. Selah Pom-
eroy was enterprising and capable in business affairs, and his
means for doing good had fair increase. His prudence and good
judgment secured for him the confidence of the public. He was
for a long number of years agent for lands in his vicinity, and
was respected as a magistrate for his active administration of jus-
tice for the peace of the community. After becoming an active
Christian, his influence increased, and with the abundant means
for doing good enjoyed by few men, he won the respect and es-
teem of all for his consistent discretion. He was an exemplary
and faithful Deacon of the Church of Christ as long as life and
Strength continued. As a magistrate he was just in all his de-
cisions, but in the year 1843 his house, barn and other buildings
were burned to the ground by an incendiary whom he had con-
victed of selling whiskey without a license. He had been a Deacon
of the Congregational Church twenty-five years, at the time of
his death, in Stanstead, Canada, Dec. 23, 1856. He had resided in
Brookfield, Vt., many years.
yth gen. Children, by ist wife:
2672 Hazen Pomeroy, b. April 20, 1796. +
2673 QuARTus Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1798. +
2674 Benjamin Pomeroy, b. Dec. 28, 1800. +
2675 Cordelia Pomeroy, b. Jan. 2, 1804. +
S51 JOSIAH POMEROY, (Benjamin, Josiah, Ebenecer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Jan. 5, 1778; m. Ruth, dau. of Josiah Thayer; she d. at
the age of 68 years; he m. (2) Charlotte Smith, who d. at Hins-
dale, Mass.; he m. (3) Mrs. Phebe Hannum, who d. at the home
of his daughter, Eleanor Pomeroy Field. Resided in Hinsdale,
Mass.
/th gen. Children, by 1st wife:
2676 Eli Pomeroy, b. Feb. 14, 1800; d. Oct. 10, 1801.
2677 Maria Pomeroy, b. Aug. 18, 1801. +
2678 AsAHEL Pomeroy, b. April 27, 1804. +
2679 Benjamin Pomeroy, b. April 11, 1807. 4-
2680 Ruth Denton Pomeroy, b. Nov. 1. 1810. +
2681 Josiah Pomeroy, b. Dec. 10, 1813. +
2682 Eleanor Pomeroy, b. May 1, 1816. +
2683 Sarah Pomeroy, b. June 4, 1820. +
954 DEACON WILLIAM POMEROY, {Benjamin, Josiah, Ebcnczer,
Medad. Eltiveed), b. July 24, 1785; m. Jan. 24, 1808, Rachel, dau.
of Capt. Oliver Edwards of Chesterfield; she d. Jan. 20, 1859; he
d. in 1876. Resided in Williamsburg, Mass.
yth gen. Children:
2684 Julia Ann Pomeroy, b. June 14, 1811. +
2685 Nancy Parsons Pomeroy, b. April 27, 1813. +
2686 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. April 30, 1816. +
2687 Cynthia Maria Pomeroy, b. Feb. 3, 1823. +
955 MARY POMEROY, {Benjamin, Josiah, Ebenezer, Mcdad, Elt-
weed)y b. Sept. 4, 1887, in Williamsburg, Mass.; m. Oct. 2, 1820,
Moses Montague of Sunderland, Mass., (having previously m.
Susan Lee, who d. Aug. 19, 1811), b. Jan. 9, 1782, d. Oct., 1863;
she d. Oct. 6, 1881, aged 94 years and 1 month. They resided
in or near Sunderland all their married life, and d. there.
7th gen. Children:
Two infants, d. soon; also, two daughters m. but whose names
we have been unable to ascertain.
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2688 Esther Pomeroy Montague, m. Feb. 21, 1844, Edmund Hobart
of North Amherst, Mass. +
8th gen. Child of Esther P. and Edmund Hobart, (2688):
2689 Moses Montague Hobart, graduated from Amherst College, class
of 1872; entered Columbia Law School, graduating in 1875; sailed
for Europe in 1873, traveling until fall of 1884. He settled in
Cleveland, Ohio, practicing law; was city prosecuting attorney, and
acted as clerk of the city board of improvements and as mayor's
clerk, holding the latter office two years; he was a 32d degree
Mason.
MARTHA LAW POMEROY, (Seth, Seth, Ebcnezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. 1773; m. about 1795, Elijah P. White, a lawyer of
Northfield and Ashfield, Mass., b. 1760; she d. Jan., 1842.
7th gen. Children:
2690 Elijah White. 2692 John White.
2691 William White.
961 THADDEUS POMEROY, M.D., {Quartus, Seth, Ebenezcr, Me-
dad, Eltweed), b. Oct. 23, 1764, in Northampton, Mass.; m. April
23, 1797, Eliza Mason Sedgwick, b. April 30, 1775, d. Oct. 15,
1827, dau. of Hon. Theodore Sedgwick and Pamelia Dwight; he
graduated from Harvard, class of 1786, and applied himself to
the study of medicine; he d. at Stockbridge, Mass., March 2, 1847.
After practicing as a physician for a short time, Thaddeus Pomeroy
relinquished his profession to become a partner in a druggist es-
tablishment in Albany, N. Y. There his capacity for business and
his qualifications for this particular branch insured his success.
In 1806, on account of impaired health, he resolved to retire from
the drug business and removed to Stockbridge, where he soon be-
came active in the interests of that community, and in the raising
of fine breeds of sheep and the improvement of his farm. He
resided here upward of forty years. His strongly marked char-
acter, in which were blended qualities not always united, exerted
a large and salutary influence. To fine physical courage and an
energy that never failed, he added a humane and equitable temper.
From early training and habit, he was frugal and economical, yet
always generous and hospitable, liberal in any public enterprise,
and always ready to assist his less prosperous neighbors.
In his religious opinions, he adhered to the faith of his orthodox
fathers, but his sympathies were not confined to any one creed,
and he honored Christianity under whatever name. His truth
was unalterable; his honesty inflexible; his friendships unchanging;
his enmities strong and his prejudices unyielding. To a social
disposition, and a vein of humor peculiarly his own, he added a
courtesy of the old school, and until the last days of his life never
relaxed in those little attentions to his person which he considered
a part of the manner of an American gentleman. Through a long
and distressing illness his consciousness remained to the last, and
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he looked death in the face, not only without fear but with the
confidence of a Christian, leaving an example of those hardy
virtues, the natural growth of times of conflict and difficulty, with-
out which no person however prosperous can be safe or respect-
able. With a manner sometimes abrupt, perhaps even harsh, he
had a woman's tenderness, with a wholesome regard for order
and method, but was inclined to resent a trespass in his respect
for principle. — Local Obituary,
7th gen. Children, b. at Stockbridge except Elizabeth:
2693 Theodore Sedgwick Pomeroy, b. March 1, 1798. +
2694 George Williams Pomeroy, b. Nov. 2, 1799; d. March 29, 1856;
unm.
2695 Egbert Benson Pomeroy, b. June 3, 1801 ; d. July 14, 1825 ; unm.
2696 Pamelia Dwight Pomeroy, b. April 22, 1803; d. Nov. 30, 1804.
2697 Elizabeth Pamela Pomeroy, b. Jan. 19, 1805, in Albany, N. Y. +
2698 Ebenezer Watson Pomeroy, b. May 12, 1806; graduated from
Norwich University of Vt., class of 1825; m. Maria, dau. of John
AuU and Margaret Fortune of Lexington, Mo.; he went to St.
Louis, thence to California, where he died June 22, 1861 ; she d.,
8. p.
2699 Frances Susan Pomeroy, b. Dec. 18, 1807 ; d. May 6, 1853.
2700 Catherine Eliza Pomeroy, b. Sept. 14, 1809. +
2701 Julia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 4, 1812. +
2702 Charles Sedgwick Pomeroy, b. Aug. 30, 1813; d. Nov. 4, 1850;
unm.
2703 Mary Pomeroy, b. Feb. 5, 1815; d. June, 1872; unm.
2704 Thaddeus Pomeroy, b. Sept. 6, 1817; d. Dec. 20, 1857.
962 PHEBE POMEROY, {Quartus, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
zveed), b. Feb. 9, 1766, Northampton; m. Jan. 8, 1788, Hon. John
Tallmadge, b. Sept. 19, 1757, d. Feb. 24, 1823, son of the Rev.
Benjamin and Susanna Tallmadge of New Haven, Conn. He was
for fourteen sessions a member of the Connecticut State Legisla-
ture, and a delegate to the State Convention in 1818. Mrs. Tall-
madge d. Dec. 13, 1842. Res., Warren, Conn.
ph gen. Children:
2705 Laura Tallmadge, b. Nov. 15, 1788; m. Gen. John James Tall-
madge of New York, b. 1778, d. 1853; lawyer; member of Con-
gress, 1817-1819; she d. Feb. 21, 1836. +
2706 Phebe Sheldon Tallmadge, b. April 7, 1790; m. 1817, Rev.
Stephen Mason; she d. Sept. 28, 1839, at Marshall, Mich. +
2707 Major Charles Benjamin Tallmadge, b. May 25, 1792; m.
Margaret Kennedy (widow of Col. Archer) ; he d. Dec. 31, 1832. +
2708 Frances Fowler Tallmadge, b. May 5, 1795; m. Oct. 5, 1824,
Rev. John Marsh, who d. 1868; she d. Dec. 27, 1852. +
2709 John Smith Tallmadge, b. July 30, 1798; m. Ann Eliza Smith
of Albany, N. Y., who d. 1823; he d. Oct. 17, 1825, at Lyons,
N. Y. +
2710 George Pomeroy Tallmadge, b. June 15, 1802; m. Sept. 15, 1829,
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Clarissa Bassett of Milton, Conn.; he m. (2) Emily Abbott; he
d. May 1, 1861, at Warren, Conn. +
8th gen. Children of Laura and Gen. John J. Tallmadge, (2705):
2711 John James Tallmadge. b. July 26, 1811; d. Jan. 19, 1819.
2712 James Edward Tallmadge, d. young.
2713 Sutherland Tallmadge, d. young.
2714 Mary Rebecca Tallmadge, m. in 1839, Philip van Rensselaer of
Albany, N. Y.
Children of Phebe S. and Rev. Stephen Mason, (2706):
2715 Ebenezer Porter Mason, b. 1819; d. 1840.
2716 David Burr Mason, b. 1821 ; d. 1840.
2717 Laura Tallmadge Mason, b. Sept. 21, 1824; m. Nov. 27. 1845.
Henry C. Haskell; she d. March 11, 1875; he m. (2) Jan. 8, 1879,
Mrs. Matilda D. Morse.
Children of Major Charles B. and Margaret Tallmadge, (2J07):
2718 Julia Tallmadge, b. 1829; m. in England, the Rev. W. Reynolds
Ogle; she d. 1862.
2719 Cora Tallmadge, b. Oct. 17, 1833; m. June 6, 1866, James Mc-
Laren Breed Dwight, who d. 1897.
Children of Frances F. and Rev, John Marsh, (2708):
2720 John Tallmadge Marsh, D.D., b. Dec. 17, 1825; m. in 1853,
Susan Horton; he d. March 21, 1884, at Etna, Cal.
2721 Frances Anne Marsh, b. Oct. 29, 1827.
2722 Mary Brimmer Marsh, b. July 22, 1829; d. Dec. 27, 1902.
2723 Laura Louise Marsh, b. March 2i, 1831 ; d. Feb. 28, 1893.
2724 Charles Grant Marsh, b. Aug. 5, 1834; d. 1853, at Philadelphia.
2725 Ebenezer Grant Marsh, b. March 13, 1836; m. (1) Elizabeth
Devoe Palen ; m. (2)
Children of John S. and Ann E. Tallmadge, (2J09):
2726 John Tallmadge, d. about 1884.
2727 Charles Tallmadge, d. young.
Children of George P. and Clarissa Tallmadge, (2710):
2728 Helen Tallmadge, b. Oct. 28, 1830; m. Sept. 27, 1852, Orlando
Swift, b. Sept. 7, 1816, d. April 22, 1882, son of Ira Swift and
Grace Rogers; she d. Sept. 11, 1907. +
2729 Frances Tallmadge, b. Oct. 10, 1832; m. July 1, 1852, Dr. Or-
lando Middleton Brown; she d. Dec. 7, 1853; he m^ (2) Martha
Pomeroy Whittlesey (grand-niece of Phebe (Pomeroy) Tall-
madge).
2730 Laura Tallmadge, b. Sept. 10, 1835 ; d. Sept. 25, 1838.
Children of George P. and (2d wife) Emily Tallmadge, (2710):
2731 Florence Tallmadge, d. young.
2732 George Pomeroy Tallmadge.
pth gen. Children of Helen and Orlando Szvift, (2728):
2733 Tallmadge Swift, b, April 19, 1854; m. Oct. 16, 1894, Mary J.
Barr, b. Aug. 12, 1862, Ellington, Conn., dau. of B. Barr, manu-
facturer. Res., New Britain, Conn. +
31 1 l^ixtlf dtrntuOan - Mthah
2734 Grace Swift, b. Sept. 9, 1856; m. Oct. 17, 1885, William F. Cur-
tiss of Warren, Ct., son of Franklin A. and Clarissa Curtiss.
2735 Clarissa Swift, b. July 11, 1858; m. May 22, 1889, James E.
Brewer, Oneida, N. Y.
2736 Robert Swift, b. Oct. 8, 1859; m. (1) Oct. 4, 1893, Flora A.
Sacket, who d. July 4, 1894; he m. (2) June 21, 1905, Kathryn B.
Belden. Res., Warren, Conn.
2737 WiLKiE Swift, b. June 21, 1861 ; d. May 17, 1862.
2738 Herbert Swift, b. Sept. 9, 1864; m. Sept. 2, 18%, Ada DeWolf
Gould. Res., New Britain, Conn.
2739 Helen M. Swift, b. May 25, 1868; m. Oct. 1, 1895, Edwin C.
Andrews. Res., Greenwich, Conn.
2740 Orlando E. Swift, b. Aug. 8, 1871; m. Bertha H. Swift. Res.,
New Britain, Conn.
2741 Evelyn S. Swift, b. Sept. 7, 1873; unm. Res., Greenwich, Conn.
JOth gen. Children of Tallmadge and Mary J, Swift, (2733):
2742 Katharine Swift, b. Oct. 25, 1895, Hartford, Conn.
2743 Irene Swift, b. Dec. 21, 1896, Hartford.
2744 Orlando Barr Swift, b. June 3, 1901, Hartford.
2745 Barbara Tallmadge Swift, b. Oct. 2, 1903, Hartford.
963 MARTHA POMEROY, {Quartus, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, ElU
weed), b. Feb. 15, 1768, in Northampton; m. May 19, 1798, David
Whittlesey (his second wife) of Washington, Conn., b. Aug. 18,
1750, d. Jan. 31, 1825, son of Eliphalet and Dorothy (Kellogg)
Whittlesey; he was one of the first settlers at Kingston Roll, June
2, 1769; he served in the Revolutionary War; was Deputy Sheriff
fifteen years. Justice of the Peace 1792, 1793 to 1807, 1810, 1813,
1814; he was appointed deacon April 22, 1807.
7th gen. Children:
2746 Prof. Frederick Whittlesey, b. June 12, 1799; gr. Yale Col-
lege; m. Sept. 12, 1825, Anna Hinsdale; he was V ice-Chancellor
of the 8th Judicial Circuit of New York, and was Professor of
Law in Genesee College at the time of his death, Sept. 19, 1851. +
2747 Frances Pomeroy Whittlesey, b. June 26, 1801, Washington,
Conn.; m. Oct. 31, 1821, William Camp Cogswell, b. Sept 4, 1796,
d. Jan. 3, 1874, son of Stephen and Anna (Camp) Cogswell of
Washington, Conn.; she d. Oct. 22, 1837. +
2748 David Chester Whittlesey, b. March 29, 1803, at Washington;
m. Oct. 2, 1823, Mary Cogswell, b. March 27, 1802, d. April 20,
1880, dau. of Stephen and Anna (Camp) Cogswell; he d. Oct. 13,
1883. +
2749 William Sheldon Whittlesey, b. Nov. 3, 1806; he held the
position of County Treasurer of Monroe County, N. Y. ; d. Sept.
11, 1849, at Hartford, Conn.; unm.
8th gen. Children of Frederick and Anna Whittlesey, b. Roches-
ter, (2746):
2750 Edgar Whittlesey, b. June 11, 1826; d. June 24, 1836.
dtneniass of ttfe Pomrrog IFamilg 312
2751 Frederick Augustus Whittlesey, b. Aug. 1, 1827; m. in 1860,
Julia Little.
2752 Martha Ann Whittlesey, b. Feb. 13, 1829: d. Sept. 13, 1834.
2753 Mary Matthews Whittlesey, b. July 4, 1831 ; unm.
2754 Theodore Hinsdale Whittlesey, b. Dec. 17, 1833; m. in 1861,
Frances Coleman; he d. 1886, leaving a widow and children in
Buffalo, N. Y. +
2755 Thurlow Weed Whittlesey, b. Dec. 16, 1835; d. Sepv. 10,
1892; unm.
2756 Frances Cogswell Whittlesey, b. July 14, 1837.
2757 William Seward Whittlesey, b. July 5, 1840; m. in 1868, Clara
J. Walker. +
2758 Ann Louisa Whittlesey, b. April 30, 1844; m. in 1872, Frederick
W. Oliver; he d. 1889. +
Children of Frances and IVilliam C, Cogswell, b. Woodbury,
Conn,, (2747):
2759 Frederick Whittlesey Cogswell, b. Nov. 27, 1823; m. in 1871,
Julia M. Radcliffe; he d. Oct. 10, 1891, +
2760 William Egbert Cogswell, b. June 21. 1825; m.
2761 Martha Pomeroy Cogswell, b. June 27, 1828; d. June 23, 1854;
unm.
2762 Frances Susan Cogswell, b. June 14, 1830; m. Asahel Mitchell;
she d. July 22, 1861.
2763 Mary Ann Cogswell, b. Jan. 29, 1832; d. Nov. 8, 1836.
2764 David Chester Cogswell, b. Sept. 16, 1834; d. Dec. 5, 1836.
2765 Maria Jane Cogswell, b. Oct. 28, 1836.
Children of David C. and Mary Whittlesey, (2748):
2766 David Eliphalet Whittlesey, b. Sept. 18, 1824, at Washington,
Conn.; d. April 21, 1826.
2767 Martha Pomeroy Whittlesey, b. Aug. 11, 1827; m. July 2, 1856,
Orlando Middleton Brown, M.D., (his second wife), b. April 13,
1827, gr. Yale College, d. Aug. 3, 1904, son of Benjamin and Mary
(Middleton) Brown. +
2768 John Eliphalet Whittlesey, b. May 22, 1830, at Park Avenue
Hotel, N. Y. City; d. March 18, 1909, Washington, Conn.
2769 Frederick Whittlesey, b. Sept. 25, 1833; m. (1) Maria Gilbert,
who d. 1879; he m. (2) Mary Swift, who d. 1894. +
2770 Fanxv Pomeroy Whittlesey, b. Oct. 14, 1835; m. in 1864, Wil-
liam N. Felt. 4-
p/A gen. Children of Theodore H. and Frances Whittlesey, (2754):
2754.1 Frank Coleman Whittlesey, m. Gertrude Taylor. Res., Buf-
falo, N. Y.
2754.2 Frederick Whittlesey, m. Public accountant and auditor. Res.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
2754.3 Emily Coleman Whittlesey, m. George W. Armstrong. Res.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
2754.4 Henry Tucker Whittlesey, m. Jessie Niles Baynes, dau. of
Thomas Erskinc Baynes. Res., Detroit, Mich.
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Children of William S. and Clara J. Whittlesey, (2757) :
2771 William Clarence Whittlesey, b. 1869.
2772 Fanny Child Whittlesey, b. 1873; m. June 2, 1909, Benjamin
J. Hotchkiss, b. March 1, 1873, Dartmouth, Mass., son of Walter
I Russell Hotchkiss and wife Emma Louise Kelley.
2773 H. Whittlesey, b. 1878.
Children of Ann L. and Frederick W, Oliver, (2758):
2774 James O. Oliver, b. 1873.
2775 Frederick W. Oliver, b. 1875.
2776 Katharine H. Oliver, b. 1877.
2777 Harriet Seelve Oliver, b. Sept. 13, 1880; m. Feb. 15, 1911,
Norman Winthrop Mumford, b. Oct. 30, 186i8, son of George E.
Mumford and wife Julia Emma Hills of Rochester, N. Y.
2778 Anna Rebecca Oliver, b. 1884.
2779 Mary Frances Oliver, b. 1888.
Children of Frederick W. and Julia M. Cogswell, (2759):
2780 Mary Elizabeth Cogswell, b. 1872.
2781 Fanny Maria Cogswell, b. 1875.
2782 Lulu Belle Cogswell, b. 1879.
2783 Frederick Radcliffe Cogswell, b. 1881.
Children of Martha P. and Orlando M. Brown, (2767):
2784 Fanny Pomeroy Brown, b. Jan. 4, 1859, Wrentham, Mass.; Li-
brarian at Danbury, Conn.
2785 Mary Whittlesey Brown, b. Jan. 3, 1861; m. in 1893, John R.
Perkins; gr. of Dartmouth College; gr. of Normal School, Dan-
bury, Conn. +
2786 David Chester Brown, b. Nov. 16, 1863; m. in 1889, Catherine
Cobden ; he gr. Yale College. +
Children of Frederick and Maria Whittlesey, (2769):
279>7 Nellie Whittlesey, b. and d. 1863.
2788 Mary Whittlesey, b. 1865.
2789 Fanny Whittlesey, b. 1872.
Children of Fanny P. and William N. Felt, (2770):
2790 William Pomeroy Felt, b. 1865 ; m. in 1895, Caroline M. Bragair.
1^ 2791 Annie Shepherd Felt, b. 1869; m. in 1896, William E. Parker.
2792 Mary Whittlesey Felt.
loth gen. Children of Mary W. and John R, Perkins, (2785):
2793 Margaret Whittlesey Perkins, b. Nov. 27, 1897.
2794 John Russell Perkins, b. Feb. 19, 1899.
Children of David C and Katharine Brown, (2786):
2795 Orlando Cobden Brown, b. July 2, 1890; gr. Yale, Academic
Dept, 1911.
2796 David Chester Brown, b. July 9, 1900; d. Sept. 3, 1901.
2797 Catherine Helen Brown, 'b. March 22, 1906.
985 COL. SETH POMEROY, {Quartus, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. June 30, 1777, at Northampton; m. (1) Oct. 16, 1800,
(Sntralogti of tint Pomrrog Jifamilg 314
Sarah Kingsley, dau. of Enos Kingsley and Abigail Pomeroy; she
d. Aug. 16, 1801; he m. (2) Jan. 1, 1804, Hannah Wells, b. 1782,
d. 1861, dau. of Ashbel Wells and Abigail Kellogg; Ashbel Wells
was a descendant of Gov. Thomas and Hannah Pauston Wells
by Ebcnezer and Ichabod. Mr. Pomeroy united with the church
at Northampton, and in 1816 he removed to DeKalb, St. Lawrence
county, N. Y., where he became an Elder of the Presbyterian
church, and up to the time of his death he was an earnest and
conscientious Christian. In 1826 he went to Michigan to pass
the remainder of his days with his son, George Eltweed Pomeroy,
who was then the only survivor of seven children. He met death
with serenity and without great suffering. The sphere of his use-
fulness in the later days was the family and the church. The
peculiarity of his religion was in the faith that he "felt" the pres-
ence of his Maker. He lived from day to day in the belief that
God had arranged all his trials and losses for his spiritual good.
He never complained of Providence. No one who knew him ever
doubted the sincerity of his faith, the growth of his spiritual hope,
or the certainty of its being realized. He was a man of prayer,
and his family gave evidence that his prayers were answered by
the token that his example was with his children in their life and
death. If there was a defect in his character, it consisted in that
he lived so much in preparation for another world that he placed
too little value on the things of this. He d. at Palmyra, Mich.,
March 13, 1861.
yth gen. Child by ist wife:
2798 Daughter Pomeroy, b. Oct. 9, 1801 ; d. Aug. 23, 1807.
Children by 2d wife, b. in Northampton:
2799 QuARTus Wells Pomeroy, b. Oct. 25, 1805. +
2800 George Eltweed Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1807. +
2801 Henry Brown Pomeroy, b. Oct. 26, 1809; m. Eliza Warner; she
d. Sept. 7, 1852; he d. Aug. 24, 1852; no children.
2802 Martha Whittlesey Pomeroy, b. in 1811; d. March 24, 1834;
unm.
2803 Louis DwiGHT Pomeroy, b. June 18, 1813. +
2804 Maria Ashmun Pomeroy, b. July 17, 1815; d. April 14, 1840;
unm.
2805 Thaddeus Seth Pomeroy, b. Dec. 2, 1818; d. Dec. 14, 1848.
GEORGE POMEROY, (Quartus, Seth, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Aug. 8, 1779, in Northampton; m. May 16, 1803, Anne
Cooper, dau. of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper; she d.
April 17, 1870. Mr. Cooper was the fotmder of Coopcrstown, N.
Y., and in 1775, m. Elizabeth, the only child of Richard Fenimore
of Burlington, N. J. George Pomeroy d. Dec. 24, 1870.
7th gen. Children, all b. in Cooperstown, N, Y,:
2806 William Cooper Pomeroy, b. Nov. 15, 1804; d. 1805.
2807 Georgianna Cooper Pomeroy, b. Dec. 8, 1806. +
2808 Hannah Cooper Pomeroy, b. Nov. 15, 1808. +
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2809 William Cooper Pomeroy, b. Feb. 23, 1811; d. in infancy.
2810 George Quartus Pomeroy, b. Feb. 11, 1815. +
2811 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. Nov. 10, 1817; d. 1817.
2812 Ellen Cooper Pomeroy, b. Nov. 4, 1818; d. in infancy.
2813 Fenimore Cooper Pomeroy, b. (twin with Ellen), Nov. 4, 1818. +
2814 Edgar Cooper Pomeroy, b. July 3, 1820; d. young.
2815 Laura Cornelia Pomeroy, b. Sept. 3, 1823. +
967 RACHEL POMEROY, {Quartus, Seth, Ebeneser, Medad, Eli-
weed), b. July 4, 1781, Northampton; m. June 20, 1807, Robert
Campbell of Cooperstown, N. Y., b. Sept. 13, 1781, d. Aug. 31,
1847, son of Samuel and Jane (Cannon) Campbell; she d. Dec. 3,
1856. Resided in Cooperstown.
Jth gen. Children, b. Cooperstown, N. Y.:
2816 Julia Campbell, b. June 1, 1808; m. Feb. 23, 1830, Levi C Tur-
ner; she d. May 2, 1892. +
2817 Robert Pomeroy Campbell, b. Oct. 26, 1809; m. Dec. 3, 1834,
Helen Starkweather, dau. of Samuel and Marcia (Averill) Stark-
weather; he d. April 15, 1870. +
2818 William Campbell, b. Aug. 22, 1812; d. Sept., 1846.
2819 George Campbell, b. Sept. 6, 1814; d. Sept, 28, 1842.
2820 Jane Ann Campbell, b. Aug. 10, 1817 ; d. June 20, 1823.
2821 Theodore Campbell, b. Aug. 18, 1819; d. Nov. 15, 1843.
8th gen. Children of Julia and Levi C. Turner, (2816):
2822 Campbell Turner, b. March 13, 1831; m. Oct., 1855, Catherine
A. Scott; he d. May, 1857.
2823 Jane Turner, b. Aug. 21, 1833; m. Oct., 1853, William B. Ran-
dolph; she d. May 12, 1910. +
2824 Julia Pomeroy Turner, b. March 4, 1842; d. 1844.
2825 Theodore Campbell Turner, b. Jan. 24, 1845, Cleveland, O.;
m. June 6, 1878, Abbie Cory, b. July 21, 1851, Cooperstown, N. Y.,
dau. of William E. Cory and wife Samantha Ward; he d. Dec. 1,
1910, Cooperstown, N. Y. ; s. p. A local obituary said that in the
death of Mr. Theodore Campbell Turner the village had lost from
its business and social life a man who had long been identified
with its best enterprises. Upright in character, broad-minded,
public-spirited, and kind of heart, he had won the esteem and
friendship of his associates. For forty years he had been con-
nected with the First National Bank of Cooperstown, thirty years
as cashier; he was Vice-President at the time of his death; he
was also treasurer of the Thanksgiving hospital fourteen years.
Resolutions of sorrow were passed by the Cooperstown banks. He
was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Lx>yal
Legion, Sons of Veterans, and the Colonial Wars Society.
Children of Robert and Helen Campbell, (2817):
2&26 Julia Campbell, b. Aug. 28, 1835; d. Dec., 1841.
2827 Maria McGregor Campbell, b. March 3, 1838; m. Aug. 21, 1856,
Charles Henry Smith, M. D., Surgeon in United States Army, b.
(SrttraUisti of ti|» PomrroQ Ji^amUg 31fi
Aug. 20, 1819, Fredericksburg, Va., son of Charles Henry and
Evelina (Stone) Smith. +
2828 Helen Campbell, b. June 28, 1845; d. Sept., 1846.
p/A gen. Children of Jane and IVilliam B. Randolph, (2823):
2&29 Julia Randolph, b. Sept. 29, 1854; d. Nov., 1856.
2830 William B. Randolph, b. Aug. 26, 1870; m. Marie Lx>uise May,
who d. six months later.
Children of Maria M, and Charles H, Smith, (2827):
2831 Louisa Beverly Smith, b. June 2, 1857; d. Oct. 19, 1862.
2832 Roy Campbell Smith, b. July 16, 1858, at Fort Mason, Texas;
m. Oct. 11, 1887, Margaret Aldrich Sampson, b. Oct. 15, 1863, at
Palmyra, N. Y., dau. of William Thomas Sampson, Rear-Admiral,
United States Navy. Roy Campbell Smith entered the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, in 1874; served at sea on various stations;
was present in the naval engagement, July 3, 1898, off Santiago, on
board the battleship Indiana; and later commanded the cruiser
Chattanooga on the China station. His shore duty has comprised
the Naval Academy, the Torpedo Station, lecturer at Harvard Col-
lege, naval attache at Paris and St. Petersburg, War College, New-
port, R. I., and Navy Department, Washington, D. C. He ranks
as Captain in the United States Navy, is a gold-medalist of the
United States Naval Institute, and has been decorated by the
French Government in the Legion of Honor.
Capt. Roy C. Smith, U. S. N., has been appointed Commander to
the newest American battle-ship, the Arkansas. She is the largest
completed ship-of-war in the wprld. Captain Smith was on board but
not in command when the Arkansas made her trial trips (June 5, 1912)
after having escaped the rocks in the Two Bush Channel to Penob-
scot Bay, over which she scraped for more than forty feet, her small
water-tight compartments probably saving her from the dire fate
of the Titanic. +
2833 Charles Evelyn Smith, b. Aug. 9, 1862; m. Feb. 3, 1887. Stella
Hagan, b. 1860; he m. (2) June 1, 1901, Mrs. Sue Drayton Ship-
with, b. 1857, dau. of J. H. Bromley and Emma Drayton Baker.
Commercial broker. Res., Richmond, Va. +
2834 Julia Campbell Smith, b. May 6, 1864; m. Aug. 17, 1892, James
Frederick Olmsted, b. March 3, 1859, son of Levi and Maria M.
(Beach) Olmsted. Res.. Burlington, N. J.
2835 Ethel Evelyn Smith, b. Jan. 8, 1873, in Richmond, Va. ; m. July
2, 1894, William Festus Morgan, b. Dec. 21, 1866, at Lynn, Mass.,
son of William Festus Morgan and Emeline Brown. Res., Coopers-
town, N. Y., where their children were born. +
loth gen. Children of Roy C. and Margaret A, Smith, (2832):
2836 Rov Campbell Smith, Jr., b. July 25, 1888, at Annapolis, Md.
2837 Marjorie Sampson Smith, b. Aug. 1, 1890, at Palmyra, N. Y.
2838 Sampson Smith, b. June 29, 1900, at Cambridge, Mass.
ChUd of Charles E. and Stella Smith, (2833):
2839 Evelyn Stone Smith, b. Feb. 19, 1900, in Richmond, Va. ; d. Feb.
19, 1900.
3ir i^ixtli CSrnrratiott - Mthab
Children of Ethel E, and William F. Morgan, (2835):
2840 William Festus Morgan, Jr., b. Aug. 29, 1895.
2841 Robert Beverly Morgan, b. Dec. 18, 1900.
2842 Miles Morgan, b. July 10, 1902.
968 BETSEY POMEROY, {Quartus, Seth, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
iveed), b. Aug. 1, 1783, in Northamp^^on ; m. in 1810, James Dick-
enson, son of Tosiah and Wealthy (Shepherd) Dickenson; he d.
in 1824; she d.^Oct. 22, 1855.
jth gen. Children:
2843 Frances Pomeroy Dickenson, b. Feb. 18, 1812, in Toledo, Ohio;
ni. Sept. 17, 1838, James B. Lyman, b. Jan. 5, 1813, son of Theo-
dore Lyman and Susan Willard Whitney; she d.»Aug. 28, 1870. +
2844 James Shepherd Dickenson, b. Jan. 16, 1814; d. June 1, 1899;
b. Northampton.
2845 William Partridge Dickenson, b. 1816, in Northampton; m. in
1837, Sarah Sunderland; he d. April, 1874. +
2846 Mary Caroline Dickenson, b. June 27, 1820, in Northampton.
2847 George Pomeroy Dickenson, b. July 18, 1822, in Northampton;
m. in 1849, Mary Robinson; he d. 1896. +
8th gen. Children of Frances P. and James B. Lyman, (2843):
2848 Mary Dickenson Lyman, b. Tulv 19, 1840, in St. Louis, Mo.; m.
Oct. 20, 1868, in Toledo, Ohio^ Albert E. Scott.
2849 Henry Munson Lyman, b. March 18, 1843, in St. Louis, Mo.; d.
Sept. 4, 1843.
2850 Wyllys Pomeroy Lyman, b. Dec. 3, 1845, in Northampton, Mass. ;
d. Sept. 14, 1846.
Child of IVilliam P. and Sarah Dickenson, (2845):
2851 James Sunderland Dickenson, b. 1838; m. in 1862, Estella Gil-
bert.
Child of George P. and Mary Dickenson, (284J):
2852 Anna Marshall Dickenson, b. 1854; m. in 1830, Franklin Ed-
wards.
970 JULL\ POMEROY, (Quartus, Seth. Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Tune 10. 1787. in Northampton ; m. in 1806, Elihu Butler of
Hartford, Conn. ; Julia was for a few years the only surviving
grandchild of Major-General Seth Pomeroy; she d. at Plainfield,
Mass., Feb. 12, 1873.
ph gen. Children:
2853 Frances Pomeroy Butler, b. Sept. 2, 1807; m. Sept. 4, 1833,
Elijah Clark; she d. March 3, 1891. +
2854 Martha Butler, b. March 29, 1809 ; m. Jan. 12, 1835, John Rossel
Whittlesey, b. Oct. 10, 1809, d. April 21, 1880, son of John and
Ann (Kerwood) Whittlesey; she d. Dec. 3, 1883. +
2855 Julia Butler, b. Dec. 4, 181 1 ; m. Dec. 6, 1840, EH Morgan of
Hinsdale, N. H.; she d. Dec. 31, 1896. 4-
2856 Henry Butler, b. 1814; d. 1814.
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2857 Henry Butler, b. March 19, 1817; ra. July 13, 1850, Cornelia M.
Sackrider. +
2858 Janet Shepherd Butler, b. June 28, 1819; m. H. B. Claflin; d.
May 24, 1904; resided in Tryon, N. C.
2859 Caroline Butler, b. March 13, 1822; m. July 5, 1844, Henry
Lathrop.
2860 Emma Rachel Butler, b. Sept. 12, 1824; m. Rev. Charles Sum-
ner LeDuc, b. in 1821, son of Henry and Mary (Stowell) Le-
Duc. +
2861 Edward Whitman Butler, b. Jan. 4, 1829; m. and had two sons
who d. in childhood; he d. Sept. 8, 1865.
8th gen. Children of Frances P. and Elijah Clark, (2853):
2862 Charles Edgar Clark, b. July 28, 1834; d. Oct. 13, 1868.
2863 Theodore Pomeroy Clark, b. Nov. 20, 1837; d. April 20, 1860.
Children of Martha and John R, Whittlesey, (2854):
2864 Edward Newton Whittlesey, b. Dec. 14, 1835 ; m. Jan. 12, 1870,
Isabel M. Ives ; she d. May 8, 1879, s. p.
2865 John Whittlesey, b. July 1, 1839; m. June 9, 1865, Laura Bridg-
man Wood, b. 1839; he was a victim of the Northampton bank
robbery of 1876; he d. Nov. 30, 1894.
2866 Elihu Butler Whittlesey, b. Sept. 18, 1840; m. Aug. 4, 1865,
Mary Eden Smith; she d. Feb. 23, 1874; he m. (2) Oct. 26, 1876,
Isabel Wood Axtel ; he d. July 4, 1877, +
2867 Julia Pomeroy Whittlesey, b. Jan. 4, 1843; d. March 7, 1894;
unm.
2868 Mary Esther Whittlesey, b. Feb. 22, 1846; m. in 1895, L. S.
Elliott of Batavia, N. Y.
Children of Julia and Eli Morgan, (2855):
2869 William Morgan, b. 1842: m. June 2, 1876, Mary Wood; d.
June 21, 1876.
2870 Louis Edward Morgan, b. 1843; m. in 1872, Frances E. Kelly;
he d. 1878. +
2871 Charles Morgan, b. 1846; d. July, 1863.
2872 Julia Morgan, b. Feb. 10, 18. . . ; ni. Hamlin L. Chapman, b. Dec.
13, 1845; she d. Sept. 8, 1870.
Children of Henry and Cornelia M. Butler, (2857):
2873 Mary Pomeroy Butler, b. May 13, 1851; d. May 20, 1854.
2874 Henry Elijah Butler, b. May 3, 1853 ; d. May 3, 1857.
Children of Emma R, and Rev. Charles S. LeDuc, (2860):
2875 Edward Mills LeDuc, b. Sept. 17, 1857; d. Oct. 17, 1886.
2876 Mary Pomeroy LeDuc, b. Jan 30, 1860; m. June 25, 1879, Alfred
Bissell Chapin, D.D.S. +
p/A gen. Children of Elihu B. and Mary E. Whittlesey, (2866):
2S77 Theodore Pomeroy Whittlesey, b. Nov. 26, 1866.
2878 Charles Whittlesey, b. Aug 1, 1869.
2879 Mary Whittlesey, b. Aug. 22, 1872; d. Feb. 1, 1874.
Child of Mary P. and Alfred B. Chapin, (2876) :
2880 Gilbert LeDuc Chapin, b. Aug. 27, 1905.
310 i^ixtli CSrttrratiim - Mthah
973 MARTHA POMEROY, (Medad, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Aug. 5, 1773, in Warwick, Mass.; m. in 1792, Barnabas
Billings, gr. Brown University, A.M., B.U., b. in 1768, in North-
ampton, d. Nov. 14, 1824, son of Daniel Billings and Mary Rug-
gles; she d. May 16, 1845.
//A gen. Children:
2881 Mary Ann Billings, b. Jan. 30, 1795, in Northfield, Mass.; m.
Aug. 20, 1817, Martin Paige, b. Sept. 27, 1791, in Hardwick, d.
Dec. 7, 1872, son of Timothy Paige and Mary Robinson; she d.
Jan. 27, 1875. +
2882 Frederick Augustus Billings, b. March 12, 1798, in Northfield,
Mass.; m. Dec. 1, 1835, Lucy Gushing Bent, b. Jan. 12, 1810, in
Framingham, d. July 20, 1890, dau. of Mathias Bent and Isabella
Babcock. He was engaged in the transportation business with a
line of stage-coaches. Resided in Boston and Framingham; d.
Dec. 21, 1883. +
2883 Martha Billings, b. April 16, 1800, in Northfield, Mass.; m.
June 13, 1837, Russell Hayes (uncle of Rutherford B. Hayes), b.
Brattleboro, Vu May 31, 1784, d. July 28, 1856, son of Ruther-
ford Hayes and Chloe Smith; he had previously m. (1) Rhoda
Moody; (2) Hannah Lorinda Forbes; no issue to either mar-
riage; Martha d. Aug. 1, 1872, in Brattleboro, where her children
were bom. +
2884 Daniel Billings, b. March 7, 1802, Northampton; m. in 1827,
Sally Allen Tillotson, b. July 22, 1806, Northampton, d. Dec. 7,
1881; he d. Dec. 21, 1866. +
2885 Julia Pomeroy Billings, b. 1804; m. 1825, Dr. George Wright,
b. 1800, d. 1859; she d. 1889. +
8th gen. Children of Mary; A. and Martin Paige, (2881):
2886 Timothy Paige, b. Aug. 3,*1818, at Hardwick; m. Dec. 26, 1844,
Rebecca R, Osborne; he d. April 24, 1884.
2887 Frederick A. Paige, b. Nov. 6, 1819, at Hardwick; m. June 7,
1864, Alice B. Joslin ; he d. Nov. 4, 1898.
2888 George Paige, b. Aug. 17, 1821, Southbridge, Mass.; lost at sea
off Charleston harbor, S. C, April 3, 1855.
2889 Julta Billings Paige, b. Jan. 12, 1824; d. May 14, 1825, at
Northampton.
2890 Tames Paige, b. and d. 1824, at Northampton.
2891 Henry Paige, b. April 9, 1829, at Lowell, Mass.; m. Aug. 23,
1859, Caroline Maria Warner.
2892 Martha Pomeroy Paige, b. Jan. 4, 1832, at Greenfield, Mass.;
m. June 23, 1854, William Stone, b. May 1, 1827, d. Nov. 19, 1910,
Templeton, Mass., son of Leonard Stone and wife Lydia Richard-
son; she d. March 29, 1891, Templeton. +
2893 Sarah Pomeroy Paige, b. Sept. 9, 1837; d. Sept. 29, 1838.
Children of Frederick A. and Lucy C. Billings, (2882):
2894 Frederick Augustus Billings, b. Sept. 27, 1836, at Framingham;
m. April 14, 1866, Delia M. Pratt, b. 1836, d. 1878; he d. Aug.
8, 1909, at Framingham.
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2895 George C Billings, b. June 15, 1845, at Boston, Mass.; unm.
2896 Mary Abby Billings, b. Sept. 12, 1849; m. Nov. 15, 1882, Louis
D. Jackson of Boston, b. Jan. 27, 1827, at Lyme, Conn., d. July
16, 1898, son of Sylvester Jackson and Anna Cadwell.
2897 Edward Kirk Billings, b. Sept. 9, 1853, at Framingham; m.
April 14, 1881, Adeline W. Stanwood, b. 1858.
Children of Martha and Russell Hayes, b, in Brattleboro, Vt,,
(2883):
2898 Mary Billings Hayes, b. Oct. 3, 1838; m. Nov. 18, 1856, Wil-
liam Howard Bigelow, b. Dec. 21, 1829, at Greenwich, N. Y., d.
Aug. 22, 1882, son of Anson Bigelow and Eliza Moores; gr. Wil-
liams College; lumber merchant and manufacturer, at Brattleboro,
Vt +
2899 Martha Janette Hayes, b. March 14, 1841 ; m. in 1862, Joseph
N. Field, dealer in real estate in Sioux City; residence, 1883, in
England; she d. Jan. 23, 1864, s. p.
Children of Daniel and Sally A. Billings, (2884):
2900 Daniel Pomeroy Billings, b. Nov. 16, 1830; m. 1859, Mary Ann
Van Zandt.
2901 Martha Billings, b. Oct. 16, 1832, Royalston, Mass.; m. March
1852, Orrin S. Thwing, b. Sept. 25, 1828, Putney, Vt., d. April 15,
1908, Putney, Vt. ; she d. there May 25, 1895. +
2902 Mary Millen Billings, b. Aug. 27, 1834, at South Royalston,
Mass.; d. Jan. 8, 1892.
2903 Julia Maria Billings, b. 1837, at Worcester, Mass.; m. 1860,
Edwin Tumey; she d. May 15, 1905. Res., Ashfield, Mass.
2904 Sarah Pomeroy Billings, b. 1839; d. 1841.
2905 George Billings, b. Oct. 29, 1841 ; m. 1868, Mary Jane Sears.
Res., North Adams, Mass.
2906 Charles Wesley Billings, b. Feb., 1844; m. Abby O. Pierce.
Res., North Adams, Mass.
2907 Sarah Paige Billings, b. Dec. 25, 1845, South Royalston, Mass.
Children of Julia P, and Dr. George Wright, (2885):
2908 Isaac H. Wright, b. 1829; m. Georgianna Baker; he d. 1891.
2909 Charles Pomeroy Wright, b. 1830; m. 1862, Martha J. Clark;
he d. 1893.
2910 Julia M. Wright, b. 1838; m. 1862, Frederick A. Giles, who d.
1879; she m. (2) 1882, Joseph R. Root; he d. 1894.
2911 George C. F. Wright, b. 1841; m. 1876, Anna C. Hayes; he d.
1884.
p/A gen. Children of Martha P. afui William Stone, (2892):
2912 Frederick Paige Stone, b. Aug. 10, 1855, Worcester, Mass.; m.
Sally Oliphant.
2913 Lucius Paige Stone, b. March 27, 1857, Worcester, Mass.; d.
May 9, 1884.
2914 William Sidney Stone, b. April 3, 1862, Templeton, Mass.; m.
June 20, 1888, Mary E. Russell, b. Feb. 23, 1863, Maiden, Mass.,
d. June 10, 1901, dau. of William E. Russell and wife Elizabeth
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B. Dyer; m. (2) Oct. 2, 1902, Ellen Reed Dewson, b. June 23,
1871, Quincy, Mass., dau. of Edward Henry Dewson and wife
Elizabeth Weld Williams. With the Gorham Co., silver and gold-
smiths. Res., Providence, R. I. +
ChUdren of Mary B, and William H, Bigelow, (2898):
2915 Russell Anson Bigelow, b. June 2, 1859, Sioux City; gr. Yale
College, 1881 ; Columbia Law School ; d. Nov. 2, 1890.
2916 William Howard Bigelow, b. July 22, 1861 ; m. June 14, 1893,
Margaret Barclay-Allardice; he d. Dec. 19, 1900, Tarpon Springs,
Florida. +
2917 Haves Bigelow, b. Feb. 20, 1879, New Haven, Conn.; m. July
31, 1907, Carolyn L. Clark. Res., Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Child of Martha and Orrin S, Thwing, (2901):
2917.1 LiNNA A. Thwing. b. Oct. 28, 1869, Putney, Vt.; m. Dec. 7, 1889,
at Putney, Walter E. Hubbard, b. June 6, 1867, Guilford, Vt. +
loth gen. Children of William S, and (ist wife) Mary E, Stone,
(2914):
2918 Barbara Russell Stone, b. Oct. 21, 1890, Medford, Mass.
2919 Roger Pomeroy Stone, b. Feb. 15, 1895, West Medford, Mass.
Children by 2d uife, (2914):
2920 Elizabeth Williams Stone, b. Dec. 17, 1904, Braintree, Mass.
2921 Virginia Stone, b. April 15, 1907, Braintree, Mass.
2922 Mary Dewson Stone, b. Oct. 2, 1909, Taunton, Mass.
Children of William H. and Margaret B, Bigelow, (2916):
2923 Helen Janet Bigelow, b. March 14, 1894, Tarpon Springs, Fla.
2924 John Bigelow, b. Sept. 10, 1896, Tarpon Springs.
2925 Elliot Allardice Bigelow, b. Oct. 13, 1897, Tarpon Springs.
Child of Linna A. and Walter E. Hubbard, (2917.1):
2925.1 Dorothy L. Hubbard, b. Feb. 6, 1901, Brattleboro, Vt. On June
27, 1911, this maiden of eleven summers placed the laurel wreath on
the tablet unveiled at \^emon, Vt., marking the site of Fort Bridg-
man. This interesting ceremony is vividly portrayed by the engrav-
ing on the opposite page.
975 MED AD POMEROY, (Medad, Seth, Ebenezer, Mcdad, Elt-
weed), b. Aug. 11, 1777, in Northfield, Mass.; m. Feb. 4, 1805,
Jerusha Alexander, b. Feb. 19, 1785, d. Aug. 13, 1850, dau. of
Simeon Alexander; he d. June 14, 1847. Res., ^It. Ararat, Me.,
and Warwick, Mass.
7fA gen. Children:
2926 Fanny Pomeroy, b. June 30, 1806; d. May 14, 1812.
2927 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. Jan. 10, 1808, Warwick, Mass. +
2928 Charles Pomeroy, b. Sept. 7, 1810; d. Jan. 6, 1812.
2929 Abby Alexander Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1815. +
2930 Col. Charles Pomeroy, b. July 14, 1818, Warwick. 4-
976 FANNY POMEROY, (Medad, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
dtmaiag^ of tint Pomrrog 3l^amtlg 3ZZ
b. Jan. 5, 1780; m. (1) 1799, William Swan Lyman, b. Sept. 5,
1775, d. Feb. 26, 1801, at Xorthfield, Mass., son' of Caleb Lyman
and Catherine Swan; she m, (2) Nov. 3, 1805, Theodore Hinsdale,
b. Nov. 12, 1772, d. Oct. 14, 1855, at Windsor, son of Rev. Theo-
dore Hinsdale and Anna Bissell; she d. Aug. 25. 1813. Mr.
Hinsdale m. (2) Sept 28, 1815, Julia Peck, who d. June 19, 1842;
he m. (3) in 1843, Mrs. Harriet Curtiss.
7th gen. Children by ist marriage:
2931 William Swan Lvman, b. June 24, 1800; d. 1840, of yellow
fever in New Orleans.
Children by 2d marriage:
2932 Theodore Hinsdale, b. March 1, 1807; d. March 22, 1845, at
Enterprise, Fla.
2933 Charles Hinsdale, b. May 27, 1809; d. Feb. 19, 1843.
2934 Francis Hinsdale, b, Jan. 11, 1811; m. (1) Sept. 18. 1837, Mary
Wright Goodrich; m. (2) Dec. 15, 1842, Jane McKnight; he d.
Aug. 5, 1851, Mt. Gilead, Ohio.
2935 John Hinsdale, b. May 9, 1812; d. Aug. 1, 1812.
2936 "George Hinsdale, b. Aug. 15, 1813: d. Aug. 25, 1813.
977 DR. SETH POMEROY, (Medad, Seth. Ebcnecer, Medad, Elt-
iveed), b. July 20, 1782, in Warwick, Mass.; m. (1) Nov. 28, 1805,
Fanny Simmons; m. (2) Sarah Elsworth; in business as a hatter;
he d. March 18, 1821. Res., New Salem, Mass.
yth gen. Children by Jst wife:
2937 Laura Ann Pomeroy, b. about 1807. +
2938 Theodore Breck Pomeroy, b. April 11, 1809. +
2939 Edwin Dwight Pomeroy, b. March, 1812. +
2940 Fanny Hinsdale Pomeroy, b. Sept., 1813, New Salem, Mass.; m.
March 6, 1836, Nehemiah Porter Dickenson; he d. 1838, at Caven-
dish, Vt.
2941 Sarah Elsworth Pomeroy, b. 1819. +
978 ARAD HUNT POMEROY, (Medad. Seth, Ebenezer, Medad. Elt-
weed), b. Jan. 15, 1785, in Warwick, Mass.; m. in 1814, Charity
Emery.
Jth gen. Children:
2942 Sarah Abby Pomeroy, b. 1815. +
2943 Frances Hunt Pomeroy, b. 1817. +
2944 Julia Ann Pomeroy, b. 1819. +
2945 Martha Jane Pomeroy, b. 1821 ; d. 1843 ; unm.
2946 Arad Hunt Pomeroy, b. 1823. +
2947 Margaret Pomeroy, b. 1825. +
2948 Lydia Pomeroy, b. 1828; m. 1870, Increase Leadbetter; s. p. Lived
with a niece, Mrs. S. M. Harding, 1904.
2949 Nancy Ellen Pomeroy, b. 1830; m. in 1853, Noah Emery.
979 JOHN POMEROY, (Medad, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
b. July 12, 1787; m. Dec. 30, 1820, Lucy Marcia Meach of Brecks-
i^ixtlf CSrnrratiott - Mtbah
viUe, Ohio. He settled there on the farm of her father; d. at
Brecksville, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1827; she m. (2) a Mr. Whitney.
^th gen. Children:
2950 Miranda Lucy Pomeroy, m. April 20, 1842, John F. Brown.
2951 Mary S. Pomeroy, m. July 5, 1846, John P. Hull.
2952 John Pomeroy, b. 1826. +
983 LO\^ISA PYNCHON POMEROY, (Lemuel, Scth, Ebeneser, Me-
dad, Eltzceed), b. 1769, in Northampton; m. Aug. 28. 1796, Julius
Barnard of Northampton; she d. 1810 in Montreal, Canada.
yth gen. Children:
2953 LovisA Barnard, b. 1803; m. Edward Swift; removed to Michi-
gan, where they settled. +
2954 Olivia Barnard, ni. Dr. J. G. Abbott; she d. at Sharon; s. p.
2955 Clara Barnard, m. (1) Ralph Swift; m. (2) Isaac von Tuyl, a
widower with four children; she had no issue.
2956 Frederick Barnard, unm. ; kept the Willard Hotel in Washing-
ton, D. C, for a time; d. and was buried at Pensacola, Florida.
8th gen. Children of Lovisa and Edward Swift, (^953):
2957 Edward Swift, went to California.
2958 Frances Swift, m. William Plant, and had children.
9S4 SARAH POMEROY, (Lemuel, Seth, Ebeneser, Medad, Eltweed),
b, 1770, in Southampton, Mass.; m. Jan. 15, 1799, Ahira Lyman, b.
Dec. 20, 1770, d. Nov. 1, 1836, from a wound made by an axe
while chopping wood at a considerable distance from home; he
was a son of Lemuel Lyman and Lydia Clark. They settled on
the plain west of the center of Easthampton. As farmer and
mechanic, he was an active business man; Sarah, his wife, d. May
10, 1813; he m. (2) Lydia Baldwin; (3) Mrs. Hannah Judd Ly-
man, widow of Elihu Lyman of Westhampton.
7th gen. Children:
2959 Roland Lyman, b. March 2, 1802; m. Dec. 30, 1831, Mary How-
land, b. Aug. 11, 1805, dau. of John Howland, of Providence, R.
L, (6lh in lineal descent from John Howland, the Puritan, who
arrived in the Mayflower). They removed to Lowell, Mass., where
he established a business as jeweler and watchmaker, remaining
there nearly forty years, longer than any business man in that
city, with one exception. He d. in 1872. -f
2960 Lemuel Pynchon Lyman, b. Sept. 27, 1804; m. Nov. 21, 1827,
Esther Phelps, dau. of Capt. John Phelps of Easthampton, where
he built a house at the foot of "Meeting House Hill." For many
years he owned the saw-mill on the Manhan near his residence,
and carried on an extensive lumber business; he also owned a
share in the grist-mill opposite his saw-mill, on the spot where
one has stood for 200 years. He d. Aug. 7, 1865. +
2961 Ahira Lyman, b. Oct. 3, 1807; m. May 28, 1831, Frances Burt,
dau. of Gaius Burt of Northampton; she d. May 18, 1839; he m.
(2) Feb. 6, 1840, Theresa Lyman, dau. of Elihu Lyman of West-
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Hampton. He settled on Park Hill, just over the Northampton
line, although they kept their church connections in Easthampton;
he d. in Easthampton in 1888. +
2962 QuARTus PoMEROY Lyman, b. Dec. 28, 1809; m. Nov. 7, 1832, in
Granby, Conn., Tryphena Wright, dau. of John Wright of East-
hampton; she d. Feb. 9, 1851; he m. (2) June 21, 1851, Emelia
Smith of Granby, Conn. He lived in Southampton 54 years, and
d. there in Sept., 1889. +
8th gen. Children of Roland and Mary Lyman, (2QSp):
2963 Elizabeth Russell Lyman, b. and d. in 1835,
2964 John Howland Lyman, b. 1836: d. 1841.
2965 Alfred Pynchon Lyman, b. March 31, 1841; m. May 4, 1867,
Ida M. Nichols; he d. 1865.
Children of Lemuel P. and Esther Lyman, (2g6o):
2966 Sarah Pomeroy Lyman, b. Nov. 23] 1831 : m. April 23, 1862,
Frederick A, Shaw of Easthampton; she d. Sept. 15, 1867.
2967 Hannah Phelps Lyman, b. March 12, 1836; m. Jan. 1, 1861,
Dwight S. Jepson.
2968 Louis Pynchon Lyman, b. Sept. 6, 1840; d. March 23, 1843.
2969 Mary Esther Lyman, b. Feb. 1, 1847; m. in 1869, Edwin E.
Wakefield of Northampton.
Children of Ahira and Frances Lyman, (2q6i):
2970 Henry Lyman, b. July 31, 1832; m. in 1858, Jane Parsons, dau.
of Ralph Parsons of Holyoke ; in 1862 he joined Co. C, 27th Mass.
V. L; d. in service in 1863.
2971 Gaius Burt Lyman, b. Aug. 25, 1834; d. Oct. 2, 1835.
2972 Gaius Burt Lyman, b. July 19, 1836; m. Eliza Morganum, b.
1836, dau. of her father's second wife.
2973 Frances Burt Lyman, b. Dec. 8, 1840; m. May 4, 1865, William
P. Derby; was superintendent of the tape manufactory of Williston
& Arms, Northampton.
2974 Arthur Judd Lyman, b. July 30, 1842: d. Jan. 18, 1864.
2975 Albert Ahira Lyman, b. Dec. 27, 1845; m. in 1878, Ellen C.
Parsons; joined Co. K, 52d Mass. V. I., in 1862; served with Gen.
Banks on Red River campaign.
2976 Richard Lyman, b. Sept. 8, 1847; m. Ella L. Holbrook.
2977 Robert Worthington Lyman, b. March 27, 1850; m. in 1882,
Diantha A. Bridgman.
2978 William R. Lyman, b. May 22, 1854; m. in 1885, Fanny Cham-
berlain.
Children of Quartus P. and Tryphena Lyman, (2^62):
2979 Daughter Lyman, b. Feb. 26, 1834; d. same year.
2980 John Wright Lyman, b. Nov. 9, 1836; m. Jan. 17, 1861, Mary
Lucy Matthews, dau. of Horace A. Matthews of Easthampton.
986 MARGARET POMEROY, {Lemuel, Seth, Ebeneser, Medad, EH-
weed), b. Oct. 20, 1773; m. Dec. 27, 1798, Jesse Mclntire of Feed-
ing Hills, Mass., b. Nov. 21, 1766, d. Sept. 13, 1853, son of Wil-
liam Mclntire, of Scotch parentage; she d. Nov. 9, 1827.
i^xtlf dtmrBtxan - Mthah
7th gen. Children, all b, at Feeding Hills, Mass,:
2981 Alexander McIntire, b. July 4, 1800; m. Dec. 4, 1827, Abigail
Colton, b. in Longmeadow, Mass., d. 1864; he d. March 1, 1864. +
2982 Margaret McIntire, b. Feb. 21, 1802; d. Aug. 18, 1803.
2983 Mary E. McIntire, b. March 20, 1804; m. April 24, 1861, Lemuel
Pyncheon Lyman, (his third wife), b. Sept. 24, 1804, son of Ahira
Lyman and Sarah Pomeroy (984) ; she d. March 3, 1884.
2984 George Pyncheon McIntire, b. Aug. 26, 1806; d. Nov. 9, 1870.
2985 Lewis McIntire, b. April 7, 1809; m. Dec. 15, 1836, Margaret
P. Hubbard; he d. Sept. 13, 1884; s. p.
2986 Eliza McIntire, b. May 7, 1813; m. Sept. 10, 1844, Stuart Mc-
Kissick, b. Nov. 27, 1806, in Saco, Me., d. Aug. 29, 1882, son of
Moses and Abigail (Stuart) McKissick; she d. Dec. 22, 1895. +
2987 Jesse McIntire, b. Aug. 23, 1816; d. Oct. 23, 1822.
8th gen. Children of Alexander and Abigail McIntire, b. Feed-
ing Hills, (2981):
2988 Charles Carroll McIntire, b. May 14, 1830; theological course
at Auburn, N. Y. ; pastor at Windsor Locks, Conn. ; m. June 19,
1861, Jane Anna Fowler, b. July 9, 1831, dau. of Abram Fowler
and Adelia Middlebrook; he d. at Pittsford, Vt. +
2989 Henry Eckford McIntire, b. Oct. 3, 1832; m. (1) Feb. 11,
1857, Elvira Teresa Hatch, b. Sept. 13, 1832, dau. of Amos Hatch;
he m. (2) Caroline Walker, b. June 3, 1842, d. at Burlington, N.
J., April 23, 1898, dau. of John C. and Caroline Walker; retired
apothecary; d. March 20, 1904. +
2990 Abby Ely McIntire, b. Aug., 1834; d. Dec. 3, 1899; unm.
2991 Jesse McIntire, b. June, 1836; volunteer in the Civil War, Sergt.
Co. G, 11 1th N. Y. V. I., serving three years; m. (1) 1876, Fanny
Gott; m. (2) Fanny Sheldon Ellis.
2992 John Milton McIntire, b. April, 1842; volunteer in the Civil
War, joining the 8th N. Y. Cav. ; he d. in Boston, Ohio, in 1869.
Children of Eliza and Stuart McKissick, b. in Albany, N. Y,,
(2986):
2993 Mary McKissick, b. Dec. 17, 1846; d. March 24, 1864.
2994 Julia Norton McKissick, b. June 11, 1849; m. Jan. 25, 1882,
Charles Warner Shepard, b. Dec. 3, 1846, son of George Shepard
I and Elvira Warner. +
2995 AiiHY Stu-vrt McKissick, b. May 18, 1851; m. Jan. 22, 1873,
Walter McEwan, b. June 1, 1843, in Glasgow, Scotland, son of
John and Agnes Gordon (Lauder) McEwan; he d. May 10,
1908. +
2996 Edward Pomeroy McKissick, b. June 22, 1854; m. (1) May 9,
1877, Florence Ida Paul, who d. Jan. 12, 1883, dau. of Edwin
Paul and Patience Smith; m. (2) March 9, 1885, Nathalie Lincoln
Coffin, who d. Aug. 22, 1885; m. (3) Jan. 4, 1895, Carrie Belle
Packard, who d. May 9, 1901.
2997 Jessie McKissick, b. Aug. 11, 1857; d. June 17, 1860.
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Qth gen. Children of Charles C. and Jane A, Mclntire, (2988):
2998 Jesse Hogarth McIntire, b. Sept. 28, 1862, Albany, N. Y.; d.
Jan. 15. 1895.
2999 James Johnson McIntire, b. Dec, 1863, at Windsor Locks; d.
Aug., 1864.
3000 Sidney Elsworth McIntire, b. March 18, 1865, at Windsor
Locks, Conn. ; m. Aug. 17, 1898, Mary A. Phinney of Mont-
pelier, Vt.
3001 Son, b. and d. July, 1872, at Rockport, Mass.
Children of Henry E, and Elvira T. McIntire, (2p8p:)
3002 Frederick Hexry McIntire, b. July 4, 1864, in New York City.
3003 Jesse An an McIntire, b. April 8, 1869, in Philadelphia.
3004 William Alexander McIntire, b. April 3, 1871, in Philadelphia.
3005 George Colton McIntire, b. July 24, 1875, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children of Julia N, and Charles IV, Shepard, (29^4):
3006 Harold Warner Shepard, b. June 22, 1885, in West Newton,
Mass.
3007 Roy Stuart Shepard, b. April 12, 1889. in West Newton, Mass.
Children of Abby S, and Walter McEwan, b, in Albany, (2995):
3008 Walter Stuart McEwan, b. Dec. 20, 1873; m. Sept. 24, 1902,
Mary Selina Blakeslee, b. March 8, 1872, in Momence, 111., dau.
of Charles Levi and Julia Ann (Millar) Blakeslee. +
3009 Agnes Louder McEwan, b. Jan. 28, 1876; m. Sept. 20, 1899,
Charles Sumner Stedman, b. Nov. 6, 1874, in Loudonville, N. Y.,
son of George Lavater and Adda (Wolverton) Stedman. Res.,
Loudonville, N. Y. +
3010 Jessie Ellis McEwan, b. June 16, 1878; m. Oct. 7, 1903, Henry
Hunt Romer, b. Oct. 13, 1874, in Pleasantville, N. Y., son of
Alfred and Charlotte Ann (Hunt) Romer. Res., Brooklyn, N.
Y. -f
3011 George William McEwan, b. June 11, 1882; m. April 21, 1908.
Gertrude Marsh Peck, b. March 4, 1886, Albany, N. Y.
3012 Charles Bailey McEwan, b. June 1, 1884.
loth gen. Children of Walter S. and Mary S, McEwan, (3008):
3013 Catherine Millar McEwan, b. Oct. 21, 1903; d. Oct. 24, 1903.
3014 Walter Stuart McEwan, b. Dec. 20, 1904.
3015 Jane Blakeslee McEwan, b. April 19, 1907, Albany, N. Y.
Children of Agnes L. and Charles 5, Stedman, (3009):
3016 Charles Sumner Stedman, Jr., b. April 9, 1902, Albany, N. Y.
3017 Walter Stuart Stedman, b. March 20, 1904, Albany. N. Y.
3018 Richard Lauder Stedman, b. July 9, 1907, Loudonville, N. Y.
Children of Jessie E. and Henry H, Romer, (3010):
3019 Alfred Romer, b. Aug. 9, 1906, Brooklyn, N. Y.
3020 Anne Stuart Romer, b. Sept. 5, 1909, Pleasantville, N. Y.
988 LEMUEL POMEROY, {Lemuel, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b.Aug. 18, 1778, in Southampton, Mass.; m. (1) Nov. 4,
1798, Olivia Brewster, b. Dec. 21, 1776, in Griswold, Conn., d.
Vmutrf ^ttmrng
Eltw«F<I Poncroy, Eb»Dei«r potnaror, Lemuel Pomaro)'.
Born Juir 4, ISSGi Born Mfty SO, 111): n«r. ■.«• *i i***
BmitT&nt llto; DIad Jml IT, 1TC4.
Died March. ICTl.
M*d*d Poneror. MaJ-Oon. Beth Fomvrajr,
Bom Auk. 1*. 1*)*: Born Mar te. ITM;
Dlad Dec. »t. int. Died Fab. I*. 17T1.
1799, dau. of Simon Brewster and Mehitable Belcher; he m. (2)
June 2, 1800, Hart Lester of Griswold, b. March 4, 1781, d. Aug.
3, 1852. He removed from Southampton to Chesterfield, thence
to Pittsfield. Of the many strong men who have contributed to-
ward giving Pittsfield the position which that city now holds, it
has been suggested that Lemuel Pomeroy stands first in regard
to the extent and important results of his exertions and influence,
and the hearty good will with which they were bestowed; and it
is conceded that no citizen did as much as he for the growth of
the town in business, wealth, population, and educational facilities.
It was in the fall of 1799 that he came to Pittsfield. fully versed
in the industry of iron-working, and purchased what was after-
wards known as the Bement place, and in 1800 he purchased the
homestead lot, extending from the east line of the Newton place
on the west to the Kellogg place on the east, having a frontage
of eighty rods on East street, and depth sufficient to make an area
of eleven acres. Pomeroy 's lane, which has now assumed the
name of Pomeroy avenue was then laid out. On this thorough-
fare he built a few cottages for his workmen, and on the comer
of the lane and East street the workshop was erected. In this
shop Mr. Pomeroy laid the foundation of his handsome fortune,
for those primitive days. His business in general blacksmithing
was extensive and varied, including the making of pleasure sleighs,
plows, wagons, etc., complete for use. This shop was burned down
in 1805, and although the loss was great, he at once built in its
place a larger and more convenient structure, which was soon
devoted almost exclusively to the manufacture of muskets, and
became known as **The Old Musket Shop."
Lemuel Pomeroy d. Aug. 25, 1849, and was laid at rest on the
summit of Pitts NIound. A massive monument of white marble
has been erected over his grave, and at intervals his wife, and the
children and grandchildren, one by one, have been laid by his side.
7/// ^♦,'^r//. Children by 2d u*ife:
3021 Olivia Hart Pomeroy, b. May 13, 1801. +
3022 Lemuel Pomeroy, b. April 15, 1803. +
3023 Elizabeth Pomerov, b. Feb. 19, 1805. +
3024 Parthenia Little Pomeroy, b. Nov. 3, 1806. +
3025 Eunice Pomeroy, b. March 16, 1808. +
3026 Harriet Pomeroy, b. Dec. 26, 1809. +
3027 Emily Pomeroy, b. Nov. 13, 1811. +
3028 Theodore Pomeroy, b. Sept. 2, 1813. +
3029 George Pomeroy, b. July 15, 1815; d. June 3, 1831.
3030 Robert Pomeroy, b. June 30, 1817. +
3031 Edward Pomeroy, b. Sept. 13, 1820. +
In 1808, Lemuel Poineroy purchased the old James Jason Mills Gun Shop, the
site where the Taconic Mill now stands, and extended the works to the manu-
facture of muskets, for which he soon had contracts with several states, so that
his product was 2.000 stand annually. Eight years later he obtained a contract
with the United States Government calling for 2,000 stand annually. In addition
to these contracts he averaged 200 muskets yearly for the general market. In
dfntalasB of % Pomnrov JFamUtf 32B
1823, he erected a brick building, 50 by 40 feet, and in 1828 added a trip-hammer
shop of brick, the machinery being driven by the water-power since used by
the Taconic mill. The muskets were finished at the shop on the corner of East
street and Pomeroy avenue.
In 1846, Mr. Pomeroy abandoned the manufacture of fire-arms, partly be-
cause the Government had adopted the percussion musket, which would neces-
sitate changes in his works to the amount of $50,000, and had placed the na-
tional armory at Springfield (which had previously been operated by civilians),
in charge of the War Department. He had recommended this action to the na-
tional government, and the commissioners were astonished that he should sug-
gest a course so detrimental to his personal pecuniary interests. In 1839, he
purchased what was known as the Pomeroy mills, and became the owner of
land nearly a mile in length on both sides of the Housatonic River, above and
below the mills.
Perhaps the greatest and most enduring of Mr. Pomeroy's public enter-
prises was his success in prevailing upon the management of the Boston and
Albany (Western) railroad to lay their tracks by a route which led through
Pittsfield, and it is proper to say here that this result was due to his strenuous
and untiring efforts, and to his liberality, determination, extended business and
social influence, and the judicious use of all the powers at his command. This
railroad, until the era of the Hoosac Tunnel, was the only direct means of rail-
road communication between Massachusetts and the great west, or even between
Pittsfield and the cities of Albany and Hudson. Mr. Pomeroy was a director of
the Western Railroad from 1839 until his death; and director of the Agricultural
Bank from 1825 to 1848.
Another of the great services of Lemuel Pomeroy to the town of Pittsfield
is in connection with the grounds now widely known as Maplewood. They had
an area of about twenty acres, and were owned and occupied by the United
States Government from 1812 to 1826 as a cantonment. In 1826 Congress or-
dered the sale of all such land, and the site now known as Maplewood was sold
to Mr. Pomeroy, who immediately built three large three-story brick buildings,
the present Maplewood Chapel occupying the site of one which was burned.
These buildings were devoted to educational purposes of a high order, the
Berkshire Gymnasium, a school for young men, after the model of the European
Gymnasia, being established here with such instructors as Prof. Chester Dewey,
the Rev. Dr. Mark Hopkins, who afterward became president emeritus of Wil-
liams College, and other distinguished educators. After Prof. Dewey resigned
as the governing head of this institution, the grounds had a remarkable history
as the seat of Maplewood Young Ladies' Institute. Today this group of build-
ings bear evidence of the remarkable foresight of Lemuel Pomeroy.
In his religion, Mr. Lemuel Pomeroy was an earnest Congregationalist,
and took a leading part in the management of the affairs of the First parish,
but during its technical division, between 1809 and 1817, he took his membership
with the Union or Federal Parish, and contributed liberally to the building of
its church. After the parish was reunited he purchased the Union meeting house
and long tendered the use of it to the First parish for chapel meetings and other
religious exercises in the town. In truth, he was a large-hearted and large-
minded man, of commanding mien and dignified presence, and was for many
years the most conspicuous figure on the streets and in the history of the town,
and the hospitality of his home was princely. He was calm and tranquil in his
style, with better control of the fiery earnestness of his nature than many of the
Pomeroys, but seemed, Hke some of his ancestors, to have been a natural born
leader for good. He was a gentleman of the old school, and tall, erect and very
graceful in person.
About the beginning of the year 1848, Lemuel Pomeroy began to show signs
of loss of vitality. A touching reference is made to this decline by his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dodge: "When in health, his attitude in prayer, like God's servants of
old, was to stand before the altar and spread forth his hands, but when from
weakness he could no longer worship in this posture he knelt. Frequently, from
weakness, he was not able to rise after prayer had been offered, and it was a
pathetic sight when his son and daughter gently raised him from his devotional
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attitude. Day by day he became as a little child, ready for his heavenly in-
heritance."
9S9 GAMALIEL POMEROY, {Lemuel, Seth, Ebeneser, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Feb. 15, 1780; m. (1) 1809, Mary Tyler, b. 1782, d. Nov.
I 14, 1818; m. (2) May 25, 1820, Maria Danforth, b. April 6, 1792, d.
Feb. 24, 1860, dau. of Jonathan Danforth and Saloame Noble; he
d. May 12, 1856.
/th gen. Children by ist wife:
3032 Eunice Pomeroy, b. Nov. 2, 1810; m. 1832, Daniel W. Chapman
of New York; they removed to Rochester, N. Y., where she d. in
1878, s. p.
3033 Betsey Coit Pomeroy, b. April 23, 1813. +
3034 Mary Tyler Pomeroy, b. 1815; m. in 1850, William P. Dickin-
son; she d. 1880, s. p.
3035 Jonathan Law Pomeroy, b. Nov. 3, 1818. +
Children by 2d wife:
3036 Henrietta Maria Pomeroy, b. 1823; d. Oct. 29, 1864.
3037 Frederick Pomeroy, b. 1826; d. 1828.
3038 Harriet Pomeroy, b. 1830; d. Nov. 17, 1855.
3039 Jane Pomeroy, (twin with Harriet), b. 1830; m. W. Leroy Ball
of Holyoke, Mass.; s. p.
3040 Charles Danforth Pomeroy, b. March 7, 1832. +
991 DR. THEODORE POMEROY, (Lemuel, Seth, Ebeneser, Medad,
Eltweed), b. March 14, 1785; gr. Yale 1808; m. (1) Jan. 3, 1815,
Mary Fuller, b. July 26, 1796, d. Aug. 4, 1824, dau. of Dr. Thomas
Fuller of Cooperstown, N. Y. ; he m. (2) in 1826, Cornelia Voor-
hees, b. March 3, 1800, near New Brunswick, N. J., d. March 8,
1893, at Utica, N. Y. ; she had just entered on her 94th year; dau.
of Jacques Voorhees (of Dutch descent), and Dinah Stryker, [a
descendant of Jan Stryker of Midevout, (Flushing), L. I., 1652].
The farm on which she was bom has belonged to the family for
200 years, and has been owned by a Jacques Voorhees through
seven generations. Cornelia Voorhees Pomeroy was educated at
Miss Hayes' private school in New Brunswick. After her mar-
I riage, in 1826, she went to Utica, and for many years was one
of the queens of Utica society. She was fond of entertaining
her friends, and the receptions she gave at her home were among
the most brilliant social events of those early days. She always
insisted that her children should fulfill their social duties. Dr.
Theodore Pomeroy d. at Utica, June 25, 1860.
2th gen. Children by ist wife:
3041 Dr. Thomas Fuller Pomeroy, b. May 11, 1816. +
3042 Theodore Pomeroy, b. Jan. 11, 1820. +
3043 Mary Fuller Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1822. +
Children by 2d marriage:
3044 James Voorhees Pomeroy, b. April 12, 1828. +
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3045 Edward Aiken Pomeroy, b. Dec. 8, 1829; d. Aug. 15, 1854, in
California.
3046 John Williams Pomeroy, b. Jan. 1, 1832. +
3047 Cornelia Voorhees Pomeroy, b. Sept. 17, 1834. +
3048 LiEUT.-CoL. George Allen Pomeroy, b. Dec. 10, 1836. +
HARRIET POMEROY, (Lemuel, Seth, Ebenezer, Medad^ Elt-
weed), b. Dec. 23, 1787; m. Dec. 20, 1810, Dr. William Atwater
of Westfield, Mass., b. Jan. 30, 1786; gr. Yale. 1807; d. Feb. 7.
1833, son of Rev. Noah Atwater and Mrs. Rachel (Lyman)
Mather, his wife; she d. Oct. 17, 1824.
Jth gen. Children, b. in IVest field, Mass,:
3049 Lucy Atwater, b. Sept. 16, 1813; m. Oct. 28. 1842, Rev. William
Walter Woodworth, D. D., by Iowa College, Andover Seminary;
gr. Yale, Yale Divinity; b. Oct. 16, 1813, in Cromwell, Conn.,
son of Walter and Mary (Sage) Woodworth; he was pastor of
the Congregational Church at Waterbury, Conn., Olivet and Ply-
mouth, Mass., Mansfield, Ohio, and other places; she d. July 4,
1844. +
3050 William Lyman Atwater, b. Aug. 15, 1815; d. Jan. 1, 1819.
3051 Charles Atwater, b. Jan. 9, 1818 ; d. April 2, 1830.
3052 William Lyman Atwater, b. March 3, 1820; m. Dec. 7, 1847,
Isabella Ann McWilliams, b. Aug. 14, 1826, in Middletown. N. Y.,
d. March 8, 1905, dau. of Andrew and Mary (Jagger) McWil-
liams; he d. Jan. 15, 1903, at Stockbridge, Mass. +
3053 Harriet Pomeroy Atwater, b. Nov. 26, 1822; m. Jan. 13, 1864.
George Washington Campbell, b. July 4, 1804, d. Feb. 13, 1880.
son of David and Lucy (Laughlin) Campbell. Res., Pittsfield,
Mass. +
3054 John Atwater, b. Oct. 11, 1824; d. Nov. 2, 1874; unm.
8th gen. Child of Lucy and William IV. Woodworth, (304Q):
3055 William Atwater Woodworth, b. July 3, 1844; Yale, 1865; Al-
bany Law School, LL.B. ; m. Elizabeth Willis of White Plains, N.
Y. ; she d. March 6, 1909. +
Children of William L, and Isabella A, Atwater, (3052):
3056 James Fowler Atwater, b. Oct. 22, 1848, Yonkers, N. Y. ; book-
keeper; m. Feb. 13, 1880, Janet Murray, dau. of Thomas Mur-
ray. +
3057 William Lyman Atwater, b. Sept. 6, 1851, in Yonkers, N. Y. ;
d. Sept 1, 1854.
3058 Charles Atwater, b. July 10, 1854; m. June 2, 1888, Alice Maud
Allen, b. in St. Louis, Mo., dau. of Thomas and Ann Russell
Allen; he d. May 1, 1898, in London, England; she m. (2) Sept.
27, 1899, Louis Lombard. Res., Chateau di Trevano, Lugano,
Switzerland. +
3059 Lucy Atwater, b. Oct. 26, 1857, in Yonkers, N. Y.; m. Oct. 6,
1885, Dr. Matthew D. Field, b. July 19, 1853, in Nashville, Tenn.,
d. March 8, 1895, son of Matthew D. and Clarissa Laflin Field.
Res., Stockbridge, Mass. +
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3060 Harriet Pomeroy Atwater, b. May 26, 1860, New York City; d.
March 3, 1871.
3061 Isabella L. Atwater, b. Nov. 5, 1862, in New York City; d.
Nov. 20, 1880.
3062 Katharine C. Atwater, b. Aug. 14, 1865, in New York City.
Children of Harriet P. and George IV, Campbell, (3053):
3063 Elizabeth Campbell, b. Jan. 7. 1865, in Pittsfield, Mass.
3064 Grace Campbell, b. Oct. 18, 1866, in Pittsfield, Mass.; m. Oct.
5, 1892, Theodore Langdon Van Norden, son of Warner Van
Norden (banker and President of the Van Norden Trust Com-
pany) and Martha Phillips.
gth gen. Child of William A, and Elizabeth Woodworth, (3055):
3065 Amy Willis Woodworth, b. in 1875.
Children of James F, and Janet Atwater, b. N, Y. City, (30^6):
3066 William Lyman Atwater, b. Jan. 31, 1881.
3067 Janet Isabella Atwater, b. Oct. 23, 1883.
3068 George Campbell Atwater, b. Aug., 1885.
Children of Charles and Alice M. Atwater, b. Pittsfield, Mass.,
(305S):
3069 Allen Russell Atwater, b. 1889.
3070 William Bradford Atwater, b. 1891.
3071 Alice Lorna Atwater, b. 1893.
3072 Judith Pomeroy Atwater, b. 1896.
Children of Lucy and Dr. Matthew D. Field, b. in N. Y. City,
(3059):
3073 Katharine Eldridge Field, b. July 11, 1886; d. Feb. 11, 1892.
3074 Henry Martyn Field, b. March 5, 1888; d. July 19, 1888.
3075 Frances Dwight Field, b. and d. 1889.
3076 Elizabeth Campbell Field, b. Sept. 21, 1891.
3077 Rachel Lyman Field, b. Sept. 20, 1894.
1203 HANNAH POMEROY, (AsahcL Seth, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
bp. Feb. 8, 1795, in Northampton; m. (1) Jan. 13, 1813, Robert
O. Edwards, b. Sept. 4, 1776, d. Jan. 4, 1823, in Charleston, S. C,
of yellow fever, son of Timothy and Rhoda (Ogden) Edwards;
she m. (2) Hon. John Tappan; in 1843, John Tappan represented
the United States Government at the International Peace Conven-
tion in London; he d. in Boston; she d. Jan. 4, 1867.
7th gen. Child:
3078 Pomeroy Edwards, b. 1822; d. about 1850, in Oregon; unm.
1201 PLINY POMEROY, {Pliny, Daniel. Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Sept. 17, 1758; m. Mehitable Strong, b. 1760, d. Feb. 6, 1805,
at St. Albans, Vt., dau. of Rev. Thomas Strong of New Marl-
borough, Mass.; he d. Feb. 27, 1798, at Northampton.
7th gen. Children:
3079 William Pomeroy, b. July 29, 1784.
3080 Pliny Pomeroy, b. Dec. 22, 1786. +
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3081 Elizabeth Barnard Pomeroy, b. March 22, 1788. +
3082 Mary (Polly) Pomeroy, b. April 3, 1789; m. Henry R. Sheldon.
3083 George Pomeroy, b. Nov. 16, 1793; m. Jane Brower; he was a
merchant in New York City, where he d. Jan. 26, 1849.
3084 Almira Maria Pomeroy, b. March 13, 1797; m. Noah B. Wells;
she d. Sept. 20, 1819, in St. Albans, Vt.
1205 GAIUS POMEROY, (Plinv, Daniel, Ebenecer, Medad, Eltweed),
b. July 11, 1760; m. Aug. 14, 1783, Elizabeth Root Clark, dau. of
William Clark and Sarah Root ; she d. at the age of 62 ; he d. Nov.
22, 1824.
ph gen. Children:
3085 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. June 14, 1784. -H
3086 EuHu Pomeroy, b. June 21, 1787. +
3087 AcHSAH Pomeroy, b. Feb. 8, 1792. +
3088 Gaius Pomeroy, b. May 15, 1796; d. in Pittsfield, Mass., Aug.
7, 1828.
3089 Electa Pomeroy, b. Sept. 15, 1801. +
1207 MARY POMEROY, {Pliny, Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Eltweed),
b. April 16, 1764; m. Dec. 13, 1781, Elihu Wright.
7/A gen. Child:
3090 Polly Wright, b. Oct. 11, 1782; m. Mr. Magrath, who d. soon;
she lived, a widow, in Springfield, Mass., in 1856.
1213 CHARLOTTE POMEROY, (Pliny, Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad.
Eltweed), b. 1783; m. Feb. 1, 1802, Titus Rust, bp. Oct. 17. 1779.
son of Elijah Rust and Mariam Strong; he was a tanner in
Pompey, N. Y. ; she d. there; he d. in Berlin, Conn.
Jth gen. Children:
3091 Daniel Rust, b. in Easthampton, Mass.; m. Miss Parsons, dau.
of Edward Parsons.
3092 Clarissa Rust, m. Rev. Obadiah Beardsley of Albion, N. Y.
3093 Puny Rust, a farmer at Southampton, Mass. ; m. and had children.
1215 SOPHIA POMEROY, {Daniel Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), bp. May 12, 1765; m. 1790, Pliny Moseley, (Abigail, his
first wife, d. June 28, 1788; she was the mother of Hon. Daniel
Moseley, Circuit Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Seventh Judi-
cial District of the State of New York).
ph gen. Children:
3094 Sybil Moseley, b. Sept. 14, 1792, at Westfield, Mass.; m. Oct.
11, 1819, Rev. Hiram Bingham, b. Oct. 30, 1789, at Bennington,
Vt; gr. Middlebury College, 1816, and Andover Theological Sem-
inary, 1819, son of Dea. Calvin and Lydia Denton Bingham. Rev.
Hiram Bingham was ordained as a missionary Sept. 28, 1819, and
was one of the first missionaries to the Sandwich Islands. In Feb.,
1841, Mr. and Afrs. Bingham returned to the United States, and
Mrs. Bingham d. Feb. 27, 1848, in Easthampton; he m. (2) Aug.
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24, 1852, Naomi Emma Morse, b. June 13, 1802, principal of the
York Square Seminary, New Haven, Conn.; he d. in New Haven»
1867. +
3095 Sophia Moseley, m. Rev. Ralph Cushman. +
3096 Lucy Moseley, m. Charles Whiting. +
3097 Abby Moseley; unm.
3098 Annie Moseley.
8th gen. Children of Sybil and Rev. Hiram Bingham, (3094):
3099 Sophia Moseley Bingham, b. Nov. 9, 1820, at Honolulu, Oahu;
m. April 22, 1839, William A. Moseley, who d. in Chicago, April
6, 1887.
3100 Levi Parsons Bingham, b. Dec. 31, 1822; d. Jan. 6, 1823, at
Honolulu.
3101 Jeremiah Evarts Bingham, b. March 11, 1824; d. June 11, 1825,
at Honolulu.
3102 Lucy Whiting Bingham, b. Oct. 26, 1826, at Kailua, Hawaii; m.
Feb. 18, 1852, Rev. Charles O. Reynolds; d. April 6, 1890.
3103 Elizabeth Bingham, b. March 8, 1829, at Honolulu; d. there
Nov. 27, 1899.
3104 Rev. Hiram Bingham, b. Aug. 16, 1831, at Honolulu; gr. Yale,
1853, and Andover Theological Seminary; ordained as evangelist,
1856; m. Nov. 17, 1856. Minerva Clarissa Brewster of Northamp-
ton; went as missionaries to Sandwich Islands. +
3105 Lydia Denton Bingham, b. Dec. 25, 1834, at Honolulu; edu-
cated at WilHston Female Seminary and York Square Ladies' Sem-
inary; she was teacher at the Delaware Literary Institute, Frank-
lin, N. Y. ; m. Oct. 13, 1873, Rev. Titus Coan, b. Feb. 1, 1801, d.
Dec. 1, 1882; s. p.
Children of Sophia and Rev, Ralph Cushman, (309$):
3106 Sophia Cushman, m. Dr. Turner.
3107 Maria Cushman, m. Dr. Wilkie.
3108 Harriet Cushman, m. Rev. Joseph McGiffert, D.D., of Ashta-
bula, Ohio.
Children of Lucy and Charles Whiting, (3096):
3109 Charles Whiting, m.
I 3110 Lucy Whiting, unm.
3111 Caroline Whiting, d. in girlhood.
3112 Ralph Whiting, lived at Ann Arbor, Mich.
3113 George Whiting.
9th gen. Child of Rev, Hiram and Minerva C, Bingham, (3104):
3114 Hiram Bingham, b. Nov. 19, 1875; gr. Yale, 1898; m. Nov. 20,
1900, Alfreda Mitchell, dau. of Alfred Mitchell and Annie Tiffany.
1216 RALPH MOSELEY POMEROY, (Daniel, Daniel, Ebenezer, Me-
dad, Eltweed), bp. Feb. 22, 1767; m. Lydia Abel, b. Jan. 4, 1769,
at Bennington, Vt., dau. of Thomas Abel and Eunice Griswold ; she
d. in Buffalo, N. Y. ; he d. there in 1860. The appended quitclaim
would indicate that Ralph Moseley Pomeroy m. twice:
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"Ralph Moscley Pomeroy of Bennington, county of Bennington,
Vermont, sells to Erastus Lyman of Northampton, part of the
homestead owned formerly by Elisha Cook, in Northampton, for
$200, and I, Dorothy Pomeroy, wife of the said Ralph M., for
the consideration of $1.00 pd. by Erastus Lyman, do release right
to dower in the same.
"Oct. 6, 1796."
^th gen. Children:
3115 Thomas Abel Pomeroy, b. about 1790; lost at sea: unm.
3116 Minerva Lydia Pomeroy, b. 1792: m. Stephen Champlin, Captain
in the United States Navy, b. Nov. 7, 1789, in South Kensington,
R. I. ; resided in Buffalo, N. Y. ; she d. in 1859.
3117 Robert Pomeroy, (perhaps son of second wife. Dorothv), b. Mav
4, 1794. +
1218 HON. DANIEL POMEROY, {Daniel. Daniel Ebeneser, Me-
dad, Eltzveed), bp. Oct. 13, 1771 ; m. Feb. 11, 1794. Charlotte
Rhodes, b. Oct. 14, 1774. d. Oct. 29, 1815; he d. April 7, 1845.
Resided in Brandon, Vt. ; he was a fuller and clothier; subscribed
$1350 for building the first meeting house in Brandon. He repre-
sented the town in the General Assemblv, 1823-1826.
Jth gen. Children:
3118 Azubah Pomeroy, b. May 17, 17%; d. F'eb. 2, 1819.
3119 Leonard Pomeroy, b. Sept. 1, 1797; d. Aug. 7, 1798.
3120 Daniel Pomeroy, b. March 19, 1799, in Brandon, Vt. +
3121 Rev. Charles Pomeroy, b. March 28, 1801. -f
3122 Ralph Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1803. ■+-
3123 William Pomeroy, b. Oct. 3, 1805. -I-
3124 Charlotte Pomeroy, b. April 29. 1808. +
3125 Paris Rhodes Pomeroy, b. Nov. 6, 1810. +
3126 Sybil S. Pomeroy, b. June 3, 1813; d. March 6. 1814.
REV. FRANCIS POMEROY, {Timothy, Daniel, Ebenczer, Me-
dad, Eltweed)^ b. June 7, 1767; m. Mrs. Potter. He was a Pres-
byterian clergyman, and the first pastor of the Presbyterian church
at Lyons, N. Y., constituted June 29, 1814, and regularly dis-
missed Feb. 1, 1825; he d. in Lyons.
7th gen. Child:
3127 Phebb Pomeroy, b
ANNA POMEROY, {Timothy, Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Feb. 14, 1773; m. Nov. 15. 1791. Eli Clark, b. 1765,
d. at Skaneateles, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1835, son of Elijah Clark and
Mary Sheldon; she d. Jan. 20, 1860.
Jth gen. Children:
3128 Elijah Clark, b. 1792; m.; d. 1882, at Marshall, Mich. +
3129 Foster Clark, b. March 8, 1795; m. April 13, 1820, Sarah A.
Botsford ; she d. Aug. 17, 1897 ; he d. Aug. 29, 1882. +
3130 Ashley Clark, b. 1798; m. Harriet Webster. +
335 Bixtlf drtttraliim - Mthah
3131 Theodore Clark, b. Jan., 1800; m. Frances Olmsted of Rochester,
N. Y. ; he d. in LeRoy. +
3132 Mary Ann Clark, b. 1802; m. Edmund Bottsford. +
3133 Eliza Clark, b. 1805; m. Thomas Stevens; d. 1850. +
3134 Clarice Clark, b. 1807; m. Sylvester Howard; d. 1888, in Lac-
lede, Mo. +
3135 LovisA Clark, b. July, 1810; m. Rev. Lemuel Munn; d. 1842, in
the Sandwich Islands, where they were missionaries.
3136 Julia Clark, b. July 8, 1815; m. William D. Munn; d. 1858. Re-
sided in Clyde, N. Y. +
/th gen. Child of Elijah Clark and wife, (J128):
3137 George Clark, resided in Albion, Mich.
Child of Foster and Sarah A. Clark, (31^):
3138 William Eli Clark, b. May 18, 1821; m. May 8, 1845, Mari
Smith, dau. of Benoni Smith.
Child of Ashley aptd Harriet Clark, (3130):
3139 Howard Clark, lived in Elbridge, N. Y.
Child of Theodore aftd Frances Clark, (3131):
3140 John M. Clark, lived in Lockport, N. Y.
Child of Mary Ann and Edmund Bottsford, (3132):
3141 Rev. Alfred Pomerov Bottsford, lived in Wyonah, N. J.
Child of Eliza and Thomas Stevens, (3133):
3142 Thatcher Stevens, lived in Jordan, N. Y.
Child of Clarice attd Sylvester Howard, (3134):
3143 Benjamin Howard, lived in Laclede, Mo.
Children of Julia and William D. Munn, (3136):
3144 Charles Munn, lived in Janesville, N. Y.
3144.1 Frank Munn, telegraph operator, Qyde, N. Y.
1258 SUSANNAH POMEROY, {Timothy, Daniel, Ebeneser, Medad,
Eltweed), b. 1777; m. (1) Rev. William Lusk; m. (2) Rev. Tim-
othy Field.
/th gen. Children by 1st marriage:
3145 Rev. Walter Lusk, lived at Williamsburg, Mass.
3146 SiMON LusK, lived at Lisle, Chenango county, N. Y.
3147 Franklin Lusk, lived and d. at Binghamton, N. Y.
Children by 2d marriage:
3148 LoRENo Field, b. Aug. 19, 1815; lived at Putney, Wyndham coun-
ty, Vt.
3149 Lorenzo Field, (twin with Loreno), b. Aug. 19, 1815; m. (1)
Juliette Reed; she d. May 21, 1865, aged S years; he m. (2)
Sarah Rudd, b. Aug. 19, 1815. +
3150 William Field, resided at Westminster, Vt.
8th gen. Child of Lorenzo and Juliette Field, (3149):
3151 Sarah A. Field, b. 1847; m. 1876, Edward O. Blanchard; resided
in Boston, Mass.
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125e THANKFUL POMEROY, (Timothy, Daniel, Ebeneser, Medad,
Eltweed), b. April 25, 1779; m. Winston Day, b. 1767; d. Sept.
11, 1831.
7th gen. Children:
3152 Cornelia Day.
3153 Ann Ashley Day, b. Feb. 18, 1815; m. June 25, 1834, Edward
Augustus Deming, b. March 13, 1805, at Berlin, Conn.; d. Nov.
19, 1886, son of Seth Deming; she d. March 9, 1846. +
3154 Richard Day. 3155 James Day.
8th gen. Children of Ann A. and Edward A. Deming, (3153):
3156 Maria Sophia Deming, b. Feb. 10, 1836; d. Oct. 2, 1836.
3157 Cornelia Maria Deming, b. March 22, 1838; m. (1) Oct. 10,
1861, Rush Benjamin Whitmore; she m. (2) April 30, 1891, Hor-
ace D. Stowe. Res., Berlin, Conn.
3158 Laura Sophia Deming, b. May, 1840; d. Dec. 29, 1845.
3159 James Pomeroy Deming, b. June 20, 1844; d. June 10, 1846.
1278 NANCY POMEROY, {William, Daniel, Ebenezer, Medad, Elt-
zveed), b. April 11, 1780, Northampton; m. Dec. 1, 1801. William
Bolter, b. Feb. 11, 1767; she d. April 28, 1848.
7th gen. Children, b. Northampton, Mass,:
3160 Eleanor Bolter, b. March 25, 1804; d. April 28, 1807, North-
ampton.
3161 William Bolter, b. July 24, 1806.
3162 Clarissa Bolter, b. Jan. 9, 1809; m. May 25, 1831, Andrew S.
Purdy; she d. Feb. 22, 1890. Res., Ovid, N. Y. +
3163 Alfred Bolter, M.D., b. July 4, 1811; at the age of 19 years he
entered the Academy at Ovid, N. Y. ; after three years of study
and teaching, he commenced to study medicine and graduated
from the Geneva Medical Institute, about 1838 ; m. Elizabeth Coan ;
he practiced medicine at Ovid, his place of residence, over forty
years; entered with enthusiasm into the great temperance reform,
and became an eloquent and successful public speaker; he was
trustee of the Ovid Academy; member of the Geneva Medical
School, superintendent of the Sabbath School for twenty years,
and was universally esteemed for his wisdom and integrity; he d.
July 12, 1880, at Ovid, N. Y. Res., Ovid. +
3164 James Bolter, b. June 27, 1815; m. Feb. 11, 1846, Mary Stone
Bartholomew, b. July 7, 1820, d. July 26, 1898, dau. of Roswell
Bartholomew, and Sally Johnston Stone; he d. Sept. 20, 1900.
Banker. Res., Hartford, Conn. +
8th gen. Children of Clarissa and Andrew S. Purdy, (3162):
3165 James Purdy. 3169 Daniel Purdy.
3166 Nancy Purdy. 3170 Ellen Purdy.
3167 William Purdy. 3171 Edward Purdy.
3168 Mary Purdy.
Children of Dr. Alfred and Elisabeth Bolter, (3163):
3172 Sara Bolter, 3173 William Bolter.
Children of James and Mary S, Bolter, b, Hartford, Conn.,
(3164):
3174 James Pomeroy Bolter, b. Aug. 16, 1847; m. Sept 20, 1871,
Ellen A. Brown.
3175 Alice Elizabeth Bolter, b. July 16, 1851.
3176 Mary Clara Bolter, b. April 16, 1854; m. April 8, 1875, John
W. Gray.
1281 HENRY POMEROY, {WUliatn, Daniel Ebeneser, Medad, Bit-
weed), bp. March 26, 1786; m. Sarah Pomeroy, dau. of Simeon
Pomeroy; he d. Aug. 31, 1877, at Salem, Mich. He was a veteran
of the war of 1812.
7th gen. Children:
3177 Lewis Pomeroy. 3179 Thomas Pomeroy.
3178 Abigail Pomeroy.
1283 JAMES POMEROY, (tVUliam, Daniel, Ebeneser, Medad, Bit-
weed), b. Nov. 4, 1790, in Northampton; m. Dec. 11, 1811, Sally
Lyon, b. Jan. 19, 1791, d. Sept., 1850, at Cazenovia, N. Y., dau.
of Jesse E. and Lucy (Ransom) Lyon; he d. in 1869. Res.,
Cazenovia, N. Y.
yth gen. Children:
3180 Austin Lyon Pomeroy, b. about 1812. +
3181 Nancy Pomeroy, m. Samuel T. Jeffrey of Syracuse, N. Y.
3182 William Pomeroy, b. 1814. +
3183 Frederick Benjamin Pomeroy, b. 1816. +
3184 Hubbard Pomeroy. -f
3185 Charles Pomeroy, b. Jan. 9, 1823. ■+-
3186 Eliza Ellen Pomeroy, m. Eli N. Ransom of Perryville, N. Y.
1284 COL. THOMAS POMEROY, (IVilliam, Daniel, Bbenezer, Me-
dad. El tweed), b. Dec. 2, 1792, in Northampton; m. (1) Sept. 27,
1820, Naomi Wright; m. (2) Sarah Parsons; he d. in 1880. Res.,
Florence, Mass.
7//1 gen. Child:
3187 Thomas Wright Pomeroy, b. 1827. +
1286 DANIEL POMEROY, (IViUiam, Daniel, Ebeneser, Medad, Bit-
weed), b. March 28, 1798, in Northampton; m. Sept. 14, 1824,
Malah Blake, b. Feb. 8, 1799, in Springfield, Mass.; he went to
Longmeadow in 1810, and later to Lenox, where he learned the
cabinet making trade; after passing some years in Springfield,
where he m., and Ovid, N. Y., he moved to Salem, Mich., and
in 1873, settled at North ville.
jth gen. Children, 6. Ovid, N. Y., except Alfred:
3188 Son Pomeroy, b. Aug. 3, 1825; d. Aug. 23, 1825.
3189 Eleanor Pomeroy, b. Sept 10, 1828. +
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3190 George Blake Pomeroy, b. July 5, 1831. +
3191 Augustus Pomeroy, b. Aug. 22, 1836. +
3192 Mary N. Pomeroy, b. Aug. 8, 1838. +
3193 Alfred Blake Pomeroy, b. May 27, 1844. +
1346 MEDAD POMEROY, (Medad, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
h. Oct 18, 1758, in Suffield, Conn. ; m. March 28, 1790, Elizabeth
Morrell, dau. of Hugh Morrell, (a merchant of Boston, Mass.,
who had purchased 900 acres of land near where the city of
Springfield now stands, and d. there at the age of 104 years).
Medad, shortly after his marriage, bought a farm near the town
of Ashford, Mass.; in 1815, he moved with his family to Erie
county, Pa., and settled in the vicinity of Albion, which was then
a vast wilderness. He was a soldier of the Revolution, having
enlisted at the age of 16, serving under General Pomeroy in and
about Boston, and with Gen. Gates on the Delaware Bay. He
also served in Lieut.-Col. Samuel Canfield's regiment, and was in
three general engagements, including Germantown and Stony Point,
and several skirmishes; he received seven wounds, and when he
recovered from his injuries in the hospital he was appointed
Wagon-master, holding that position until he was discharged, in
1781. He lived to the age of 97 years.
7th gen. Children, b, in Ashford, Mass.:
3194 Nathaniel Pomeroy. + 3200 George Pomeroy. +
3195 Isaac Pomeroy. + 3201 Major James Pomeroy. +
3196 Uri Pomeroy. 3202 Harry Pomeroy. +
3197 Eunice Pomeboy. + 3203 Lyman Pomeroy.
3198 Sarah Pomeroy. + 3204 Capt. John Pomeroy. +
3199 Anna Pomeroy. +
3205 Elizabeth Pomeroy, m. Noah Ball.
1318 PHEBUS POMEROY, {Medad, Medad, Joseph. Medad, Elt-
weed), b. in Suffield, Conn., Jan. 6, 1762; m. Oct. 26, 1792, Caro-
line Pepper of West Springfield; he d. June, 1833.
7/A gen. Children:
3206 MosEs Pomeroy. 3209 Phebe Pomeroy.
3207 Jarvis Pomeroy. 3210 Caroline Pomeroy.
3208 Alpheus Pomeroy. +
1349 SYLVANUS POMEROY, (Medad, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. June 3, 1765, in Suffield; m. (1) Mercy Bebee; m. (2)
Emma Higgins, b. in 1773, d. Dec. 6, 1799.
7th gen. Children by ist wife:
3211 Wealthy Pomeroy, b. Sept. 3, 1788.
3212 Clarissa Pomeroy, b. April 27, 1790.
3213 Sophia Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1792.
3214 Sarah Pomeroy, b. Feb., 1794.
3215 Tryphena Pomeroy, b. March 7, 1795.
Child by 2d wife:
3216 Sylvanus Pomeroy, b. May 10, 1799. +
1350 DAVID POMEROY, (Medad, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. March 28, 1767, in Suffield; m. Polly Chamberlain; he d. in
Canandagua, N. Y.
7th gen. Children:
3217 Theodore Pomeroy, lived in Farmington, N. Y.
3218 Aaron Pomeroy, b. Aug. 1, 1793, in Northampton, Mass. +
3219 Cyreno Pomeroy.
1353 MOSES POMEROY, {Medad, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Oct. 2, 1773, in Suffield; m. Susan Bailey. Resided in New
Haven, Conn., where he d. Dec. 16, 1846.
7th gen. Children:
3220 Harriet Pomeroy. +
3221 Nancy Pomeroy, m. James Grant of Westfield, Mass.
3222 Medad Pomeroy, m. April 29, 1829, Mary Ann Meigs, b. Sept. 21,
1809; settled in Lenox, Mass., and d. there; she m. (2) Eben
Evarts.
3223 Moses A. Pomeroy. 3224 Asahel Pomeroy.
3225 Justin Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1818. +
3226 CuRTiss Pomeroy, b. about 1820; m. Nov. 24, 1842, Mary Jackson.
3227 Mary Pomeroy.
3228 Hannah Pomeroy, m. Chester Rockwell; settled in Peru, Berk-
shire county, Mass.
3229 Susan Jane Pomeroy.
1354 JERUSHA POMEROY, (Medad, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Feb. 5, 1776, in Suffield, Conn.; m. July 9, 1795, Thomas
Spring, (Thomas, Ephraigm, John, John, John), b. Oct. 15, 1765,
in Granby (Simsbury), Conn. He took his young wife to his
house, which he had built in Granby, and they lived there fifty-
three years, both dying there, he Jan. 6, 1849, and she Dec. 19,
1849. Both were buried in the family grave-yard, selected and
prepared by himself. He was a man of strong character and
business enterprise.
yth gen. Children, b. in Granby, Conn,:
3230 Aurora Spring, b. May 29, 1796; m. (1) Jan. 29, 1818, Josiah
Searles, b. July 6, 1793, d. June 5, 1828, son of Elijah Searles
and Thankful Austin; she m. (2) Dec. 7, 1845, Alanson Holcomb,
who d. June 5, 1862, ae. 84; she d. Oct. 16, 1880. +
3231 Thomas Spring, b. May 13, 1798; m. Feb. 4, 1824, Candace Hol-
comb, (Ebenezer, Peter, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Thomas), b. June
20, 1804; he d. June 5, 1868, at Bristol, Conn.; she d. Jan. 25,
1869, at Bristol, Conn. +
3232 Jerusha Spring, b. March 23, 1800; d. March 26, 1800.
3233 Jerusha Spring, b. March 14, 1801 ; m. Jan. 9, 1822, James Moore
Dibble, b. June 6, 1800, d. Aug. 8, 1838, son of Dan Dibble and
Urania Moore; she d. Oct. 27, 1844. +
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3234 Maria Spring, b. June 14, 1803 ; d. Jan. 7, 1804.
3235 Maria Spring, b. Nov. 29, 1804; m. Nov. 16, 1826, Riley Dibble,
b. July 7, 1802, d. March 21, 1885, son of Dan Dibble and Urania
Moore; she d. Aug. 23, 1893. 4-
3236 Albert Spring, b. Sept 13, 1807; d. Sept. 13, 1813.
3237 George Spring, b. Feb. 20, 1810; m. Nov. 10, 1835, Mahala Hol-
conib, b. May 27, 1811, d. May 3, 1895, dau. of Jabish end Sophia
Holcomb; he d. June 12, 1883. +
3238 Roxanna Spring, b. Aug. 8, 1812; m. May 21, 1850, Seth Gil-
lett, b. July 22, 1809, d. Feb. 14, 1892, son of Rodolphus Gillett
and Eunice Cushman; she d. Sept. 17, 1892.
3239 Albert Spring, b. June 9, 1816; d. Oct. 10, 1850, in Sacramento,
Cal. ; unm.
8th gen. Children of Aurora and Josiah Searles, (3230):
3240 Emeline Thankful Searle, b. Dec. 8, 1818; m. Oct. 9, 1838,
Chauncey Trask, b. May 8, 1814; she d. Aug. 27, 1840.
3241 Solomon Spring Searle, b. April 30, 1821 ; d. Sept. 2, 1825.
3242 Caroline Aurora Searle, b. March 2, 1826; m. May 22, 1844,
Joseph Arnold, Jr., b. Sept. 16, 1824; she m. (2) Dec. 25, 1850,
William Stevens, b. Sept. 9, 1819, d. April 5, 1883.
Children of Thomas and Candace Spring, (3231):
3243 Jerusha Candace Spring, b. Nov. 13, 1824; d. Sept. 5, 1847.
3244 Solomon Croswell Spring, b. Jan. 29, 1826; m. May 5, 1852,
Marcia I. Cowell. b. April 26, 1830, d. April 9, 1883; he m. (2)
Dec. 4, 1884, Catherine E. Gillett, b. Oct. 14, 1838; he d. May
16, 1906; she d. June 30, 1911.
3245 Henry Sampson Spring, b. Sept. 26, 1827; m. April 11, 1855,
Aurelia Spring, dau. of Milo Spring; he d. Oct. 11, 1862, at Can-
ton, Conn.; buried there.
3246 Edna Jane Spring, b. Oct. 29, 1829; m. Nov. 24, 1850, Warren
S. Frost, b. Jan. 19, 1827, d. April 20, 1899; she d. Sept. 20, 18%.
3247 Charles Thomas Spring, b. Sept. 13, 1831 ; m. Sept. 18, 1865,
Anna Smith, b. 1845; he d. June 15, 1907. Res., Bristol, Conn.
3248 Nancy Ann Spring, b. Oct. 21, 1833; m. Nov. 6, 1855, Alonzo
Bentley, b. Aug. 5, 1828, d. April 13, 1870; she d. April 7, 1908.
3249 Emma Eliza Spring, b. Sept. 8, 1835; Williston Seminary, East-
hampton, Mass., 1858; m. Nov. 30, 1858, Miron Case Brockett,
(Levi, Isaac, Isaac, Samuel, John, John), b. March 3, 1831, in
Simsbury, Conn., d. Dec. 2, 1879. Res., Bristol, Conn. +
3250 James Andrew Spring, b. March 16, 1838; m. Dec. 6, 1865,
Julia Parsons, b. April 26, 1845 ; soldier of the Civil War, with Co.
E, 16th Conn. Vol. Inf. ; d. Jan. 4, 1866.
3251 Edward Spring, b. (twin) Feb. 29, 1840; soldier of the Civil
War; m. (1) Orva Hand; m. (2) Jan. 1, 1868, Augusta Jennings,
of Southport, Conn., d. Nov. 21, 1910. *
3252 Edwin Spring, b. (twin) Feb. 29, 1840; m. Nov. 7, 1866, Lucy
Brockett, dau. of Levi Brockett and Lydia Case; he d. Feb, 28,
1905.
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3253 George Atwell Spring, b. May 11, 1843; m. Sept. 28, 1864,
Louise R. Wilkinson, b. March 10, 1846.
Children of Jerusha and James M, Dibble, (3233):
3254 James Spring Dibble, b. and d. Feb., 1832.
3255 Charles Gillette Dibble, (adopted), b. Oct. 1, 1831; d. Nov.
23, 1832.
Children of Maria and Riley Dibble, (3235):
3256 Riley Seymour Dibble, b. Oct. 20, 1829; m. March 14, 1849,
Cornelia Stevens, dau. of Justus and Martha Stevens; he d. March
12, 1856, in St. Paul, Minn.
3257 James Thomas Dibble, b. Oct. 3, 1837; d. Dec. 29, 1838.
Children of George and Mahala Spring, (3237):
3258 Cordelia Elmina Spring, b. Nov. 17, 1836; m. Dec. 9, 1857, Ed-
ward A. Steer, b. May 20, 1820, d. Nov. 17, 1889, son of Abel
and Alma Steer.
3259 Amanda Louise Spring, b. 1841 ; d. 1844.
3260 Monroe George Spring, b. May 22, 1845; m. May 3, 1871, Anna
Phillips, b. Dec. 28, 1851.
3261 Thomas Madison Spring, b. Feb. 20, 1847; m. June 9, 1869, Nora
Renick, who d. Aug. 7, 1873; m. (2) Nov. 12, 1874, Laura Brandt,
b. Nov. 12, 1854, d. May 3, 1886; he d. Dec. 21, 1888.
3262 Lewis Cass Spring, b. Jan. 21, 1851; m. April 24, 1872, Flora
Griflfin, b. Jan. 29, 1852, dau. of Homer and Susan Griffin.
3263 Amanda Louisa Spring, b. June 5, 1854; m. Oct. 29, 1873, Jef-
ferson Griffin, son of Homer and Susan Griffin.
Qth gen. Children of Emma Eliza and Miron C. Brockett, (3249):
3264 MiRA Isabelle Brockett, b. June 5, 1860, at Shelbume Falls,
Mass.; m. Sept. 8, 1881, Louis M. Webster of Avon, Conn., b.
Aug. 3, 1858, (a lineal descendant of Noah Webster), son of
Leverett Franklin Webster and wife Harriet Elizabeth Moses,
(Nathan, Michael, Michael, Caleb, John, John, John). Res., Hart-
ford, Conn. +
3265 Emma Jane Brockett, b. Dec. 31, 1861, in Collinsville, Conn.; m.
Dec. 22, 1880, Benjamin Franklin Judd, (Rev. Truman O., Chaun-
cey, Isaac, Joseph, Thomas, Lieut. Thomas, Dea. Thomas), b. in
North Haven, Conn., Oct. 12, 1857, son of Rev. Truman O. Judd
and Lucinda A. Hull, (Willis Hull, Nathaniel, Dr. John, Dr. Jere-
miah, John, Richard). Deacon Thomas Judd came with the Rev.
Thomas Hooker from England and settled in Cambridge, Mass.
Deacon Judd was one of the party that took the long march from
Cambridge to that portion of the Connecticut Valley now known
as Hartford, where Rev. Mr. Hooker established his church and
became the leading spirit of the new colony. Mr. Benjamin Frank-
lin Judd is of the firm of D. B. Judd & Co., extensive liunber and
coal dealers in Bristol, Conn., where he and Mrs. Judd have re-
sided since 1883. +
3266 Maud Augusta Brockett, b. July 16, 1868; d. Feb. 28, 1877.
3267 Phinehas Miron Brockett, b. Nov. 7, 1870; d. March 1, 1877.
}
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3268 Guy Hamilton Brockett, b. March 24, 1876; d. Feb. 28, 1877.
The last three children of Mr. and Mrs. Brockett were b. in Can-
ton, Conn., and buried in one wide grave there on March 2, 1877.
loth gen. Children of Mira I, and Louis M, Webster, (3264):
3269 Harry Brockett Webster, b. Feb. 8, 1883; d. Nov. 22, 1910;
unm.
3270 Maud Ada Webster, b. July 30, 1884; m. Dec. 17, 1903, Linwood
Ross Brewer of East Hartford, Conn.; she d. April 30, 1906. +
Child of Emma /. and Benjamin F, Judd, (3265):
3271 Benjamin Brockett Judd, b. Feb. 7, 1891 ; d. Aug. 17, 1895, at
Bristol, Conn.
nth gen. Child of Maud A, and Linzuood R, Bretver, (3270):
3272 Doris Webster Brewer, b. Sept. 13, 1904.
1356 RUFUS POMEROY, {Medad, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Dec. 24, 1780, at Northampton; m. (1) Huldah Graham; m. (2)
Frances Wright.
Jth gen. Children:
3273 Eunice Pomeroy, m. Mr. Briggs.
3274 Fanny Pomeroy, b. Sept. 17, 1822. +
3275 Laura Pomeroy, m. Mr. Ferry. +
1357 ANNE POMEROY, {Medad, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Nov. 10, 1784, at Northampton; m. (1) Nov. 24, 1805, David
Kelton; m. (2) Israel Pilgrim; she d. 1846.
7/A gen. Children:
3276 William Kelton. 3277 Hannah Kelton.
1360 ELISHA POMEROY, (Seth, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltiveed),
b. Aug. 7, 1763, Suffield; m. (1) Submit Greene; m. (2) Lucy
Rice, s. p. by her; he d. about 1860, Yorkshire Center, N. Y.
jth gen. Children by ist wife:
3278 LuciNDA Pomeroy, b. 1785. +
3279 Laura Pomeroy, b. May 18, 1787. +
3280 Isaac Allen Pomeroy, b. 1789.
3281 Dr. Ebenezer Green Pomeroy, b. about 1790. +
3282 John Pomeroy. +
3283 Seth Pomeroy, b. March 20, 1795. +
3284 Cynthia Pomeroy. 3285 Charles Pomeroy.
1364 PHINEHAS POMEROY, (Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Elt^
weed), b. Sept. 4, 1757, in Suffield, Conn.; m. in 1780, Rebecca
Spaulding, b. March 17, 1758, dau. of Uriah and Susannah Spauld-
ing. He was a soldier of the Revolution; enlisted Dec. 17, 1776,
in Capt. George King's company, Col. Benjamin Simond's detach-
ment of Berkshire county militia; served at Ticonderoga 98 days;
also, in Lieut. Eli Harmon's company, Col. John Brown's Berk-
shire county regiment; entered service June 30, 1777, discharged
343 i^txtt; (ftnt^nttiott - Mihwb
July 21, 1777, at Fort Ann, N. Y.; also, enlisted Sept. 27, 1778,
discharged Feb. 24, 1779, at North River; also, joined Lieut. Eli-
phalet Hastings' company. Col. Poor's regiment, pay-roll dated Dec,
1778, at King's Ferry. He settled at King's Ferry, Cavuga Co.,
N. Y.
7/A gen. Children:
3286 Reuben Pomeroy, b. 1783. +
3287 Clarissa Pomeroy, m. Mr. Howard.
3288 William Pomeroy. 3289 James Pomeroy.
3290 Phinehas Pomeroy, b. about 1787. +
3291 Sally Pomeroy. 3292 Betsey Pomeroy.
1365 PELATIAH POMEROY, {Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
ivecd), b. April 2, 1759, in Suffield; m. March 3, 1783, Hannah
Foster, b. March 8, 1763, d. 1841; he d. Aug., 1828. He was a
soldier of the Revolution from Connecticut and New Hampshire.
He settled at Winchester, N. H.
Jth gen. Children:
3293 William Martin Pomeroy, b. Nov. 19, 1783; d. May, 1849.
3294 LucEBA Pomeroy, b. May 7, 1785; m. and lived in Watertown,
Mass.; d. in 1854.
3295 Hannah Foster Pomeroy, b. Feb. 11, 1787; d. June, 1833.
3296 Thankful Pomeroy, b. April 2, 1789; m.; d. April 9, 1849.
3297 Henry Foster Pomeroy, b. Nov. 21, 1790; d. March 20, 1816.
3298 Abigail Foster Pomeroy, b. Aug. 29, 1792. +
3299 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. Oct. 1, 1795; d. March, 1858.
3300 Rachel Belden Pomeroy, b. July 10, 1798; d, Oct. 10, 1879.
3301 Phinehas Pomeroy, b. May 6, 1800. +
1386 SIMEON POMEROY, {Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Elh
weed), b. July 1, 1761, in Suffield; m. March 28, 1782, Theda
Miner, who d. at Norfolk, Ct, April, 1794; he d. there May, 1793.
He was a soldier of the Revolution from New Marlborough ; joined
the Continental army and marched into camp July 2, 1780; dis-
charged Dec. 20, 1780; also, private in Lt.-Col. Calvin Smith's regi-
ment, April 1, 1779, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, private in Col. Dudley
Coleman's company, March and April, 1779.
//A gen. Children:
3302 Anna Pomeroy, b. 1783; m. (1) David Brady; m. (2) David
Sheldon.
3303 Theda Pomeroy, (twin with Anna), b. 1783. +
3304 Elijah Pomeroy, b. June 11, 1886. +
3305 Elisha Pomeroy, (twin with Elijah), b. June 11, 1786. +
1367 GROVE POMEROY, {Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eli-
weed'), b. March 13, 1763, in Suffield; m. March 9, 1786, at
Canaan, Conn., Eunice Marsh, b. 1768; he d. April 15, 1830, at
West Stockbridge; she m. (2) Benjamin Hows, who d. Feb. 14,
1839; she d. at West Stockbridge, March 11, 1843. Grove was
dtntaiass of % Poitttriig Jamilg 344
called Colonel. He was a Revolutionary soldier, joining Capt.
Allen's company as private from New Marlborough; he was in
Col. Smith's regiment from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 1, 1780; also,
Capt. Ebenezer Smith's company, 6th Mass. regiment, Lieut.-Col.
Smith, commanding; also, Capt. Peter Clay's light infantry com-
pany, Lieut.-Col. Smith's regiment; also, two other enlistments.
He settled in West Stockbridge, Mass.
7/A gefu Children:
3306 Sybil Pomeroy, b. June 22, 1787. +
3307 Grove Pomeroy, b. April 4, 1789. +
3308 Laura Pomeroy, b. Oct. 10, 1791. +
3309 Electa Pomeroy, b. Nov. 15, 1793; d. Sept. 25, 1798.
3310 Lois Pomeroy, b. Jan. 19, 1796, West Stockbridge; m. (1) Jan. 1,
1816, Pomeroy Toby, at New Canaan; m. (2) Mr. Reynolds;
mentioned in her father's will; she d. a widow.
3312 Hiram Pomeroy, b. Jan. 18, 1798. +
3313 George Pomeroy, b. March 18, 1800, West Stockbridge; m. Lydia
Pulver, at Hudson, N. Y. ; he d. at Plymouth, Ind. ; had children.
3314 Elbridge Gerry Pomeroy, b. Jan. 11, 1802, West Stockbridge; d.
there Sept. 15, 1803.
3315 MiLo Pomeroy, b. Jan. 3, 1805, West Stockbridge; d. there.
3316 Sophronia Eliza Pomeroy, b. June 21, 1806. +
3317 Albert Pomeroy, b. Dec. 23, 1808, Hillsboro, Pa.; d. July 26, 1810,
at West Stockbridge.
1368 JOEL POMEROY, {Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Dec. 7, 1764, at Suffield, Conn.; m. (1) 1790, Thankful Gratia
Sedgwick, b. 1775, d. 1801, dau. of Benjamin Sedgwick and Mary
Tuttle; he m. (2) in 1805, Betsey Carey of Hartford, Conn. En-
gaged in stage line and transportation business. Resided in Nor-
folk and New Canaan, Conn.
7//j gen. Children by ist wife:
3318 Theodore Pomeroy, b. Nov. 4, 1792. +
3319 Mary Pomeroy, b. Feb. 1, 1795. +
3320 Eliza Pomeroy, b. Dec. 9, 1796. +
Children by 2d wife, fc. Cattaan, Conn.:
3321 Gr-\tl\ Pomeroy, b. July 28, 1806. +
3322 Frederick Pomeroy, b. Jan. 11, 1808. +
3323 Jane Pomeroy, b. March 10, 1810. +
3324 Joel Pomeroy, b. July 9, 1812; d. young.
3325 Lavia Pomeroy, m. Leander Hitchcock.
3326 Charles Pomeroy, m. +
3327 George Pomeroy, m. and moved to Texas; the entire family per-
ished in the Galveston calamity of 1898.
1389 EBENEZER POMEROY, (Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad,
Eltweed), b. Jan. 31, 1769, in New Marlborough, Mass.; m. Sept.
11, 1799, Sarah Griswold, b. about 1775, Stockbridge, Mass., d.
Aug. 12, 1837, Allegheny, Pa., dau. of Ezekiel Griswold (David,
345 i^ixtlf (ftrttnratfam - HbHail
Daniel, George, Edward), and Anna Griswold; he d. May 10,
1829, West Stockbridge, Resided in Great Harrington and West
Stockbridge. He was a wool merchant, and later engaged in the
stage and transportation business between Great Harrington, Pitts-
field and Northampton. Previous to his marriage he was in the
real estate business in Norfolk and Canaan, Conn. Sarah Gris-
wold Pomerov was named in her father's will. Ezekiel Griswold
was a soldier of the Revolution, with hve enlistments between June,
1777, and Nov., 1781.
yth gen. Children:
3328 Sally (Sarah) Pomeroy, b. Sept. 8, 1801. +
3329 Samantha Pomeroy, bp. Sept. S, 1802, Norfolk, Conn.; d. young.
3330 Aurelia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 5, 1804, Canaan, Conn. +
3331 William Pomeroy, b. March 4, 1808, Canaan, Conn.; d. April 30,
1831, at Great Harrington; buried by the side of his father at
West Stockbridge, the original stones, well preserved, marking both
graves; unm.
3332 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. Sept. 29, 1810, Canaan, Conn. +
3333 Julia Pomeroy, b. 1814, Great Harrington, Mass. +
3334 George Washington Pomeroy, b. March 5, 1818, Great Barring-
ton, Mass. +
1370 JERUSHA POMEROY, {Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Feb. 25, 1771, in New Marlborough; m. Philo Toby.
yth gen. Child:
3335 Pomeroy Toby.
1375 OLIVER POMEROY, (Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. March 6, 1780, New Marlborough, Mass.; m. Mary
Platte.
7th gen. Children:
3336 Daniel Pomeroy, b. ; went to New York in 1826. +
3337 Phinehas Pomeroy, m. and settled at Franklin, Pa.; no children.
3338 Cyril Benedict Pomeroy. b. Dec. 20, 1808. +
3339 Louisa Pomeroy, b. about 1810. +
3340 Lucy Pomeroy, b. about 1813. +
1376 ELIZABETH POMEROY, (Phinehas, Medad, Joseph, Medad,
Eltiveed), b. March 9, 1783, New Marlborough, Mass.; m. Feb.
24, 1802, Solomon Smith, b. Oct. 16, 1772, Southwick, Mass., d.
Dec. 20, 1848; she d. Nov. 20, 1863. +
ph gen. Child:
3341 Solomon Albert Smith, b. July 22, 1815, Southwick, Mass.; m.
June 24, 1851, Pittsfield, Mass., by Rev. John Todd, D. D., Man
Loomis Laflin; he d. Nov. 25, 1879, Chicago. H-
8th gen. Child:
3342 Byron Laflin Smith, b. May 1, 1853, at Sagerties, N. Y.; m.
May 24, 1876, Carrie Cornelia Stone, b. April 1, 1856, Brooklyn,
dtmniass <*^ ^^ Pmnrrog Jamtlg 346
N. Y., dau. of Rensselaer Stone and wife Zenana Josl)m. Presi-
dent of the Northern Trust Co., Chicago. Residence, Chicago, and
Forest Lake, 111. +
pth gen. Children of Byron L, and Carrie C. Smith, (3342):
3343 Solomon Albert Smith, b. Feb. 28, 1877; m. June 2, 1900,
Fredrika Shumway. +
3344 Walter Byron Smith, b. Dec. 29, 1878; m. June 6, 1905, Flor-
ence McCullough. H"
3345 Harold Cornelius Smith, b. Sept. 19, 1882; m. Nov. 19, 1907,
London, England, Emily Bimie. +
3346 Bruce Donald Smith, b. Aug. 13, 1885, Lake Forest, 111. ; m. Jan
14, 1909, Pauline Mackay. +
loth gen. Children of Solomon A, and Fredrika Smith, (3343):
3347 Mari Shumway Smith, b. Nov. 11, 1901, Chicago.
3348 Solomon Byron Smith, b. April 20, 1905, Chicago.
3349 Edward Byron Smith, b. March 22, 1909, Chicago.
Child of Walter B. and Florence Smith, (3344):
3350 WiNNiFRED Byron Smith, b. June 15, 1906.
Child of Harold C. and Emily Smith, (3345) :
3351 Harold Byron Smith, b. Sept 19, 1909, Chicago.
Child of Bruce D, and Pauline Smith, (3346):
3352 Bruce Donald Smith, Jr., b. March 25, 1910, Chicago.
1473 RHODA POMEROY, (Isaac, Joseph, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Aug. 11, 1773, Suffield, Ct; m. Jan. 24, 1793, Seth Phelps Shel-
don, b. Jiuie 28, 1762, Suffield, d. Dec. 13, 1827, Rupert, Vt., son of
Capt. Simeon Sheldon and Grace Phelps; she d. June 30, 1863,
Rupert, Vt. Seth P. Sheldon was a farmer and settled in Rupert;
he was deacon of the Congregational church there, and singing
teacher.
jth gen. Children, b. Rupert, Vt.:
3353 Betsey Sheldon, b. Sept. 28, 1794; d. Nov. 26, 1800, Rupert.
3354 Henry Sheldon, M.D., b. Jan. 30, 1797; m. Sept. 22, 1824, Eliza-
beth Gordon Harris, Canaan, N. H., b. March 17, 1800, d. March
30, 1835, Rupert, dau. of Joshua Harris and Miriam Johnson;
he m. (2) Dec. 3, 1835, Patience Hopkins, b. May 8, 1803, Salem,
N. Y., d. June 13, 1864, Rupert, dau. of George Hopkins and Pa-
tience Osgood. Henry Sheldon prepared for college in Gran-
ville (N. Y.) Academy; entered Middlebury College, 1816; was
graduated, 1818, studied medicine in Castleton, Vt., and with Dr.
Moses Hale in Troy, N. Y. ; in Middlebury College Catalogue it
is said that he obtained degrees of A.B. and M.D. elsewhere;
physician in Rupert 1821-1864; postmaster there about 25 years;
town clerk, 1824-1844 and 1846-1862; State Senator from Ben-
nington county, 1841-1842. He d. July 9, 1872, at Dorset, Vt. +
3355 Maria Sheldon, b. Dec. 18, 1798, Rupert, Vt. ; m. March 30, 1825,
Har\'ey Sykes, b. Aug. 12, 1795, Dorset, Vt., d. Nov. 7, 1863, Dor-
34r i^xtl; dtmrutUm - HbHail
set, son of Israel Sykes and Anna Sheldon; she d. March 2, 1879,
Dorset. +
3356 Seth Sheldon, b. Feb. 11, 1803; m. Sept. 13, 1827, Marina Ann
Rising, b. Sept. 27, 1806, d. May 17, 1873, dau. of Capt. Simeon
Rising and Esther Jones; he d. March 26, 1874, Rupert. Fanner,
singing teacher; and 1841-1842, was town Representative. +
3357 Simeon Sheldon, b. March 13, 1806; m. Feb. 24, 1831, Lois
Eastman, b. Sept. 18, 1806, East Rupert, Vt., d. Feb. 23, 1893,
Rock Falls, 111., dau. of Enoch Eastman and Sarah Rising; removed
to Illinois, 1872; he d. Nov. 28, 1884, Gibson City, 111. Fanner;
town (Rupert) representative. +
3358 Rhoda Sheldon, b. May 9. 1808; m. Feb. 5, 1829, Rupert, Alex-
ander Bliss, b. March 25, 1804, Greenwich, N. Y., d. Jan. 31, 1859,
son of Henry Bliss and Mehitable Gage; Rhoda d. March 12,
1892, Dorset. +
3359 Julia Sheldon, b. April 5, 1812; m. Sept. 14, 1836, Rupert, Wil-
liam Williams, b. April 13, 1807, Dorset, d. Feb. 8, 1878, Dorset,
son of Oliver Williams and Abigail Kent; Julia d. Jan. 19, 1892,
Dorset. +
3360 Mary Sheldon, b. April 11, 1817; m. Sept. 20, 1849, Rupert, John
Moore, b. March 6, 1796, East Rupert, d. May 21, 1875, Dorset,
son of Grove Moore and Mary Buel. +
3361 Louisa Sheldon, b. March 19, 1819; d. Dec. 11, 1843, Rupert.
8tk gen. Children of Dr, Henry and Elisabeth G. Sheldon, b.
Rupert, Vt., (3354):
3362 Henry Clay Sheldon, b. Nov. 18, 1825; m. June 6, 1855, Loraine
Bigelow Waters, Rome, N. Y., b. Jan. 24, 1831, Bennington, Vt.,
d. June 8, 1882, Troy, N. Y., dau. of Capt. Elisha Waters and
Martha Parsons Taylor; he d. July 25, 1904, Dorset. Druggist in
Troy, N. Y., 1850-85; Madison, Wis., 1886-96. Res., Dorset,
Vt. +
3363 Frances Elizabeth Sheldon, b. March 19, 1827; m. Jan. 15,
1851, William C. Hatch. Dorset, Vt, 1911.
3364 Eliza Marsh Sheldon, b. Feb. 18, 1830; m. Sept. 24, 1857,
Spafford Field Holley. Dorset, Vt, 1911.
3365 Arthur Harris Sheldon, b. May 29, 1832; m. Aug. 21, 1856,
Sarah E. Swett; he d. Dec 22, 1911, Chelmsford, Mass.
3366 Ann Loraine Sheldon, b. March 18, 1835; d. March 26, 1835,
Rupert.
Children of Dr, Henry and (^d wife) Patience Sheldon, (3354):
3367 George Hopkins Sheldon, b. Sept 4, 1836; d. May 13, 1855,
Rupert.
3368 Martha Ann Sheldon, b. Aug. 22, 1840; d. April 18, 1844,
Rupert.
Children of Maria and Harvey Sykes, b. Dorset, Vt,, (3355):
3369 Mary A. Sykes, b. March 19, 1826; d. Jan. 9, 1895, Dorset; unm.
3370 Seth P. Sykes, b. June 15, 1828; m. (1) at Manchester, Vt, Nov.
24, 1858, Mercy Ann Smith; (2) at Salem, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1875,
Eunice Weaver.
<SrtteaUi$g of tift Pmttrroti Jamilg 34B
3371 William Harvey Sykes, b. May 19, 1833; m. at Dorset, Vt., Jan.
22, 1857, Phcdora E. Prescott; he d. Nov. 7, 1868. Dorset
3372 DwiGHT Sykes, b. Jan. 29, 1837; m. Oct. 16, 1873, Serena Helena
Hitchcock, (widow of Duane Martin) ; she d. May 1, 1909, Dorset,
Vt. Military service in the Civil War with Co. C, 14th Vt. Vol.
Inf. ; wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa. ; d. March 13, 1905,
Dorset.
3373 Leroy Sykes, b. Oct. 27, 1840; m. at Dorset, Vt., May 1, 1867,
Cornelia Fitch; d. Dec. 21, 1893, Winchendon, Mass.
Children of Seth and Marina A. Sheldon, b. Rupert, Vt., (3356):
3374 Earl Rising Sheldon, b. June 5, 1828; d. Sept. 20, 1830.
3375 Seth Sheldon, b. Aug. 3, 1830; d. Sept. 12, 1830.
3376 Marina Ann Sheldon, (twin with Seth), b. Aug. 3, 1830; d.
Sept. 21, 1830.
3377 Edward Olcott Sheldon, b. Jan. 16, 1832; d. Nov. 25, 1834.
3378 Myra Sheldon, b. Oct. 19, 1833; d. Nov. 18, 1833.
3379 Ann Louisa Sheldon, b. July 21, 1835; m. Sept. 27, 1864, Ed-
ward P. Sheldon; d. Feb. 17, 1910, Rupert, Vt., where the other
children of this family d.
3380 Cornelius White Sheldon, b. Aug. 25, 1837; d. Dec. 4, 1837.
3381 Mary Cornelia Sheldon, b. Dec. 18, 1838; m. May 31, 1863,
DeWitt C. Beebe, Sparta, Wis., 1910.
3382 Albert Pomeroy Sheldon, b. Dec. 24, 1841 ; military service in
the Civil War with the 14th Vt. Vol. Inf.; m. Oct. 18, 1865, Julia
C. Sheldon. Merchant in Rupert; town Representative, 1888;
State Senator from Bennington county, 1896. Rupert, Vt., 1910.
3383 Henry Clay Sheldon, b. Nov. 23, 1844; m. June 15, 1895, Mary
Magdalena Dolch, at Los Angeles, Cal. ; he d. Dec. 14, 1909,
Whittier, Cal.
3384 Theodore Frelinghuysen Sheldon, b. (twin with Henry) Nov.
23, 1844; m. Nov. 1, 1871, Harriet E. Meacham; he d. June 7,
1892, Ransom, Mich.
Children of Simeon and Lois Sheldon, b, Rupert, Vt,, (3357):
3385 Edgar J. Sheldon, b. June 3, 1832; m. March 20, 1866, Mary A.
Sheldon, Pomona, Cal., 1910.
3386 Maria C Sheldon, b. Dec. 29, 1833; m. Sept. 17, 1857, E. Har-
vey Sheldon. Los Angeles, Cal., 1911.
3387 Sarah E. Sheldon, b. May 10, 1836; m. Jan. 27, 1870, Albert M.
Phelps. Redlands, Cal., 1911.
3388 Seth P. Sheldon, b. Nov. 20, 1838; military service. Civil War,
with Co. C, 14th Vt. Vol. Inf.; m. Jan. 30, 1867, Ella Stark; he
d. Feb. 10, 1892, Tecumseh, Mich.
3389 Enoch E. Sheldon, b. Aug. 19, 1840; d. May 19, 1842, Rupert, Vt.
3390 Henry Kirk Sheldon, b. Jan. 28, 1843; m. Dec. 5, 1872, Saman-
tha Miller. Portland, Ore., 1911.
3391 John Sheldon, b. Dec. 14, 1844; d. Dec. 16, 1888, Ouray, Colo.;
unm.
3392 Louise Sheldon, b. Oct. 6, 1846; m. June 3, 1874, Charles Sax-
ton. Redlands, Cal., 1911.
349 i^lxtlf (Setmratiott - M^hwh
3393 CoRiNNE Sheldon, b. Oct. 29, 1848; m. Dec. 8, 1874, Oscar A.
Oliver. Morrison, III, 1911.
Children of Rhoda and Alexander Bliss, b, Dorset, Vt,, (3358):
3394 Sheldon Henry Bliss, b. Feb. 20, 1830; m. March 9, 1857, Myra
Rising; he d. Jan. 28, 1894, Constantine, Mich.
3395 Albert Duval Bliss, b. April 17, 1833; m. Dec. 31, 1860, Mira
J. Evans; he d. Jan. 14, 1864, Oshkosh, Wis.
3396 Eliza Bliss, b. Oct. 29, 1836; m. March 24, 1861, John Underhill
Armstrong; Albion, N. Y., 1911.
Children of Julia and William Williams, b, Dorset, Vt., (3359):
3397 Edward Huntington Williams, b. Dec. 17, 1838; d. Nov. 18,
1856, Dorset.
3398 George Herbert Williams, b. June 19, 1843; military service,
Civil War, with Co. D, 11th Vt. Vol. Inf.; m. May 21, 1873, Helen
Elizabeth Sykes. Dorset, 1911.
3399 Charles Norman Williams, b. Feb. 10, 1847; m. May 21, 1873,
Jennie A. Danforth. Dorset, 1911.
3400 Mary Louisa Williams, b. Julv 5, 1852; m. May 15, 1878, Fred-
erick F. Gilbert; d. Nov. 15, 1881, Dorset.
Children of Mary and John Moore, b. East Rupert, Vt,, (3360):
3401 Louise Moore, b. 1851; d. 1852.
3402 Rhoda Maria Moore, b. Oct. 24, 1854; m. Sept. 25, 1890, Robert
Titus Coan. Albion, N. Y., 1911.
p/A gen. Children of Henry C. and Loraine B. Sheldon, (3362):
3403 Mary Elizabeth Sheldon, b. May 10, 1856, Troy, N. Y. ; d.
March 5, 1862, Troy.
3404 Harriet Taylor Sheldon, b. Nov. 5, 1859, Troy, N. Y. ; m. Oct.
21, 1884, Troy, Arvin Wood Harrington, Jr. Troy, 1911.
3405 George Henry Sheldon, b. July 2, 1862, Rupert, Vt.; m. Dec. 7,
1886, Niles, Mich., Gertrude Eliza Bacon. Rock Island, 1911.
3406 Bessie Harris Sheldon, b. May 17, 1867, Troy, N. Y. Minne-
apolis, Minn., 1911.
3407 flARRY Waters Sheldon, b. Sept. 28, 1869, Troy, N. Y. ; m. Sept.
20, 1900, Annie Church Bourn, Dorset, Vt. Yonkers, N. Y.. 1911.
1474 EUNICE POMEROY, {Isaac, Joseph, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Feb. 24, 1776, at Suffield, Conn.; m. there Dec. 27, 1797, Major
Joel Harmon (his second wife), he b. May 17, 1772, at Suffield,
d. March 17, 1833, at York, Pa., son of Dea. Joel Harmon and
wife Chloe Sheldon; he was a teacher of music, and at York, was
preparing an extended work on music at the time of his death.
"The Sacred Minstrel," of which he was the author, was pub-
lished in 1828, by George Fleming of Carlisle, Pa., publisher; the
later work was published after the death of the author; Mrs.
Eunice Pomeroy Harmon d. July 26, 1867, at Seneca, N. Y.
yth gen. Children, b. Pawlet, Vt., except last four:
3408 Milton Harmon, b. Sept. 4, 1798; m. Feb. 14, 1821, Lucretia
Wales, Richland, N. Y. ; d. March 16, 1885, Oswego, N. Y. Mcr-
chant.
(ftrttralo$g of tift Pomrrog Jamttti 350
3409 Clarissa Hascall Harmon, b. May 8, 1800; m. Jan. 15, 1827,
Cornelius Mars Rice, Andover, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 26, 1874, Clifton,
W. Va. He was a carpenter and joiner.
3410 Emily Harmon b. May 18, 1802; m. June 5, 1832, Rev. Lorin
Bennett, Geneva, N. Y. ; d. May 23, 1874, Phillips Creek, X. Y.
3411 Major Hiram Harmon, b. May 6, 1804; m. Nov. 22, 1829, Mary
Warren Davis, Andover, N. Y. ; d. April 11, 1842, Cedar Keys,
Fla. Teacher, farmer, merchant; military service in the Seminole
war; d. in service.
3412 Julia Ann Harmon, b. March 18, 1806; m. Dec. 20, 1828, Ed-
ward Owen Rice, Andover, N. Y. ; d. Dec. 10, 1879, Seneca, N.
Y. He was a farmer.
3413 Catharine Harmon, b. March 1. 1808; m. Sept. 28. 1830. Ar-
menius Wardner, Andover, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 23, 1896, Phillips Creek,
N. Y. He was a farmer.
3414 Marietta Smith Harmon, b. April 1, 1810; m. Jan. 7, 1836,
Dcming Wardner, Andover, N. Y. ; d. Aug. 9, 1886, Ravenswood,
W. Va. He was a farmer.
3415 Jemima Harmon, b. April 6, 1812, Richland, N. Y.; m. May 28,
1835, Edgar Henry King; d. Jan. 7, 1897, Ravenswood, W. Va.
He was a farmer.
3416 Cyrus Manuel Harmon, b. June 29, 1814, Richland, N. Y. ; m.
Oct. 2, 1835, Louisa Ann King, Andover, N. Y. ; d. July 15, 1868,
Homellsville, N. Y. Editor.
3417 Silas Sykes Harmon, b. May 24, 1816, Richland, N. Y. ; m. June
9, 1844, Frances Minerva Walworth, Montgomery, N. Y. ; d. Dec.
3, 1883, Berkeley, Cal. Clerg>'man and teacher; principal in the
academy at Montgomery, N. Y., Sept., 1848.
3418 William Pomeroy Harmon, b. Nov. 28, 1819, Seneca, N. Y. ; m.
Dec. 27, 1864, Martha Priscilla Rippey, Seneca, N. Y. ; both living
at Geneva, N. Y., 1896. Teacher and farmer; military service in
the Civil War, with the 148th N. Y. \'ol. Inf.
1475 ISAAC POMEROY, (Isaac, Joseph, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. June 17, 1784, West Suffield, Conn.; m. Jan. 8, 1806, Anne
King, West Suffield, b. May 23. 1782, d. Jan. 9, 1866, dau. of
Theodore King and wife Anna Mather; he d. Oct. 8, 1841, West
Suffield.
7th gen. Children, &. and d. at West Suffield, Conn.:
3419 Rhoda Pomeroy, b. March 30, 1811. +
3420 Eunice Pomeroy, b. Dec. 13, 1813. +
3421 Ann Mather Pomeroy, b. April 5, 1817; d. Julv 29, 1833; unm.
3422 Mary Mather Pomeroy, b. Feb. 4, 1820; d. Oct. 2, 1851; unm.
1476 WILLIAM POMEROY, (Isaac, Joseph, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Feb. 20, 1789, West Suffield, Conn.; m. Miss Spear;
he d. March 3, 1862, Southampton, Mass. Merchant at South-
ampton.
7th gen. Child:
3423 William Spear Pomeroy, b. Jan. 31, 1817, Suffield, Conn. +
351 i^ixtt; dfrnruOm - Utriiail
1477 JERUSHA POMEROY, (Isaac, Joseph, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. March 14, 1791, Suffield, Conn.; m. about 1813, James King
Sheldon, b. June 20. 1791, Suffield, Conn., d. Jan. 17, 1880, South-
ampton, Mass., son of Col. Thomas Sheldon and Abiah King; she
d. Aug. 31, 1838, Southampton; he m. (2) April 14, 1841, Hannah
Lyman, b. Southampton, dau. of Gaius Lyman, d. May 15, 1878, ae.
80. Res., Southampton.
^th gen. Children, b. Southampton, Mass.:
3424 Catharine Abiah Sheldon, b. Aug. 4, 1814; m. Sept. 5, 1844,
Charles R. Morehead, b. Jan. 1, 1800, Fauquier Co., Va., d. Nov.
5, 1880, son of Turner Morehead and wife Polly Ann Hove; she d.
Nov. 19, 1874, Leavenworth, Kas. Res.. Leavenworth. -1-
3425 William Henry Sheldon, b. 1816; went to Ravenna, Ohio, 1838;
d. Sept. 7, 1841, Southampton; unm. Teacher, tutor at Western
Reserve College, Hudson, O.
3426 James Sheldon, b. June 11, 1818; m. Harriet Sheldon, b. West-
field, Mass., d. May 10, 1876, dau. of Thomas Sheldon and Lucy
Palmer ; he d. April 20, 1874, s. p., Brooklyn, N. Y. Res., Brooklyn.
3427 Elizadeth S. Sheldon, b. 1821; d. Dec. 22, 1857, Southampton;
unm.
3428 Nancy C. Sheldon, b. Sept. 15, 1823; m. June 6, 1843, Rev. Lewis
Franklin Clark, b. Sept. 11, 1812, Southampton, d. Oct. 13, 1870,
son of Oliver Clark and wife Cynthia Clapp; she d. Sept. 18, 1896.
Res., Whitinsville, Mass. +
3429 Jerusha P. Sheldon, b. 1826; d. Aug. 26, 1837, Southampton.
3430 Mary Sheldon, b. Nov. 17, 1827: m. Oct. 27, 1857, Dr. Rowse
Reynolds Clarke, b. Feb. 12, 1822, Kingston, R. L, d. Feb. 4, 1888,
son of Rowse Clarke and wife Lucy Reynolds; she d. Sept. 7, 1904.
Res., Whitinsville, Mass. 4-
8th gen. Children of Catharine A, and Charles R. Morehead,
3424.1 Jerusha Pomeroy Morehead, b. June 13, 1845; d. July 17, 1851.
3424.2 Henry Sheldon Morehead, b. June 23, 1847; m. Jan. 8, 1876,
Mary T. Williams ; d. May 19, 1897.
3424.3 Mary Elizabeth Morehead, b. Dec. 19, 1848; d. May 4, 1850.
3424.4 Edward Allen Morehead, b. May 26, 1850; d. Aug. 29, 1851.
3424.5 Robert Turner Morehead, b. Feb. 1, 1852.
3424.6 Kate Sheldon Morehead, b. Jan. 26, 1855; m. Jan. 26, 1876, Bur-
nett Hughes.
Children of Nancy C. and Rev. Leziis F. Clark, (3428), b. Whitins-
ville, Mass.:
3428.1 Roderick Sheldon Clark, b. Aug. 13, 1845; d. May 6, 1846, South-
ampton.
3428.2 Louisa Payson Clark, b. Aug. 1, 1848; d. May 11, 1850, Whitins-
ville.
3428.3 Catharine Sheldon Clark, b. Jan. 27, 1851; m. Oct 8, 1879,
Arthur Fletcher Whitin.
3428.4 James Oliver Clark, b. May 14, 1854; d. Oct. 4, 1854, Whitinsville.
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3428.5 Edward Strong Clark, b. Dec. 7. 1855; m. Oct. 20, 1880, Theo
Taft.
Children of Mary and Dr. Rmvse R. Clarke, (3430), b. Whitins-
ville:
3430.1 Mary Reynolds Clarke, b. Oct. 7, 1859.
3430.2 William Sheldon Clarke, b. July 31, 1864; d. July 23, 1866,
Whitinsville.
3430.3 Annie Louise Clarke, b. Sept 17, 1866.
1480 EUNICE POMEROY, (Ralph, Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Nov. 25, 1776; m. (1) Rev. Amos Bassett, D.D., (his
third wife) of Hebron, Conn.; m. (2) Oct. 24, 1832, Dyer White
(his third wife) of Windham, Conn.
yth gen. Child by ist marriage:
3431 John G. Bassett, b. Aug., 1807; m. ; d. 1845, New York City,
leaving a son and daughter.
Child by 2d marriage:
3432 Eunice White.
1484 SAMUEL WYLLYS POMEROY, {Eleazer, Benjamin, Joseph,
Medad, Eltweed), b. 1765, in Hebron. Conn.; m Sept. 7, 1791,
Clarissa AIsop, b. June 3, 1770, dau. of Richard AIsop and Mary
Wright, of Middletown, Conn. Resided in Boston, Mass., for a
time, and in 1832 founded Pomeroy, Ohio, where he developed the
first large coal fields in that region; later resided in Cincinnati,
Ohio, where he d. in 1841.
^th gen. Children:
3433 George Pomeroy, b. 1792; d. in infancy.
3434 Frances Alsop Pomeroy, b. 1793. +
3435 Caroline Pomeroy, b. 1795; d. 1875; unm.
3436 Samuel Pomeroy, b. 17%; d. in infancy.
3437 John Palgrave Pomeroy, b. 1797; d. in 1812.
3438 Mary Russell Pomeroy, b. 1800; m. Judge Thomas Irvin of Vir-
ginia; practiced law in Lancaster, Ohio; he d. in Boston; she d.
in 1876, leaving a dau., name unknown, who is said to have m.
L Chapman.
3439 Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, b. 1802. +
3440 Clara Alsop Pomeroy, b. 1804. +
3441 Charles Richard Pomeroy, b. 1806. +
3442 John Pomeroy, d. in infancy.
3443 Anne Bulfinch Storer Pomeroy, b. 1811 ; d. 1846; unm.
1485 MARY WYLLYS POMEROY, (Eleaser, Benjamin, Joseph,
Medad, Eltweed), h. Nov. 18, 1767, in Hebron, Conn.; m. (1)
Nov. 18, 1797, Richard Alsop, b. Jan. 23, 1761, d. Aug. 20. 1815;
she m. (2) Hon. Samuel W. Dana; she d. 1855.
yth gen. Children by ist marriage:
3444 Frances Alsop. 3445 Richard Alsop.
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3446 Caroline Alsop, m. F. J. Oliver of Boston.
8th gen. Children of Caroline and F, J. Oliver, (3446):
3447 Frank Oliver, d. unm.
3448 Mary Alsop Oliver, m. Joseph Alsop.
3449 Susan Alsop Oliver, m. Charles W. Dabney.
1515 MARY ANN POMEROY. {Josiah, Benjamin, Joseph, Medad,
Eltweed), bp. Nov. 28, 1790; m. Rev. John Thompson Russell
of Virginia, Pastor for many years of the First Presbyterian
Church of Newark, N. J.
7th gen. Children:
3450 Elijah Russell. 3452 Washington Russell.
3451 George Russell. 3453 Joshua Russell.
3454 Mary Ann Russell, m. Rev. Richmond Mclnnis of Alabama, an
editor; she d. a widow.
1516 BARRE GORE POMEROY, (Josiah, Benjamin, Joseph, Medad,
Eltweed), bp. Nov. 28, 1790; m. Margaret of Boston; he
sailed as supercargo, and was lost at sea, leaving a widow and
children. Res., Boston.
yth gen. Children:
3455 Mary Jane Pomeroy, d. unm.
3456 John Pomeroy, m. Ann
3457 James Pomeroy, m. Qarissa +
1517 RALPH VVHEELOCK POMEROY, (Josiah, Benjamin, Joseph,
Medad, Eltweed), b. Jan. 12, 1792, in Hebron, Conn.; m. July 31,
1813, at Philadelphia, Pa., Mary Starr; he d. Sept. 30, 1844. Re-
sided in Philadelphia.
ph gen. Children:
3458 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. July 13, 1815. +
3459 Caroline Pomeroy, b. Aug. 15, 1817. +
3460 Ralph Wheelock Pomeroy, b. 1821. +
3461 George Wheelock Pomeroy, b. May 22, 1823. +
3462 Byron Pomeroy, b. Sept. 20, 1825. +
3463 John Lenox Pomeroy, b. Oct. 21, 1827; m. April 27, 1854,
Annie Kirk; he d. Dec. 21, 1860.
3464 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. Feb. 14, 1830. +
1575 ELEAZER POMEROY, (Elihu, Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Dec. 13, 1776; m. June 10, 1805, Elois (Zoe) Cornwall,
b. Feb. 22, 1782; he d. about 1835.
yth gen. Children:
3465 Abigail Wheelock Pomeroy, b. April 10, 1806. +
3466 Ursula Pomeroy, b. May 6, 1808.
3467 Hannah M. Pomeroy, b. Aug. 20, 1810.
3468 Elois Anna Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1813. +
3469 Laura Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1813; d. April 6, 1813; (twin with
Elois Anna).
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3470 Eunice B. Pomeroy, b. April 22, 1815; m. April 24, 1836, Ira I.
Fenn, b. 1779, d. Jan. 3, 1873; she d. Aug. 24, 1837; he m. (2)
Miss Dudley. No children.
3471 Wheelock Pomeroy, b. ; d. young.
1576 ABIGAIL POMEROY, (Elihu, Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. May 17, 1779; m. Feb. 10, 1799, Josiah Dwight Graves,
b. Dec. 30, 1722, d. March, 1859; she d. Oct. 1857.
ph gen. Children:
3472 Lydia Barber Graves, b. Oct. 25, 1800; m. (1) Feb. 23, 1823,
Asahel S. Qark, b. May 31, 1797, d. Oct. 22, 1838; she m. (2)
May 19, 1842, Lawrence Weber, b. June 28, 1801, d. June 2,
1883; she d. Dec. 18, 1885. +
3473 Mary Ann Graves, b. Feb. 4, 1804; m. April 9, 1827, George
Holland; she d. in June, 1840.
3474 Abigail W. Graves, b. Feb. 14, 1806; m. April 1, 1829, Ira Cook;
she d. Feb. 7, 1886. +
3475 Elihu Pomeroy Graves, b. Jan. 20, 1808, Belchertown, Mass.: m.
Oct. 22, 1833, Clarissa A. Holland, b. Xov. 5, 1812, Belchertown, d.
Jan. 2, 1885, dau. of Luther Holland; he d. Sept., 1875. Res.,
Suspension Bridge, N. Y. +
3476 Penelope Graves, b. Sept. 14, 1810; m. Sept., 1831, Ashby Hol-
land; she d. Oct. 24, 1839. +
3477 Rev. Nathaniel Dwight Graves, b. Jan. 24, 1814; m. Sept. 2,
1845, Cornelia H. Bradish, dau. of Clark Bradish of Floyd, N. Y.
After graduation Rev. Nathaniel Dwight Graves spent one year
at Lane Theological Seminary and two years at Auburn Seminary,
graduating in July, 1845. He was licensed to preach by the Buf-
falo Presbytery, ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian
church at New York Mills in January, 1846. In 1886 he moved
to Marshall, Iowa, where he retired from pastoral work, preaching
occasionally, however.
3478 Hannah Graves, b. March 4, 1816; d. March 18, 1836.
3479 Margaret A. Graves, b. March 14, 1818; m. 1839, Selim Sears.
3480 Oliver T. Graves, b. April 19, 1823 ; m. Dec, 1845, Melissa Nor-
ton; d. April 25, 1884.
3481 Ursula Pomeroy Graves, b. Aug. 28, 1825; m. Nov. 18, 1853,
Amos Hubbard; she d. in 1870.
8th gen. Children of Lydia B, and Asahel S, Clark, (3472):
3482 Emily S. Clark, b. March 31, 1825; m. Nov. 12, 1845, John
Sheldon Frost; d. March 31, 1897, West Mentor, Ohio.
3483 Frederick A. Clark, b. Oct. 13, 1826; m. Jan. 1, 1850, Corinna
Fox; d. Oct. 10, 1906, Springville, N. Y.
3484 Roderick Clark, b. May 10, 1827; m. Dec. 10, 1850, Mary Ryall;
d. Dec. 17, 1875, Marseilles, 111.
3485 Abigail B. Clark, b. Feb. 5, 1829 ; m. Horatio Hurd ; d. Oct. 28,
1844.
3486 Jane Clark, b. Feb. 16, 1831; m. Jeremiah Hufstader; d. Oct
28, 1854, Springville, N. Y.
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3487 Clarissa Clark, b. Feb. 17, 1835; m. Nov. 4, 1853, Lyman Col-
man Graves; d. Dec. 22, 1892, Chicago, 111.
3488 Luaus A. Clark, b. Sept. 27, 1837; m. Oct. 19, 1858, Grace
Carson, b. Oct. 19, 1837, d. Feb. 22, 1894; he d. Nov. 16, 1865,
Marseilles, 111.
Children of Lydia B. and (2d marriage) Lawrence Weber, (3472) :
3489 James Birney Weber, b. March 31, 1843; m. Jan. 1, 1864, Persis
Amelia Warner, b. July 8, 1841, d. Feb. 7, 1885 ; he m. (2) April
14, 1886, Inez Louisa Ellis.
3490 Lydia Fannie Weber, b. Dec. 31, 1844; m. Sept. 2, 1869, Charles
J. Freese, b. April 13, 1845.
3491 Arthur Weber, b. June 17, 1846 ; d. Jan. 20, 1867.
Children of Abigail W, and Ira Cock, (3474):
3492 Hannah Cook, b. June 22, 1831, at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; m. Dec.
14, 1858, John E. Best, b. Feb. 19, 1822.
3493 Lucy Childs Cook, b. Dec. 28, 1832; d. Jan. 5, 1847.
3494 Abigail Pomeroy Cook, b. Dec. 11, 1834; d. Nov. 6, 1835.
3495 Abigail Pomeroy Cook, b, June 2, 1837; m. Jan. 24, 1861, Cyrus
Williams Pomeroy (3506), son of Benjamin Pomeroy and Jerusha
Williams, b. April 2, 1833, at Marseilles, 111.
3496 Ira Josiah Cook, b. May 10, 1841, at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; m.
1872, Martha Wetmore, b. Sept. 12, 1856.
3497 OzRE AuRELiA Cook, b. Oct. 23, 1844 ; d. April 19, 1847.
Children of Elihu P. and Clarissa A, Graves, (3475):
3497.1 Abigail Pomeroy Graves, b. Oct. 8, 1836; d. Oct. 16, 1836.
3497.2 Luther Holland Graves, b. Jan. 18, 1838; m. June 21, 1859, Lucy
Church Adams; he d. July 1, 1862, Carter's Landing, Va. Mili-
tary service in the Civil War; on detail duty with Gen. McClellan's
body guard.
3497.3 Francis Pomeroy Graves, b. July 12, 1840; d. Feb. 20, 1859.
3497.4 Sarah J. Graves, b. Aug. 30, 1842 ; d. Aug. 24, 1854.
3497.5 Edwin Pomeroy Graves, b. May 12, 1846; d. Aug. 25, 1846.
3497.6 Edward Pomeroy Graves, b. May 12, 1846, (twin with Edwin) ;
d. Sept. 13, 1846.
3497.7 Lucy Pomeroy Gr.\ves, b, Sept. 8, 1847; d. Nov. 16, 1852.
3497.8 Charles Pomeroy Graves, b. Sept. 4, 1852 ; m. Oct. 26, 1875, Emma
Christine Utz. Res., Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Child of Penelope and Ashby Holland, (3476):
3498 Mary Ann Holland, m. Charles P. Graves.
1578 BENJAMIN POMEROY, (Elihu, Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Eli-
weed), b. March 27, 1787, Hebron, Conn.; m. Jan. 1, 1818, Jerusha
Williams, b. Aug. 10, 1793, North Stonington, Conn., d. Dec. 24,
1883, Southport, Conn.; he d. Sept. 20, 1855, Stonington, Conn.
Res., Stonington.
7th gen. Children:
3499 Hon. Benjamin Pomeroy, b. Nov. 2, 1818. +
3500 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. May 24, 1820. +
3501 Isaac Pomeroy, b. Feb. 16, 1823. +
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3502 Elihu Pomeroy, b. (twin with Isaac), Feb. 16, 1823; d. Sept.
8, 1824.
3503 Lydia Barber Pomeroy, b. Aug. 4, 1825. +
3504 Phebe Williams Pomeroy, b. May 4, 1828; d. Nov. 5, 1846; unm.
3505 Cyrus Pomeroy, b. May 14. 1831 ; d. April 30, 1832.
3506 Cyrus Williams Pomeroy, b. April 2, 1833. +
3507 Rebekah Wheeler Pomeroy. b. Nov. 20, 1835. (Continued.)
3508 Frank Rogers Pomeroy, b. June 11, 1838; d. July 8, 1831.
3509 Anna Grosvenor Pomeroy, b. Nov. 28, 1840. +
1579 STEPHEN BARBER POMEROY, (Elihu, Benjamin, Joseph,
Medad, Eltweed), b. 1789. in Hebron, Conn.; m. Nov. 5, 1818,
Sarah Dimmock, b. June 23, 1793, at South Coventry, Conn., d.
Jan. 12, 1864, dau. of Capt. Daniel Dimmock and Annie Wright;
he d. at Bolton, Conn., April 19, 1869.
7th gen. Children, all b. in Norwich, N, Y.:
3510 Sarah Pomeroy, b. 1822. +
3511 Frederick Pomeroy, b. about 1824; m. Mollie Palmer; he d. May
11, 1861, in Greenfield, Ulster Co., N. Y. ; s. p.
3512 Stephen Franklin Pomeroy, b. May 17, 1825. +
3513 Mary Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. about 1834; m. Aug. 9, 1854, Rufus
Qark, son of Milton and Anna Clark; he was reputed to be a
millionaire; lived in Denver, Colo., and d. Aug. 9, 1854; she d. s. p.
Jan. 4, 1856.
3514 John Sessions Pomeroy, b. 1837; m. June 10, 1862, Emily White,
b. in 1843, in Brownhelm, Lorain county, Ohio, dau. of Roswell
White and Elizabeth Curtis (Stowell) Bailey of Windsor Locks,
Conn. Mr. White was a hotel keeper at Windsor Locks, Conn.,
and at Greenfield and Port Jarvis, N. Y. He d. March 11, 1863;
she went to East Haddam, Conn., from Goodspeeds Landing, 1903.
1580 SAMUEL POMEROY, (Elihu, Benjamin, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Feb. 17, 1793; m. June 15, 1817, Mary Coe, b. Jan. 12,
1796, dau. of Capt. Timothy Coe of West Hartland, Conn. They
removed to Middle Granville, thence to Lacon, Marshall county,
111., in June, 1837.
yth gen. Children, b, in Middle Granville, Mass.:
3515 Augustus Dwight Pomeroy, b. Nov. 14, 1819. +
3516 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. March 11, 1821. +
3517 Elijah Wheelock Pomeroy, b. March 2, 1823; d. 1843.
3518 Eleazer L. Pomeroy, b. Oct. 19, 1825. +
3519 Samuel Barber Pomeroy, b. April 21, 1828. +
3520 Harriet Cornelia Pomeroy, b. Nov. i22, 1830. +
3521 Elihu Franklin Pomeroy, b. June 7, 1833. +
1581 REV. AUGUSTUS POMEROY, (Elihu, Benjamin, Joseph, Me-
dad, Eltweed), b. Oct. 2, 1795, at Belchertown, Mass.; gr. Wil-
liams College, 1821 ; Andover Theological Seminary ; he was a
Presbyterian clergyman and noted for the good results of his
ministrations in broad fields, including RocWille, Windsor, and
asr f^ixtif (SrtmratUm - HUHaH
Winsted, Conn. ; Fredonia and Groton, N. Y. ; Ashtabula and other
cities in Ohio; his labors in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri were
also productive. He was instrumental in establishing the National
Home Missionary Society; and in 1832 he established the Female
Seminary at Chillicothe, Ohio. He was noted throughout his
ministerial life as a powerful revival preacher and great worker.
He m. (1) in 1822, Susan Lincoln, (who had previously m.
John Merwin and William Gushing) of Gallipolis, Ohio; she was
b. in 1791, d. Sept. 17, 1844, dau. of Joseph Lincoln and Frances
Leavens; he m. (2) Oct., 1845, Margaret Grawford (widow of
Samuel Hawley), b. Oct. 2, 1806, at Saratoga, N. Y.; he d.
Feb. 2, 1875.
/th gen. Children by ist zvife:
3522 Henry Martyn Pomeroy, b. April 27, 1829. +
3523 ^Thomas Sanford Pomeroy, b. Aug. 9, 1831. H-
3524 * Susan Lincoln Pomeroy, b. Nov. 13, 1835. +
1582 NATHANIEL POMEROY, {Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Me-
dad, Eltweed), b. Nov. 29, 1758, at Suffield, Gonn.; m. 1781, Mar-
tha Spencer; he d. May 17, 1831.
^th gen. Children:
3525 Samuel Pomeroy, b. 1782; m. +
3526 Betsey Pomeroy, b. March 17, 1783 ; d. June 25, 1788.
3527 Thaddeus Pomeroy, b. Jan. 28, 1786. +
i52&< Nathaniel Pomeroy, b. Oct 22, 1787. H-
3529 Martha Pomeroy, b. about 1789; m. Warren Smith.
3530 Henrietta Pomeroy, b. 1801. +
1583 AMOS POMEROY, (Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Oct. 19, 1760, at Suffield, Gonn.; m. June 7, 1787, Re-
becca Spencer, who d. March 27, 1833.
7//1 gen. Children, b, at Suffield:
3531 Amos Pomeroy, b. Feb. 12, 1788; m. Jan. 2, 1819, Harriet Ghapin;
had dau. who m. Henry Porter; s. p.
3532 Rebecca Pomeroy, b. Jan. 3, 1790. H-
3533 Abigail Pomeroy, b. Jan. 2, 1792; unm.
3534 Thomas Pomeroy, b. Jan. 6, 1794; settled at Dayton, Ohio.
3535 George Pomeroy, b. Nov. 3, 1795; d. April 25, 1796.
3536 George Pomeroy, b. May 8, 1797. +
3537 Harriet Palmer Pomeroy, b. March 27, 1799. +
3538 Ghloe Pomeroy, b. Sept. 7, 1802. H-
3539 Alexander Pomeroy, b. Nov. 19, 1806. +
1585 SUSANNA POMEROY, {Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad,
Eltweed), b. March 13, 1765, at Suffield, Gonn.; m. there, Dec. 17,
1784, Simeon Remington, b. Jan. 31, 1762, at Suffield, son of
Simeon Remington and Mary Bush, (Ebenezer Bush and Miriam
Noble) ; he is of the line of Remington arms fame, and is per-
haps the Simeon Remington who joined the Revolution from Suf-
field, July 18, 1780, (Benjamin, John, Thomas, John Remington).
(Snirabisg of tlft Ponurog J^amilg 35B
7th gen. Children:
3540 Alpheus Remington, b. Oct. 3, 1785; m. July 4, 1813, Mary
Pierce, "i"
3541 Susanna Remington, b. April 13, 1788.
3542 Simeon Remington, b. Sept. 10, 1791.
8th gen. Children of Alpheus and Mary Remington, (3540):
3543 LucENA Remington, b. May 4, 1814.
3544 Louisa Remington, (twin with Lucena), b. May 4, 1814.
1588 ANNA POMEROY, (Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Dec. 27, 1770, at Suffield; m. July 26, 1792, Carlos King;
she d. Sept. 11, 1748.
yth gen. Child:
3545 Experience King, b. Nov. 8, 1795, at Suffield; d. March 15, 1859.
1589 ALEXANDER POMEROY, (Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Me-
dad, Eltweed), h. Jan. 13, 1773, at Suffield; m. March 4, 1802,
Harriet Griswold; he d. April 17, 1809.
7th gen. Child:
3546 Alexander Pomeroy, b. at Suffield.
1590 PHINEAS POMEROY, (Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad,
Eltweed), b. 1774, in Suffield, Conn.; m. Nov. 20, 1797, Susanna
Clark, b. 1777, d. Dec. 9, 1848 ; he d. June, 1818.
7/A gen. Children, b. StiMeld, Conn. (Not in order of birtlis.):
3547 Gamaliel Pomeroy, b. May 2, 1798; settled in Ohio.
3548 Phineas Pomeroy, b. Sept., 1802. +
3549 Henry Pomeroy, b. Feb. 10, 1812. +
3550 Mary Pomeroy, b. Feb. 2, 1814. +
3551 Maria Pomeroy, m. Horton Goldsmith.
3552 Oliver Pomeroy, b. Feb. 13, 1818. +
3553 Susan Pomeroy, unm.
3554 Elizabeth Pomeroy, unm.
1591 CHLOE pomeroy, (Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Bit-
weed), b. Feb. 20, 1775, Suffield, Conn.; m. Dec. 31, 1789, Thad-
deus Spencer, who d. Dec. 30, 1825; she m. (2) Rufus Granger
(his second wife), b. Oct. 21, 1766, Suffield, Conn., d. there Nov.
1, 1837, son of Zadock Granger; she d. Jan. 10, 1853. Farmer.
Res., Suffield.
yth gen. Children by 2d marriage:
3556 Rufus Granger, b. July 9, 1791; m. Abigail Kendall; d. March
19, 1866.
3557 Gamaliel Granger, b. Oct. 18, 1792; m. Arabella King; d. Oct.
30, 1825. ;.
3558 Orra Granger, b. Oct. 15, 1794; m. (1) Horace Warner; m. (2)
Col. Goodwin; s. p.; d. Nov. 22, 1888. Res., Havana, N. Y.
3559 JosEPHus Granger, b. Dec. 12, 1796; m. Jane Haight; d. 1850.
Merchant in New York City.
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3560 Reuben Granger, b. July 4, 1798; m. Aug. 17, 1833, Mrs. Ara-
bella (King) Granger, wid. of Gamaliel; d. Jan. 11, 1872, at Ann
Arbor, Mich. Instructor at Ann Arbor.
3561 Zadock Granger, b. Jan. 21, 1800; d. Dec. 2, 1818.
3562 Martha Granger, b. Jan. 21, 1800; m. James Gillett; d. March
13, 1841.
3563 Belinda Granger, b. Oct. 20, 1802; m. Arnold Woodworth; d.
Sept. 24, 1869.
3564 Benjamin Granger, b. April 4, 1804; m. Sarah ; d. Aug.
14, 1839. Merchant. Lived and died in Georgia.
3565 Sarah Granger, b. March 2, 1806; m. Squire M. Mason; d. March
26, 1872.
3566 Dan King Granger, b. March 6, 1808; m. Rachel Hadden; d.
May 13, 1881.
1611 JOHN SPENCER POMEROY, (John, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad,
Eltweed), b. Aug. 23, 1767, Windsor, Conn.; m. March 15, 1796,
Elizabeth Smith, b. Aug. 13, 1779, d. May 26, 1847; he d. Aug.
29. 1819.
yth gen. Children:
3567 John Spencer Pomeroy, b. Jan. 26, 1797. +
3568 Son Pomeroy, b. Feb. 18, 1798; d. soon.
3569 Elizabeth Pomeroy, b. Dec. 27, 1798; m. (1) Jan. 21, 1847,
Shadrack Trumbull; m, (2) May 23, 1854, Henry Albro; she d.
s. p. March 31, 1876.
3570 Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. July 19, 1800, +
3571 Chloe Pomeroy, b. March 20, 1803. +
3572 Cyrus Pomeroy, b. March 26, 1804. +
3573 Lucy Pomeroy, b. Nov. 30, 1805 ; m. and had six children ; d. 1890.
3574 Zadoc Pomeroy, b. Dec. 29, 1807; m. and had three children; d.
March 3, 1895.
3575 Hannah Pomeroy, b. Nov. 12, 1809.
3576 Parmelia Pomeroy, b. Jan. 20. 1811; m. Nov. 28, 1839, Joel
Austin.
3577 William Pomeroy; b. Aug. 31, 1812.
3578 Daniel Pomeroy, b. Sept. 29, 1815; m. Sept. 12, 1836, Rebecca
Persignal Holliday, b. July, 1817, d. Newton, Mass. During the
Civil War she devoted herself as a nurse to sick and wounded
soldiers in hospitals at Washington and other places, by which
she gained their gratitude.
3579 Joseph Pomeroy, b. Sept. 17, 1816; m. ; d. in Kansas.
3580 Olive Pomeroy, b. Dec. 11, 1818. H-
3581 Fanny Pomeroy, b. March 7, 1820; d. at Castleton, Vt, 1889;
unm.
1614 ZADOC POMEROY, (John, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. July 1, 1774, at Suffield, Conn.; m. Aug. 18, 1796, Hannah
Farrington, d. at Dedham, Feb. 6, 1775; he d. July 3, 1804.
<Sn»abi9g of ttft Pomnrotf J^atnUg 3fi0
yth gen. Children, b. at Boston, Mass,:
3582 Maria Pomeroy, b. Aug. 25, 1797.
3583 Arabella Pomeroy, b. Feb. 16, 1799.
3584 George Washington Pomeroy, b. Dec. 12, 1800.
1617 JOSEPH POMEROY, {Daniel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), h. Aug. 7, 1769; m. Nov. 19, 1804, Lydia Merriman.
ph gen. Children:
3585 Daniel Pomeroy, b. Dec. 12, 1805 ; d. 1806.
3586 Jesse Pomeroy, b. Dec. 16, 1807.
3587 Mary Pomeroy, b. March 15, 1810; d. Sept. 1, 1811.
3588 LvDiA Pomeroy, b. April 30, 1812.
3589 Joseph Pomeroy, b. May 17, 1814.
3590 Julia Pomeroy, b. July 18, 1816; m. Sept. 17, 1843, Joseph Wells.
3591 Edward Pomeroy, b. May 28, 1818.
3592 William Merriman Pomeroy, b. March 14, 1820.
3593 Daniel Pomeroy, b. March 13, 1823; m. Abby Gage; he d. 1872.
3594 Hannah Pomeroy, b. Oct. 19, 1825.
1822 ASA POMEROY, (Asa, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b.
Nov. 15, 1774; m. Oct. 17, 1799, Jerusha Smith, b. 1781, d. May
16, 1840; he m. (2) Mrs. Mather; he d. March 13, 1846.
Jth gen. Children:
3595 Chauncey Pomeroy, b. May 3, 1801. +
3596 Asa E. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 8, 1803. +
3597 Erastus Pomeroy, b. Dec. 12, 1806. +
3598 Cornelia Pomeroy, b. Dec. 18, 1808. +
3599 Sophia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 9, 1811. +
3600 Jerusha Pomeroy, b. April 9, 1812; m. 1851, Washington J.
Wright; she d. Nov. 20, 1873.
3601 Sylvester Pomeroy, b. Feb. 10, 1815. +
3602 Henry Pomeroy, b. Sept. 10, 1817.
1623 HULDAH pomeroy, {Asa, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Nov. 29, 1776; m. June 26, 1800, Joshua Leavitt, b.
Sept. 22, 1775 ; she d. Feb. 4, 1858.
7/A gen. Children:
3603 Luther Leavitt, b. Jan. 9, 1804; d. Oct. 28, 1810.
3604 Mary Ann Leavitt.
1627 ISRAEL POMEROY, {Asa, Nathaniel, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed).
b. May 22, 1786, in Suffield, Mass.; m. 1815, Lydia Lewis, dau. of
Mary Phelps Lewis.
Jth gen. Children:
3605 Calvin Pomeroy, b. July 19, 1816; m. Harriet E. Foster of Ala-
bama; he d. Aug. 12, 1889, Alabama.
3606 William Pomeroy, b. March 9, 1818; m. Mary G. Dickinson of
Russell, Mass.; he d. April 22, 1901, Russell.
3607 Mary Pomeroy, b. April 14, 1820, Suffield; she was a beautiful
and self-sacrificing character; she devoted the best years of her
life to the care of the sick and afflicted without compensation; d.
Feb. 11, 1907, Suffield; unm.
3608 Warren Lewis Pomeroy, b. Aug. 31, 1822, Suffield; he went to
North Carolina while young, accumulated property, and lost all
through the disasters of the rebellion. He came North after the
war for a short time, but returned to the South and trace of him
has been lost.
3609 Lucy Pomeroy, b. OcL 7, 1824, Suffield. +
1628 NATHANIEL POMEROY, (Noah, Noah, Joseph, Medad, ElU
weed), b. 1755 in Hartford county, Conn.; m. in 1778, Roxalinda
Kent, b. about 1756, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Kent; removed
with a small colony from Tolland county, Conn., to Columbia
county, N. Y., about 1795, and settled among the Indians, who
then occupied the Green River country; he d. there; she m. (2)
John Wall; she d. in 1828.
7th gen. Children:
3610 Roxalinda Pomeroy, b. March 3, 1779. +
3611 John Seymour Pomeroy, b. Nov. 17, 1782. +
3612 Silas Pomeroy, b. April 26, 1785. +
1630 ABIGAIL POMEROY, (Eliakim, Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. May 7, 1761, in Suiiield; m. July 7, 1797, Samuel Gaines.
yth gen. Child:
3613 Roderick Gaines (legally adopted by his grandfather, Eliakim
Pomeroy, and given his name, Roderick Eliakim Pomeroy), b.
July 7, 1798. +
1831 ANNA POMEROY, (Eliakim, Noah, Joseph, Medad, Elhveed),
b. March 8, 1763, in Suffield ; m. at New Marlborough, Mass., Oct.
10, 1785, Nehemiali Jones, b. June 17, 1760, d. Dec. 19, 1838, son
of Ebenezer Jones; she d. Oct. 8, 1844.
^th gen. Children:
3614 Amanda Jones, b. 1786; m. April 11, 1811, Clark Wood; she d.
April 30, 1855.
3615 Oren Jones, b. 1787; d. March, 1789.
3616 Pomeroy Jones, b. Dec. 30, 1789, Suffield; m. Feb. 11, 1813, Me-
hitable Moore. He held the office of Justice of the Peace in
Oneida county, N. Y., seven years by appointment of the Council,
and twenty by election; he was county judge ten years; and rep-
resented Oneida county in the New York Assembly, 1834-1836;
he was elected the first President of the Oneida County Agricul-
tural Society. In 1850, he wrote and published "Aimals and
Recollections of Oneida County," 900 pp. He d. July 30, 1884.
3617 Adeline Jones, b. April 25, 1800; m. May 6, 1819, Richard Whit-
ney; she d. May 14, 1900, aged 100 years and 19 days.
8th gen. Child of Pomeroy and Mchitable Jones, (3616) :
3618 M. M. Jones, b. Utica, N. Y.
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1833 CAPT. EPAPHRAS POMEROY, (Eliakim, Noah, Joseph. Me-
dad, Eltweed), b. Sept. 1, 1765, in Suffield, Conn.; m. Sept. 2, 1789,
Mercy Allen; she d. May 24, 1829; he d. June 25, 1808.
7th gen. Children:
3619 Eliakim Pomeroy, b. Nov. 20, 1790; m. Lucy Gibbons, dau. of
Eli (Peter) ; d. at Suffield, Conn.
3620 Charlotte Pomeroy, b. July 20, 1792; m. Elijah Root; settled
at Portland, N. Y.; she d. 1834.
3621 Anna Pomeroy, b. July 18, 1794, in Suffield; m. May, 1718, at
Feeding Hills, Daniel King.
3622 Alexander Allen Pomeroy, b. March 15, 1796. +
3623 Julia Pomeroy, b. Jan. 27, 1798; m. (1) Hiram Lee, b. 1794. d.
1834, West Granby, Conn.; m. (2) Samuel Gould.
3624 Ralph Pomeroy, b. Jan. 31, 1800; d. May 2, 1800.
3625 Olive Pomeroy, b. May 18, 1802; m. 1827. +
3626 Jonathan Remington Pomeroy, b. May 28. 1804. +
3627 Elmina Pomeroy, b. June 6, 1805 ; m. May, 1827, Robert Camp-
bell of Southwick.
3628 Oliver Cromwell Pomeroy, b. Jan. 2, 1807. +
1835 SARAH POMEROY, (Eliakim, Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Aug. 11, 1770, in Suffield; m. Joseph Blackmer; she d. in Wheat-
land, March 31, 1813; he d. there in 1848, ae. 80 years. He was
a native of Kent, Conn., a descendant of Peregrine White, said
to be the first white child bom in New England; he settled in
Wheatland in 1808. He was concerned with the construction of
the road from Onondaga to Oneida, and when the settlement of
Genesee county began, in 1788-9, the early pioneers were hospitably
entertained in his log house by his wife, this being the sole white
man's residence until the pioneer reached Judge Dean's settlement
in Westmoreland, and Col. Danforth's at Onondaga. Mr. Black-
mer purchased a large farm at what is termed Belcoda, and built
a frame house, later occupied by Mr. P. Rulifson. "He deeded
free gratis from his farm sites for meeting-house and school-house,
and ground for a grave-yard. He was a good neighbor and val-
uable citizen, and followed farming till his death."
7th gen. Children:
i629 TiRZAH Blackmer.
3630 Ephraim Blackmer. 3631 Oliver Blackmer.
3632 Thankful Blackmer, m. Jesse Kinney of Mich.
3633 Daughter Blackmer, m. Jesse Merrill.
1636 REBECCA POMEROY, {Eliakim, Noah, Joseph, Medad, Elt-
weed), b. Dec. 5, 1772, in Suffield; m. about 1791, Daniel Cook:
lived in Rochester, N. Y. ; she d. about 1852.
jth gen. Children, b. at Skaneateles, N. Y.:
3634 Sheldon Cook, b. about 1793; d. at Beaver Dam, Lodge county,
Wis., ae. 75.
3635 Lydia Cook, b. about 1795; d. at the age of 13 years.
3B3 IHxtii ((rttnratUm - Mths^
3636 Enos CbOK, b. about 1797; went to California in "49"; d. at
Rochester, N. Y., about 1850-52.
3637 Ira Cook, b. about 1799; d. San Rafael, Cal., 1878, ae. 80 years.
3638 Seth Cook, b. Nov. 20, 1801; m. March 27, 1826, Mary Sher-
wood, b. April 23, 1806, in Genoa, Cayuga county, N. Y., d. June
5, 1866, dau. of Nathan Sherwood and Lucy Hollister; he d.
March 15, 1875; engaged in farming, and had resided at Elba,
Byron, and Hamlin, N. Y. (Nathan Sherwood served all through
the War of the Revolution, and had three sons, Captain John
Sherwood, Harvey, and Levi, in the war of 1812.) +
3639 Theodosia Cook, b. about 1803; d. in Bergan, N. Y., about 1875.
3640 Mary Cook, b. about 1805; d. in Rochester, N. Y., 1868, ae. 63
years.
8th gen. Children of Seth and Mary Cook, (3638):
3641 James Henry Cook, b. Dec. 27, 1826, at Elba, N. Y.; d. March
16, 1872.
3642 Rebecca Cook, b. Dec. 10, 1831, at Elba, N. Y.; m. Jan. 3, 1859,
Charles T. Bush, b. May 21, 1834, at Clarkson, (now Morton), N.
Y., d. April 1, 1898, son of Jonas T. Bush and Julietta Elliott. +
Qth gen. Children of Rebecca and Charles T. Bush, (3642):
3643 Mary Lillian Bush, b. Nov. 2, 1863, at Morton, N. Y.; d. July
8, 1895.
3644 Seth J. T. Bush, b. Feb. 27, 1869, at Morton, N. Y.
1837 OLIVER POMEROY, {Eliakim, Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Dec. 7, 1774, in Suffield; m. 1793, Polly Day; he d. at Verona,
N. Y., Oct. 9, 1805.
yth gen. Children:
3645 Jonathan Remington Pomeroy, d. young.
3646 Altai Pomeroy. +
3647 Mercy Pomeroy, m. Mr. Bramin.
3648 Mary Pomeroy, d. in 1870.
1638 ACHSA POMEROY, (Eliakim, Noah, Joseph, Medad, Eltweed),
b. Oct. 7, 1777; m. May 1, 1800, Elihu Root, b. 1772, Great Barring-
ton, Mass., d. July 1, 1843, son of James Root (1338) and wife
Nannie Rob, [grandson of Huet Root and wife Experience Pomeroy
(405) ; Huet Root was son of John Root, who was son of Thomas
Roote, who was son of John Roote, b. in Badby, Northamptonshire,
England, Feb. 26, 1608, settled in Farmington, Conn., 1640, and
married Mary Kilbourn about that date]. Achsa Pomeroy Root
d. Dec 28, 1856, Clinton, N. Y., at the home of her son. Prof. Oren
Root
jth gen. Children:
3649 Edwakd Root, b. Oct. 7, 1801 ; d. 1834.
3650 Prof. Oren Root, b. Nov. 1, 1803; m. Aug. 10, 1837, Nancy Whit-
ney Buttrick, granddaughter of Major John Buttrick, who com-
manded the American Minute-Men at Concord bridge, April 19,
(SniralosQ of ttft PfntirroQ Wumiixi 3fi4
1775 ; she d. Feb. 27, 1891 ; he d. May 23, 1885. Professor in Ham-
ilton College. +
3651 Nancy Root, b. May 5, 1805.
3652 Oliver Pomeroy Root, b. May, 1807; m. Philena, dau. of Luke
Hitchcock.
3653 Philander Sheldon Root, b. Oct., 1809; m. Elizabeth Bloodgood;
d. Dec. 30, 1864. +
3654 Erastus ClaUk Root, b. Aug., 1811; m. Miss Weaver; lived at
Vernon, N. Y. ; he d. Jan. 12, 1870.
3655 Abigail Root, b. May, 1813; m. William Pinkney.
3656 Elihu Root, b. Oct., 1815; d. 1826.
3657 HuET Root, b. July, 1817 ; d. June, 1848.
3658 Eliakim Root, b. May 26, 1819; d. Aug. 21, 1873.
8tli gen. Children of Oren and Nancy W. Root, (3650) :
3659 Oren Root, b. May 18, 1838; m. (1) Anna J. Higgins of Water-
ford, N. Y.; m. (2) May 16, 1867, Ida C. Gordon of Columbia, Mo.;
he d. Aug. 26, 1907. He was graduated from Hamilton College;
succeeded his father as Professor of Mathematics, Hamilton Col-
lege. +
3660 Edward Walstein Root, b. July 4, 1841 ; d. Nov. 15, 1870, s. p.
Professor of Chemistry, Hamilton College.
3651 Hon. Elihu Root, b. Feb. 15, 1845; gr. Hamilton College, 1864;
degree of A.M., 1867; gr. Law Department, University of New
York; m. Jan. 8, 1878, Clara Frances Wales, dau. of Salem H.
Wales of New York. Senator Elihu Root held the portfolio of
Secretary of War during the administration of President McKinley,
and the portfoKo of Secretary of State in that of President Roosevelt ;
he retired from the executive branch of the government to take his
seat as Senator from New York in the United States Senate on
March 4, 1909. '
Senator Elihu Root was elected temporary chairman and permanent
chairman of the Republican National Convention at Chicago, 1912,
the most spectacular Presidential convention ever held in the United
States. The "Teddyites'' had threatened gims, violence and blood-
shed if they did not have their own way. All the terrorism was
averted by the force of determined and fair rulings of Senator
Root. +
3662 Oliver Pomeroy Root, b. Nov. 15. 1855; d. Dec. 30, 1864.
Children of Philander S, and Elizabeth Root, (3653):
3663 Louisa B. Root, m. Rev. Samuel Sherrill.
3664 Ruth Dakin Root, m. Rev. Charles Kimball.
3665 Lynott Bloodgood Root, m. Anna Robbins; practiced law in part-
nership with his father, at.Utica, N. Y., and later in New York
City.
9th gen. Child of Oren and (ist wife) Anna /. Root^ (3659):
3666 Edwin Buttrick Root; practicing law in New York City; m. June
7, 1893, Iva Ashton.
3fi5 l^btOi (Srtinratiott - Bttab
Children of Oren and (2d wife) Ida C Root, (3659):
2667 Alice Root, b. March 21, 1868 ; m. Dec. 20, 1900, Thomas F. Nichols.
3668 Walstein Root, b. June 6, 1870; d. Nov., 1909.
3668.1 Oren Root, b. June 21, 1873; m. Nov. 5, 1908, Ada de Acosta.
3668.2 Laura Root, b. Nov. 16, 1887; m. Oct. 10, 1908, Stanley Elliott
Gilbert.
Children of Elihu and Clara F, Root, (3661):
3668.3 Edith Root, b. Dec. 1, 1878; m. Nov. 27, 1907, Ulysses S. Grant,
only son of Major-General Frederick Dent Grant, U. S. A., (re-
cently deceased), and wife Ida M. Honore, and grandson of Presi-
dent Ulysses S. Grant. +
3668.4 Elihu Root, b. May 7, 1881; m. Dec. 7, 1907, Alida Stryker, dau.
of Dr. Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, President of Hamilton Col-
lege. +
3668.5 Edward Wales Root, b. July 23, 1884.
loth gen. Child of Edith and Ulysses S. Grant, (3668.3):
3668.6 Edith Grant, b. Sept. 9, 1908.
Child of Elihu and Alida Root, (3668.4):
3668.7 Elizabeth Root, b. Sept. 14, 1910.
(From the "American Review of Reviews" Jan,, 1909):
"Elihu Root: World Statesman. The greatest intellectual force in public
life in America is the mind of Elihu Root. That is true today; it has been
most of the time for nine years; it is likely to be true for years to come. His
has been the master mind for two administrations, McKinley*s and Roosevelt's.
It will be the same in the administration of Mr. Taft. Mr. Root is leaving the
executive branch of the government to take his seat in the Senate of the United
States on March 4. * * ♦ The President declared that, *Elihu Root is the
greatest man I have known in our government service. I will go further: He
is the greatest man that has appeared in the public life of any country, in any
position, on either side of the ocean in this day and generation.* ♦ * *.
"But it is impossible to thus adequately picture him. To write a list of the
things he has done, of the achievements upon which his mind has worked either
in dominant or influential fashion, would be to write the history of the American
Government for ten years. It was once said of him that the people of the
United States were the luckiest clients a lawyer ever had; because they had for
a bagatelle of $10,000 a year enjoyed the services of a million-dollar lawyer.
The public naturally thinks of this million-dollar lawyer, this leader of the
American bar, as Secretary of War, or Secretary of State, dealing successfully
with the questions which arise in those departments; but the truth is much wider.
"Nothing of first-class importance has been done by the executive branch
of the American Government for nine years unless it has first received, in greater
or less degree, the impress of Mr. Root's intellectual power. • ♦ ♦ He solves
problems of government half through sheer love of intellectual conquest, half
through a sort of intuitive conscience that tells him it is his duty to do all he
can for the government and the country.
"It seems that there is almost something epic about the rise of this man.
It is one of the songs to be found ages hence in our national sagas. Ten years
ago his name was not known to 5.000 men outside the city of New York. Today
his fame extends throughout the world. There is not a cabinet, not a chancel-
lerie, nor a council chamber anywhere in which he is not often mentioned as
the dominant mind in the American Government, as the force all other powers
must reckon with in their relations with Washington. This is an epic story be-
cause the man has reached this place among the world's few elect through in-
tellectual power and nothing else. He lifted the War Department out of the
clumsy inefficiency and cross purposes into which it had fallen. When he en-
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tcred the department just after the Spanish war, disorder reigned; the people
had lost confidence in that branch of the administration. He solved the prob-
lem and applied the remedy. And the President earnestly entreated Mr. Root
to perform a like work of reorganization for the Navy Department, which
needed regeneration quite as badly as did the War Department, and he has con-
sented to give aid and counsel up to the limit of his strength.
"It was he who took hold of the difficult problem of creating a nation out
of Cuba, establishing a government there and training men to run it and to
prepare it for standing alone. He made Cuba, and he wrote what is known in
history as the Piatt Amendment, upon which to this day are based the relations
of Cuba to the United States. Cuba is one monument to the constructive genius
of Mr. Root. The Philippines are another. In those days the problem of the
Philippines was heavy enough to crush an ordinary man. Mr. Root carried it
along with many other things almost alone.
"During the last three and a half years the public has known Mr. Root as
Secretary of State. In Washington he has been looked upon as the all-around
counselor of the President, incidentally presiding over the State Department.
Perhaps the most brilliant achievement in diplomacy is the pact of peace with
Japan, an understanding between the two governments which removes the least
remaining source of disagreement between them. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Japanese Gov-
ernment has virtually prohibited all emigration of coolies or workmen to the
United States, thanks to the diplomacy of Mr. Root.
"Mr. Root has settled many long-standing questions between the United
States and Canada. His visit to South and Central America, is assurance to all
those countries that the big United States was their friend, seeking nothing in
selfishness, but willing to do much in helpfulness, has brought on a new era
in the relations between our southern neighbors and ourselves. Secretary Root
has done much to make The Hague Conference a reality instead of a beautiful
dream, but the best practical application of The Hague principle is found in his
creation of a Central American court for preservation of peace between the
states of that region. * * * And not to speak of countless minor achieve-
ments, he has reorganized the Diplomatic and Consular service, taken politics
out of it, and put it upon a basis of merit and efficiency.
"Mr. Root leaves the State Department to the great regret of President-
elect Taft. But he will enter the Senate with greater prestige than any new
member ever before enjoyed. It is within reason to say that during the next ten
or twelve years, if his life be spared. Elihu Root will be the most potent man
in the Government, next to the occupant of the White House, as he has been
for the ten years past."
1642 JONATHAN REMINGTON POMEROY, (Jonathan, Noah,
Joseph, Medad, Eltweed), b. May 31, 1773, in Suffield, Conn.; m.
May 12, 1796, Tirzah King, b. Dec. 1, 1775, Suffield, Conn., dau.
of Pelatiah King and Elizabeth Archer; he d. 1803.
yth gen. Children:
3669 Cynthia Pomeroy, b. Sept. 15, 1800.
3670 James Pomeroy, b. 1801; d. about 1840; unm.
3671 Charles Pomeroy, b. 1803; m. May 6, 1840, Miss Warner.
1656 IRA POMEROY, {Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
June 3, 1759, Southampton, Mass.; m. in 1787, Experience Pome-
roy, b. March 5, 1768, dau. of Ebenezer Pomeroy and Experience
Clark; she d. Sept. 30, 1849, South Butler, N. Y. They settled at
Otisco, N. Y., and both are buried there.
yth gen. Children:
3672 Sophia Pomeroy, b. 1789; d. 1803.
3er i^ixtlf <Srt»ration - (Sabb
3673 Aruah Pomeroy, b. 1791; m. Richard Pomeroy (2008), b. Jan.
10, 1789, son of Gen. Timothy Pomeroy and second wife Anna
Burt. -I-
3674 Minerva Pomeroy, b. 1793. +
3675 Ira Pomeroy, b. 1796. +
3676 Samuel Pomeroy, b. 1800; d. 1802.
3677 DoRus Pomeroy, b. 1803; m. Parthena Bostwick, b. 1807, dau.
of Oliver Bostwick and Hannah Goodwin of Onondaga Valley;
he d. ; she m. (2) Lewis Baker.
3678 Sophia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 28, 1808, Otisco, N. Y. H-
1657 NANCY POMEROY, (Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. June 3, 1766; m. June 18, 1785, Dea. Roswell Strong, b. Feb.
26, 1761, Windsor, Conn., d. March 22, 1837; she d. Oct. 13, 1830.
He was Deacon for forty years in the Congregational Church.
ytli gen. Children:
3679 Bela Strong, b. Feb. 18, 1786; m. 1808, Sarah Clapp, dau. of
Roger Clapp and Sarah Kellogg; he was accidentally killed on the
road to Clapp's mill, June 18, 1819; she m. (2) Aaron Parsons;
she d. Sept. 11, 1848. +
3680 Louisa Strong, b. May 14, 1788; m. in 1811, Russell Clapp, son
of Roger Clapp and Sarah Kellogg of Liberty, Ohio; she d. at
Liberty, April 9, 1855. +
3681 Deacon Theodore Strong, b. Aug. 6, 1791; m. Feb. 7, 1820,
Juliana Cleveland, b. Dec. 27, 1797, d. Dec. 7, 1868, dau. of Dea.
Nehemiah Cleveland and Hannah Parsons; he d. March 13,
1842. +
3682 Gratia Strong, b. Jan. 19, 1794; m. April 23, 1822, George Skin-
ner, son of Ebenezer Skinner and Lydia Mason; she d. June 1,
1845. +
3683 Abigail Strong, b. July 1, 1796; unm.
3684 Nancy R. Strong, b. Sept. 22, 1798; d. Oct. 31, 1802.
3685 Orilla Strong, b. Jan. 17, 1801 ; d. Nov. 7, 1802.
3686 Nancy Orilla Strong, b. June 7, 1803; m. Nov. 2, 1827, Stephen
Smith Foote, b. Aug., 1802, son of Stephen Foote and Mary
Wilson. +
3687 Roswell Strong, b. April 14, 1806; d. Aug. 25, 1825.
8th gen. Children of Bela and Sarah Strong, (3679):
3688 Lorenzo Kellogg Strong, b. Sept. 20, 1810.
3689 Rachel Cordelia Strong, b. Sept. 20, 1816; m. Lysander W.
Parsons.
Children of Louisa and Russell Clapp, (3680):
3690 Emily Clapp, b. and d. in 1812.
3691 Emily Bissell Clapp, b. Nov. 14, 1813; m. Lester M. Cook.
3692 Rev. Charles Wells Clapp, b. Jan. 22, 1817; m. Aug. 16, 1849,
Jane Pray Bassett.
3693 Henrietta Clapp, b. July 26, 1820; d. Nov. 15, 1821.
3694 Russell Kellogg Clapp, b. Oct. 5, 1823; m. July, 1852, Amelia
Cough.
(SrtiraUisg of % Pom^rog J^atnUg 36B
3695 Henrietta Clapp, b. July 25, 1825; d. young.
3696 Louisa Clapp, b. July 7, 1826; d. Jan., 1835.
3697 Sarah Amanda Clapp, b. Oct. 1, 1828; m. Joseph E. Cowdrick.
Children of Dca, Theodore and Juliana Strong, (3681:)
3698 Parmenas Beriah Strong, b. Dec. 10, 1820; m. Nov. 29, 1855.
Caroline Ellis, b. June 28, 1833, dau. of James Ellis and Miranda
Lewis; he d. March 29, 1857.
3699 Augustus Bela Strong, b. March 19, 1822; m. Nov. 28, 1844,
Jane Lamyra Edwards, b. Oct. 21, 1825. dau. of Edmund Edwards
and Abigail Bascomb; he d. May 23, 1865.
3700 Delia Amanda Strong, b. Nov. 11, 1823; unm.
Children of Gratia and George Skinner, (3682):
3701 Emma Skinner, b. May 24, 1823; m. Aug. 26, 1847, Garrett
Roseboom.
3702 Gratia Skinner, b. March 24, 1826; m. Oct. 11, 1848, Robert
C. Jackson.
Children of Nancy O, and Stephen S, Foote, (3686):
3703 Flora Amelia Foote, b. Sept. 7, 1830; m. May 21, 1858, Chaun-
cey S. Welton.
3704 Roswell Smith Foote, b. March 12, 1833.
3705 Emma Gratia Foote, b. Aug. 1, 1837; m. Nov. 5, 1857, Levi
Nelson.
3706 Charles Egbert Foote, b. Sept. 6. 1840; m. Jan. 9, 1868, Laura
Gillett.
3707 George Eugene Foote, b. April 3, 1844.
1670 AARON POMEROY, JR., (Aaron, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel,
Caleb, Eltweed), bp. Aug. 18, 1767, in Southampton, Mass.; m.
May 28, 1797, Cranda Robinson.
yth gen. Children, b, Southampton:
3708 Cranda Pomeroy, b. 1798; d. 1803.
3709 DiANTHA Pomeroy, b. 1802.
3710 Alonzo Pomeroy, b. 1810.
3711 Theodore Pomeroy, b. 1813.
3712 Lucy Pomeroy, b. 1818; m. Mr. Pendleton of Easthampton.
1723 CHARITY POMEROY, (Abner, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Jan. 19, 1757, in Southampton; m. Jan. 27, 1780, Lieut. Samuel
Burt, b. May 22, 1759, d. June 7, 1822, son of Deacon Samuel
Burt and Hannah King; she d. Nov. 22, 1838.
/r/t gen. Children, b. in Southampton:
3713 Rev. Sylvester Burt, b. Sept. 30, 1780; m. Sept. 17, 1806, Anna
Hatch; gr. Williams College, 1804; studied divinity with Rev. Dr.
Lathrop; settled in Great Barrington, Mass.; m. (2) after 1822,
Amanda Nash; he d. Jan. 10, 1836. Before the completion of his
seventh year Sylvester Burt had read through the entire Bible.
He was licensed to preach by the Hampshire South Conference;
ordained in 1806, and installed in Western, the old name for the
369 i^ixtlf <Srtttration - CSttbb
town of Warren; later, was settled in New Marlborough and
Great Barrington. His wife, Anna Hatch, left him three daugh-
ters and two sons; his second wife, Amanda, dau. of Deacon Nash
of Great Barrington, and her daughter survived him.
3714 Esther Burt, b. Nov. 17, 1781; m. Oct. 9, 1801, John Rust; she
d. April 18, 1852.
3715 Charity Burt, b. Nov. 23, 1783; m. Oct. 18, 1810, Asa Lyman,
son of Deacon John and Martha Lyman; d. Dec. 10, 1839, at
Southampton. +
3716 Samuel Burt, b. Jan. 25, 1785; m. Dec. 19, 1806, Sarah Everett;
he d. Feb. 28, 1809. +
3717 Oliver Pomeroy Burt, b. June 11, 1787; m. Jan. 21, 1808, Thank-
ful Clark, dau. of Giles Clark and Huldah Pomeroy (630) ; he d.
Jan. 17, 1864.
3718 Rev. Federal Burt, b. March 27, 1789; gr. Williams College,
1812; m. July 28, 1819, Mary Pickering; he d. Feb. 9, 1828. He
studied for college with his brother Sylvester while he was Pastor
at Western. After four years at Williams College he took a
theological course with Dr. Lyman at Hatfield, Mass., and Dr.
Porter at Catskill, N. Y. ; he had a pastorate of twelve years in
Durham, N. H., then suffered the amputation of an arm, and took
charge of the editorial department of the New Hampshire Ob-
server; his wife survived him.
3719 Dorothy Burt, b. Jan. 22, 1791 ; m. Nov. 26, 1818, Spencer Bridg-
man of Northampton; she d. May 18, 1859.
3720 Hannan Burt, b. Jan. 6, 1793; m. May 4, 1838, Worcester Avery
of Easthampton.
3721 Rev. Jairus Bltit, b. March 16, 1795. He united with the Con-
gregational church at Southampton in 1816, the year he attained
his majority, and m. his first wife, Electa Carpenter of Norwich,
Mass., who d. in 1818. He also studied with his brother. Rev.
Sylvester Burt, at New Marlborough, and entered Williams Col-
lege in 1820. The next year Amherst College was opened and he
withdrew to Amherst. After graduating, 1824, he studied for two
years at Auburn Theological Seminary; was ordained and installed
pastor of the church in Canton, Conn.. Dec. 20, 1826, where he
remained pastor until his death. In 1827, he m. Betsey C. Ward,
dau. of Edmund Ward of New Marlborough.
3722 Capt. Warham Burt, b. Dec. 19, 1796; m. 1823, Sarah Chapman,
dau. of Asahel Chapman and Sarah Winter; she d. 1834; he d.
Dec. 22, 1863, in Southampton, Mass.
3723 Persis Burt, b. Aug. 27, 1798; m. June 7, 1838, Isaac Bronson of
Montgomery, Mass. ; he d. March 24, 1857.
8tk gen. Children of Charity and Asa Lyman, (3715):
3724 Samuel Lyman, b. July 16, 1811; m. Lucetta Burt.
3725 Dorcas H. Lyman, b. June 15, 1813; m. Mann Loomis of South-
ampton.
3726 Charity Lyman, b. Oct 6, 1819 ; d. June 26, 1826.
3727 Martha Lyman, b. Sept 8, 1822.
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Children of Samuel and Sarah Everett Burt, (3716):
3727.1 Abner Burt, b. 1807.
3727.2 Samuel Burt, b. 1809.
1727 SILAS POMEROY, {Abner, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltiveed), b.
April 16, 1764, in New Hampshire; m. Sarah Stone, b. in New
Hampshire; soldier of the Revolution.
7/A gen. Child:
3728 Henry Pomeroy, b. July 7, 1801. +
1729 ABIGAIL POMEROY, (Abner, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. May 2, 1766; m. June 11, 1785, John Miller of Southampton,
Mass.; she d. 1814.
7th gen. Children:
3729 TiRZAH Miller, b. 1788; m. April 25, 1808, Deacon Ansel Clark,
b. Feb. 16, 1787, son of Noah Clark and Eunice Strong. Res.,
Mesopotamia, Ohio. +
3730 Abigail Miller, b. 1790; m. 1812, Calvin Miller.
3731 Phebe Miller, b. 1793; d. 1803.
3732 Relief Miller, b. 1794; m. 1815, Thomas Thorpe.
3733 Rebecca Miller, b. 17%; m. William Sheldon.
3734 Freelove Miller, b. 1797; d. 1815.
3735 Experience Miller, b. 1800; d. soon.
3736 Dolly Miller, b. 1802; m. Joel Ponieroy, son of Joel Pomeroy
(1927) and Mary Campbell.
3737 Son Miller, b. March 20, 1803; d. soon.
3738 Phebe Miller, b. May 9, 1804; m. William Blossom of Roches-
ter, N. Y.
3739 Clarissa Miller, b. Nov. 17, 1806; m. George Whiting of Roches-
ter, N. Y.
8th gen. Children of Tiraah and Ansel Clark, (37^9):
3740 Jeduthan Clarke, b. July 10, 1809; m. Nov. 8, 1833, Maria Stiles
of Southwick, Mass., b. Sept. 3, 1809, dau. of Dorus Stiles and
Sally Barker. He was postmaster in Mesopotamia, Ohio.
3741 Ansel Clarke, b. Aug. 20, 1810; m. April 24, 1834, Marilla
Eunice Gaines.
3742 TiRZAH Clarke, b. Dec. 14, 1811; m. March 29, 1831, Elisha
Wait, b. Oct. 24, 1808.
3743 Parmenus Pomeroy Clarke, b. Aug. 3, 1813; m. Nov. 7, 1839,
Sarah Elmina Bassett, b. Jan. 12, 1820.
3744 Ebenezer Sheldon Clarke, b. Sept. 16, 1816; m. May 11, 1842,
Eliza Teed, b. March 28, 1822.
3745 Freelove Angeline Clarke, b. Jan. 5, 1819; m. James Anderson.
3746 Henry Alvanus Clarke, b. May 23, 1823; m. Nov. 15, 1849,
Harriet Joslin, b. Oct. 5, 1822.
3747 Edwin Augustus Clarke, (twin with Henry), b. May 23, 1823;
d. Oct. 7, 1824.
3748 Edwin Augustus Clarke, b. March 19, 1827; m. Nov., 1846,
Elizabeth Clarke, b. 1827.
, i&anuul (Clark llatnmti
(3775)
1730 ELECTA POMEROY, (Abner, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. July 17, 1768; m. Nov. 6, 1791, Asher King, Jr., of Suffield,
Conn.
7/A gen. Children:
3749 Ralph S. King, b. Oct. 21, 1792.
3750 Nancy King, b. Oct. 7, 1794; d. Sept. 21, 1796.
3751 Nancy King, b. Sept. 28, 1796.
3752 Franklin King, b. Aug. 28, 1798.
1739 DEACON STEPHEN POMEROY, {Elijah, Caleb, Samuel,
Caleb, Eltwecd), b. June 20, 1769, in Southampton, Mass.; m. Oct.
24, 1793, Lydia Bridgman, b. Aug. 23, 1774, in Northampton, d.
May 5, 1837, in Huntsburg, Ohio, dau. of Noah Bridgman and
Mercy Wright Clark; he d. June 16, 1854, Huntsburg, Ohio. He
was the first New England settler at Huntsburg, Aug. 9, 1808.
Eben Hunt and John Breck were owners of Huntsburg and agreed
to give Stephen Pomeroy 100 acres of the land if he would settle
with his family in the place. He started on foot for Huntsburg
(then known as Batavia) and arrived at Meno Johnson's house in
Middlefield in May, 1807. The following day, in company with
Meno and John Johnson, he started out to locate his farm. Cut
into a large beech tree they found the names of the surveyors,
and the date 1802, when the township was surveyed into lots. Mr.
Pomeroy chose his land in the southwest part of the town plat
and went to work with his axe to build a house. WTien the tim-
bers were ready he summoned help from three adjoining town-
ships to assist him in erecting it. The house was 24 x 18 feet, and
three days of hard labor were consumed in building. The follow-
ing year he brought his wife and six children out in their wagon,
drawn by three horses. About four miles south of Painesville
their wagon upset on Big Hollow hill and all the crockery was
broken. This was a sad calamity, as there were no stores in the
locality to enable them to replace the dishes, even if they had
possessed the money. They arrived at their cabin in the woods,
however, in good spirits on Aug. 19, 1808. But the other parties
to the contract did not keep their promises, and Stephen Pomeroy
paid the estates of Eben Hunt and John Breck for the land he
settled on in Huntsburg.
During the war of 1812, Deacon Stephen Pomeroy was one of
six men from the township to enlist in Capt Thompson's com-
pany, returning home at the end of three weeks. In 1818, when
the church was organized, Stephen Pomeroy was appointed Deacon
and held the office until the time of his death. Mrs. Pomeroy
was an excellent nurse, and frequently went forth on horseback,
with torch in hand, to minister to a sick neighbor many miles
away. She was one of the seven charter members of the First
Church in Huntsburg and a consistent Christian. The beautiful
custom of reunion by the descendants of Stephen Pomeroy obtains
to this day. The annual recurrence of Aug. 19, finds the different
I
(Krnralosg of tlft Pomrrog jlfamilg 372
families assembled at one of the homes, in the enjoyment of fra-
ternal pleasures, always including a splendid and abundant ban-
quet.
yth gen. Children, all b, in Southampton, Mass.:
3753 LucRETfA PoMEROY, b. Dec. 10, 1795. +
3754 Elijah Pomeroy. b. April 15, 1798. +
3755 Horace Pomeroy, b. June 28, 1800. +
3756 Melinda Pomeroy, b. Oct. 5, 1802. +
3757 Stephen Bridgman Pomeroy, b. Aug. 14, 1804. +
3758 Lydia Pomeroy, b. Jan. 17, 1807. +
1740 DR. ENOCH POMEROY, (Eli/ah. Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, EH-
zcced). b. July 20, 1771, in Southampton; m. July 31. 1793, Mary
(Polly) Tenney, of Bennington, Vt, b. Jan. 11, 1779, d. Aug. 17,
1863; he d. Jan. 28, 1833. They settled in Franklin, Vt., and d.
there.
^th gen. Children:
3759 Elijah Isaac Pomeroy, b. Nov. 13, 1798. +
3760 LuciEN Pomeroy, b. July 7, 1800; d. June 27, 1823.
3761 Enoch Pomeroy, b. July 11, 1802. +
3762 Jesse Pomeroy, b. July 2, 1804. +
3763 Mary Pomeroy, b. April 23, 1806. +
3764 Lorenzo Pomeroy, b. June 14, 1809. +
3765 John Nelson Pomeroy, b. Nov. 10, 1811; d. Oct. 19, 1813.
3766 Melissa Pomeroy, b. Sept. 5, 1813. +
3767 Hannah Pomeroy, b. July 13, 1816; m. June 14, 1842, Rev.
Stephen D. Brown, who d. Feb. 15, 1875 ; she d. Feb. 4, 1847. Had
a daughter, who d. unnamed.
3768 John Nelson Pomeroy, b. May 5, 1820. +
1741 SAMUEL POMEROY, (Elijah, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltu^eed),
b. May 13, 1774, in Southampton; m. Feb. 3, 1799, Dorcas Burt,
b. Oct. 4, 1773, d. April 8, 1855, dau. of Martin Burt and Dorcas
Clark; he d. April 8, 1854. They lived in the old Caleb homestead
in Southampton. The obituary on the death of Samuel Pomeroy
was written by the Rev. Phineas Moody, son of Eliza Pomeroy
Moody :
"The deceased was born in Southampton, and was of the Sixth
generation of the name from Eltweed, and the Fourth belonging
to Southampton. Descended from Puritan ancestors, Mr. Pomeroy
was like them, resolute, active, persevering, equitable, prudent, and
generous. Of sound body and vigorous mind, the latter seeming to
grow more strong with advancing years, while the former yielded
so reluctantly to the demands of time as to promise for him yet
^mething of life.
"Suddenly he was taken. The event, however, was not to him
unexpected. He had thought of death often and long. His hope
was the hope of the Christian. Prayer offered morning and eve-
ning for a long series of years seemed to fortify this hope while
it evinced to his family the sincerity of his profession. From the
Valley of the Connecticut to that of the Mississippi, and among
intervening hills are those of them and their descendants who will
remember his prayers. Grateful for the Providence which to him-
self and his surviving partner had shared, with loss of none,
three sons and four daughters, all now settled in life. His influ-
ence, though he be dead, will survive. Himself is but removed to
a higher sphere, beyond the mutations of earth."
7/A gen. Children:
3769 Eliza Pomeroy, b. Jan. 19, 1800. +
3770 Amelia Pomeroy, b. May 31, 1802. +
3771 King Burt Pomeroy, b. Jan. 3, 1805. +
3772 Rev. Lemuel Pomeroy, b. Jan. 31, 1807. +
3773 Fanny Pomeroy, b. Feb. 11, 1809. +
3774 Ruth Sophronia Pomeroy, b. Sept. 28, 1812. +
3775 Hon, Samuel Clark Pomeroy, b. Jan. 3, 1816; m. (1) Annie
Pomeroy (4113), dau. of Richard Pomeroy and Arua Pomeroy
of Otisco, N. Y., (who was dau. of Ira Pomeroy and Experience
Pomeroy, she being dau. of Ebenezer Pomeroy and Experience
Clark) ; Annie d. 1843; he m. (2) April 23, 1846, Lucy Ann Gay-
lord, who d. s. p., July 30, 1863; he m. (3) Martha Whiting of
Boston; he d. Aug. 27, 1891, without issue. Lanman's "Biograph-
ical Annals of Civil Government," 1876, says:
« 4( Ki 1^ After an academic education, Hon. Samuel Clark
Pomeroy entered Amherst College in 1836, passed four years in
New York, returned to his native town (Southampton), and held
various local offices, and was elected to the Legislature of Massa-
chusetts in 1852. In 1854 he was engaged in organizing the New
England Aid Society and became its financial agent; he removed
to Kansas in the same year and participated in its affairs. He
was a member of the Territorial Defense Committee, a delegate
to the Pittsburg and Philadelphia Conventions of 1856, and also
to that of Chicago of 1860. During the famine in Kansas he was
chairman of the relief committee, and in 1861 he took his seat in
the United States Senate from Kansas for six years, serving on
the committees on Pensions, Claims, Territories, Manufactures,
and was Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands. In Jan.,
1867, he was re-elected to the Senate for the term ending in 1873.
Subsequently, he settled in Washington city, where an attempt was
made to assassinate him by Martin T. Conway, with whom he had
had a long and bitter quarrel."
An Atchison (Kansas) paper of the day, speaking of his popu-
larity, says: '^General Samuel C. Pomeroy became identified with
the anti-slavery movement in 1843, in which year he became the
Liberty candidate for the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1850 he
was elected to the Legislature of that state, and served two terms.
In 1854 he came to Kansas and b.ecame prominently identified with
the Free State party. On April 4, 1861, Kansas, through her
representatives, elected Gen. Samuel Pomeroy of Atchison, and
Gen. James Lane of Lawrence, to be her United States Senators.
(6fmalag^ of tlfp Pomrrog Jl^amUg 374
It was a bitter senatorial contest, and consumed two weeks' time in
Topeka. When General Pomeroy returned to Atchison on April
6, two days after his election, he was met by a procession of car-
riages, horsemen and a brass band, the parade being under the
direction of Major B. F. Livingston, marshall of the day. General
Pomeroy, seated in a carriage drawn by four white horses, was
escorted by this procession into Atchison. The lines were drawn
up in front of the Massasoit hotel, from the balcony of which the
newly-elected Senator made an address. On that evening a ball
in honor of the General was held at the hotel."
One can scarcely refrain from noting the irony presented by the
fact that this indefatigable worker in the cause of the emancipa-
tion of the negro was assigned the seat in the Senate Chamber
which had previous to the rebellion been occupied by Jefferson
Davis.
1742 RUTH POMEROY, {Elijah, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
April 10, 1777, in Southampton; m. Nov. 24, 1799, Paul Chapman
of Southampton, b. 1768, d. April 30, 1856; she d. May 31, 1810.
7th gen. Children, fr. in Southampton:
3776 Sardis Chapman, b. June 15, 1803; m. Nov. 22, 1827, Dolly
Searle, b. May 2, 1807, d. June 6, 1844, dau. of Cornelius Searle
and Dolly Clark; he m. (2) Feb. 17, 1846, Miss Morgan, b. Nov.
2, 1816, dau. of Roland and Roxanna (Flagg) Morgan; he m. (3)
May 14, 1866, Mrs. Hannah Burch Mix of New Haven, Conn.
Sardis Chapman always took an active interest in the affairs of
Southampton, and it was said that he was Sealer of Leather for
so many years that the records looked incomplete without his name
thereon. His opinion and judgment were always respected, and
his remarks in town meetings always commanded attention. He
was a noted antiquarian and authority on genealogical matters.
In fact, it is to Sardis Chapman that the Annalist of the Pomeroy
genealogy is indebted for a large volume of vital statistics, com-
piled by him from the records of Massachusetts. Mr. Chapman
spent the later years of his life in collecting such records, and they
included almost every family in the town of Southport, with num-
erous branches from the earliest days of the colony, grouped in
comprehensive order. His was a character of strong and sterling
qualities, tempered by a courtesy which endeared him to all; and
an earnest searcher with his keen incisive intellect after the solu-
tion of many of life's mysterious problems. +
2777 Tamesin R. Chapman, b. July 1, 1805; m. (1) Nov. 23, 1845,
Hiram P. Randolph, who d. Jan. 20, 1849; she m. (2) in 1850,
Jesse Elwell of Northampton. There was a son, unnamed, bom to
her first marriage, but he d. in infancy.
3778 Mahlon Pomeroy Chapman, b. June 16, 1807; he prepared for
college at the Sheldon Academy in Southampton; graduated from
Amherst College, 1831 ; was for two years a member of Andovcr
Theological Seminary; d. in Andover, Sept. 1, 1835.
3779 Alvin Wentworth Chapman, b. Sept. 28, 1809. He prepared
ars dfaelly (gritgrattoti - (fabb
for college at the Gould and Sheldon Academy; graduated from
Amherst, 1829; taught school in the South for many years; entered
a medical college in Philadelphia; practiced medicine in Georgia
and Florida; was greatly interested in botany, and wrote a pretty
book entitled, "The Flora of the Southern States." He m. Mrs.
Mary Hancock of Georgia; had one child which d. soon. Resided
in Appalachicola, Fla., in 1888.
8th gen. Children of Sardis and Dolly Chapman, (3776):
3780 Charles H. Chapman, b. and d. June 21, 1828.
3781 Harriet Eliza Chapman, b. June 30, 1830.
3782 Mary Jane Chapman, b. Aug. 3, 1834; d. June 28, 1850.
3783 Sarah Maria Chapman, b. Aug. 21, 1836; d. soon.
Child by 2d wife:
3784 Franklin Herbert Chapman, b. and d. in 1846.
1743 JOEL POMEROY, {Elijah, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
July 13, 1780, in Southampton, Mass.; m. Dec. 19, 1813, Mary
Hale, b. Oct. 1, 1784, d. June, 1854. He settled in Westhampton,
Mass.
7th gen. Children:
3785 Reuben Pomeroy, b. Oct. 20, 1815; d. March 8, 1844; unm.
3786 Gaius Pomerov, b. March 7, 1817. +
3787 Mary Pomeroy, b. Dec. 29, 1818; d. 1833; unm.
3788 Lucy Pomeroy, b. July 21, 1826.
1785 ANNA POMEROY, {Caleb, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), bp.
1774; m. Oct. 15, 1797, David Slack. They settled in Denmark,
N. Y.
7th gen. Children:
3789 Ursula Slack, b. 1804, Southampton; m. Dec. 5, 1830, James
Bishop Finch; she d. Aug. 17, 1845, Southampton. +
3790 Luexa Slack, b. ; m. Abner Moore; d. at Champaign, 111.
8th gen. Children of Ursula and James B, Finch, (378g):
X79\ Eli Richards Finch, b. 1831 ; d, 1842.
3792 James Byron Finch, b. Dec. 21, 1832; m. Adelaide V. Terry; d.
April 6, 1909, Amagansett, L. I.
3793 Almira Strong Finch, b. Oct. 5, 1834; m. Martin Qapp; d.
March 28, 1910, at Northampton.
3794 Ursula Finch, b. June 17, 1842; d. Nov. 5, 1861, at Southamp-
ton.
1788 SARAH POMEROY, {Caleb, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
1782; m. in 1807, Elijah Stockwell.
7th gen. Children:
3795 Daughter Stockwell, m. Mr. Torrey; she d. Oct. 4, 1859.
3796 Daughter Stockwell, m. Mr. Bardwell.
1800 SYLVIA POMEROY, {Enos, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Elttveed), b.
(^tmsla^^ of tlfp Pomrrog Jl^amUg 37B
May 5, 1770; m. Jan. 7, 1804, Isaac Robbins (his second wife, the
first having been Abigail Pomeroy) ; resided in Amherst, Mass., where
she died.
7th gen. Children:
3797 Son Robbins, b. Jan. 23, 1805; d. in infancy.
3798 Rachel Robbins, b. Nov. 13, 1811; m. Mr. Nash.
3799 Samantha Robbins, b. July 14, 1813.
1802 DR. SAUL POMEROY, (Enos, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Feb. 15, 1779; m. July 2, 1808, Rebecca Van Buskirk, b. March
22, 1780, d. Oct. 16, 1822; he d. April 10, 1841. in New York City.
7/A gen. Children:
3800 John Van Buskirk Pomeroy, b. April 2. 1809. +
3801 Mary Buskirk Pomeroy, b. April 18, 1811. +
3802 Thomas Lawrence Pomeroy, b. Oct. 31, 1815; m. June 20, 1847,
in New York City, Sarah Freure, b. in Ipswich, County Suffolk,
England, Aug. 28, 1825; he d. June 1, 1854; s. p.
1803 WARHAM POMEROY, (Enos, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Aug. 29, 1781 ; m. March 3, 1807, Laura Griswold, b. Feb. 27,
1787, d. May 18, 1872, dau. of Abel Griswold of Southampton; he
d. Sept. 30, 1858, in Easthampton, Mass.
yth gen. Children:
3803 Emily N. Pomeroy, b. Dec. 15, 1807; d. Sept. 20, 1878; unm.
3804 Edward Pomeroy, b. Feb. 25, 1809. +
3805 Warham Pomeroy, b. and d. in 1811.
3806 Harriet Laura Pomeroy, b. Sept. 29, 1813. +
3807 Julia Augusta Pomeroy, b. April 5, 1815. +
3808 Warham Pomeroy, b. March 23, 1817; d. May 4, 1853; unm.
3809 Hiram Pomeroy. b. June 8, 1819. +
3810 Weltiie Griswold Pomeroy, b. Sept. 3, 1823; unm. Resided at
Chester, Mass.
3811 Jane Sylvia Pomeroy, b. July 7, 1825. 4-
3812 CaxNdace Lyvia Pomeroy, b. Nov. 20, 1829. +
3813 Amanda Edith Pomeroy, b. June 13, 1832; lived in Chester,
Mass. She was a teacher of more than ordinary capacity, and
held engagements in the higher grades in large cities in Maryland
and Virginia; after the Rebellion she taught in Cleveland, Ohio;
Canandagua, and Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Burlington, N. J.; Versailles,
Ky. ; Washington, D. C, and other cities. She d. Aug. 12, 1892.
1801 SETH POMEROY, (Enos, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
1784, in Easthampton, Mass.; m. 1829, Betsey Lewis; he d. in
1865, in Lockport, N. Y. Resided in Lockport, N. Y.
yth gen. Children:
3814 SoLON Seth Pomeroy, b. Sept. 22, 1830. +
3815 Chloe Saloame Pomeroy, b. about 1834; m. Mr. Fisher.
1805 FREEDOM POMEROY, {Enos, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
3rr f^xxti^ dtmrn^m - CHaUfa
b. May 2, 1786; m. April 4, 1809, Chester Hewes Gee, who d. Dec.
30, ISiSO; she d. March 31, 1865. Res., Thompson, Ohio.
^th gen. Children:
3816 Sylvia Ursula Gee, b. Dec. 30, 1809; m. Nov. 5, 1836, Chillon
Sperry, who d. Nov. 23, 1879; she d. Oct. 22, 1875. Res., Eton,
Ohio. +
3817 Phebe Elvira Gee, b. Nov. 2, 1811; m. March 19, 1848, Garrett
Warner. Res., Windsor, Kansas. +
3818 Lysander Warren Gee, b. Oct 19, 1813; m. July 4, 1850, Sarah
J. Potts. Res., St. Francesville, 111. +
3819 Elizabeth Ann Gee, b. Sept. 9, 1815; m. Nov. 8, 1836, Alonzo
Shedd. Res., Painesville, Ohio. +
3820 Benjamin Franklin Gee, b. Oct. 18, 1818; m. Jan. 8, 1868, Sarah
C. Bradley. Res., Thompson, Ohio.
3821 Fidelia T. Gee, b. Feb. 12, 1819; d. Oct. 18, 1821.
3822 Milton Pomeroy Gee, b. March 3, 1822 ; m. April 8, 1847, Sophia
Amelia Langdon. Res., Vincennes, Ind. +
3823 Sylvester Judd Gee, b. May 15, 1824; m. Feb. 26, 1855, Sarah
Yonkers. Res., Eagleville, Cal.
3824 Fidelia Thankful Gee, b. June 25, 1826; she was for thirty years
a successful teacher, and in 1888 a missionary at Nephi, Utah.
3825 Samuel Austin Gee, b. Nov. 8, 1829; m. Oct. 20, 1860, in Chi-
cago, Susan G. Scott. Res., Eldorado, Kansas. +
3826 Helen Marion Gee, b. April 4, 1832; m. April 5, 1855, Benjamin
S. Cogswell. Res., Cleveland, Ohio. +
3827 Harriet Phelps Gee, b. Feb. 16, 1834; m. March 16, 1861, Rev.
Adam C. Barnes. Res., Wapakoneta, Ohio, where Mrs. Barnes
d. Feb. 2, 1866. +
8th gen. Children of Sylvia U, and Chillon Sperry, (3816):
3828 Mary E. Sperry, b. Nov. 5, 1839; m. Dec. 6, 1863, Rev. Frank
M. Searles; she d. Nov. 19, 1885.
3829 Naomi Sperry, b. Feb. 1, 1843; m. Nov. 30, 1867, Rev. Russell
B. Pope; she d. Dec. 1, 1869. Res., Toledo, Ohio.
3830 Fidelia Sperry, b. Dec. 18, 1847; d. Sept. 12, 1854.
Children of Phebe E, and Garrett Warner, (3817):
3831 Lysander Warner, b. April 18, 1849; d. Nov. 12, 1869.
3832 George S. Warner, b. Aug. 15, 1851 ; m. June 9, 1879, Jennie
Hereford. Res., Windsor, Kansas.
3833 Lillie F. Warner, b. Oct. 8, 1853.
Children of Lysander W. and Sarah J, Gee, (3818):
3834 Mary E. Gee, b. June 8, 1851; d. Sept. 20, 1852.
3835 Sylvester Judd Gee, b. Sept. 23, 1853 ; m. Dec. 10, 1885, Arabella
Weyl. Res., St. Francesville, 111.
3836 John M. Gee, b. Jan. 2, 1856; m. Jan. 19, 1886, Addie Bamett;
one child. Res., St. Francesville, 111.
3837 Amelia M. Ge£, b. Jan. 23, 1858.
3838 Emma F. Gee, b. March 26, 1863.
(ipn^alogg of ttft PomrroQ 3Familg 37B
Children of Elizabeth A, and Alonzo Shedd, (jSrp):
3839 Marinda E. Shedd, b. Feb. 23, 1840; d. Feb. 5, 1841.
3840 Franklin A. Shedd, b. Feb. 2, 1842.
3841 Perkins A. Shedd, b. Tan. 9, 1844; d. Sept. 9, 1845.
3842 Alonzo P. Shedd, b. Dec. 14, 1845: d. April 12, 1847.
3843 Emh^v C. Shedd, b. April 24, 1848; m. Oct. 1882, William J.
Wales. Res., Painesville, Ohio.
3844 Adelia M. Shedd, b. Jan. 3, 1851 ; d. May 17, 1863.
Children of Milton Pomeroy and Sophia A. Ghee, (3822):
3845 Sophia Amelia Ghee, b. July 4, 1848; m. Aug. 20, 1871, Field-
ing A. Hyatt.
3846 Mary Olivia Ghee, b. Xov. 21, 1849; m. Sept. 25, 1873, Robert
Lee Black; she m. (2j Dec. 29, 1878, John H. Hatcher; he d.
Nov. 18, 1887.
3847 Carrie Harriet Ghee, b. June 25, 1855.
3848 Milton Pomeroy Ghee, b. Sept. 13, 1859.
Children of Samuel A, and Susan Scott Gee, (382^):
3849 Linnie Bell Gee, b. Aug. 1, 1865; m. Sept. 27, 1887, Leroy R.
Finney.
3850 Edwin Stanton Gee, b. April 19, 1872.
Children of Helen M. and Benjamin S. Cogswell, (3826):
3851 Carra Lavera Cogswell, b. Dec. 2, 1857; m. Oct. 2, 1880, Horace
D. Williams. Res., Cincinnati, Ohio.
3852 Arthur Clark Cogswell, b. Sept. 21, 1862; m. June 22, 1886,
Alice Buchan.
Children of Harriet and Adam C Barnes, (3827):
3853 Helen Florence Barnes, b. March 9, 1863.
3854 Harriet Elizabeth Barnes, b. Jan. 11, 1866.
1807 SOLOMON POMEROY, {Solomon, Caleb, Samuel, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. 1781; m. Oct. 27, 1808, Fidelia Lyman, b. 1780, d. 1858,
dau. of Capt. David Lyman of Easthampton, Mass.; he d. Jan.,
1859.
yth gen. Child:
3855 Fidelia Emeline Pomeroy, b. March 22, 1810. +
1884 JOSHUA POMEROY, {Gideon, Joshua, Samuel, Caleb. Eltzvced),
bp. Dec. 17, 1790, in Southampton; m. Dec. 30, 1813, Rachel Strong,
b. April 3, 1791, d. March 1, 1831, dau. of Medad Strong and
Rachel Brown; he m. (2) Feb. 2, 1832, Charlotte Merriman, b.
June 26, 1805, in Westfield, Mass., dau. of Thomas Merriman;
he d. Sept. 3, 1859.
7//t gen. Children by ist wife, b. in Southampton:
3856 Infant, b. and d. 1815.
3857 Charles Smith Pomeroy, (adopted) b. Aug. 21, 1815, in North-
ampton; d. Feb. 14, 1892.
3858 Addison Strong Pomeroy, b. Sept. 12, 1817; m. Mary Hull, dau.
of John Hull of Westfield, Mass.; both d. of cholera in Paris,
3r9 »ixtii (Spttrratiott - Otalrfa
Ky., during an epidemic there in July, 1849, within a day or two
of each other; s. p. He was a teacher and mechanic.
3859 Medad Luman Pomeroy, b. Sept. 21, 1819; m. Jennie Rhodes of
Chesterfield, Mass. ; he d. June 4, 1889.
3860 Elvira Esther Pomeroy, b. Sept. 15, 1821. +
3861 Rachel Paulina Pomeroy, b. Nov. 4, 1823; d. Feb. 5, 1824.
3862 Eunice Paulina Pomeroy, b. Jan. 25, 1825. +
Children by ^d imfe, b. Southampton:
3863 Rachel Sabrina Pomeroy, b. Dec. 4, 1832; m. in 1860, Horace
Rhodes; she d. Jan. 11, 1896.
3864 Franklin Joshua Pomeroy, b. 1836; d. Aug. 21, 1907; unm.
3865 Payson Meigs Pomeroy, b. Feb. 4, 1840. +
3866 Charlotte Eliza Pomeroy, b. Oct. 3, 1842. +
3867 Cassandana Josephine Pomeroy, b. Feb. 13, 1845. +
3868 Mayette Emma Pomeroy, b. March 19, 1849. +
3869 Emorette Ella Pomeroy, (twin with Mayette), b. March 19,
1849. +
1885 GIDEON POMEROY, {Gideon, Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
bp. June 1, 1791, in Southampton; m. Dec. 5, 1829, Harriet Phelps,
of Cunimington, b. 1802, d. May 23, 1865; he d. Nov. 18, 1850.
jth gen. Children:
3870 Infant, d. soon.
3871 Thomas Cooley Pomeroy, (adopted), b. Oct. 3, 1831; d. Feb. 3,
1858, Easthampton, Mass.
1887 LOIS POMEROY, {Gideon, Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Feb. 17, 1795, in Southampton; m. Nov. 15, 1821, Julius Clark
of Easthampton, b. Nov. 20, 1792, d. May 7, 1848, son of Elam
Clark and Dorcas Brown; she d. Oct 18, 1863. Res., Easthampton,
Mass.
yth gen. Children, all b. in Easthampton:
3872 Sheldon Wright Clark, b. March 2S, 1823; d. April 28, 1870.
3873 Cecell\ Lemire Clark, b. June 5, 1825.
3874 Julius Franklin Clark, b. Feb. 2, 1828; d. Aug. 5, 1908.
3875 Austin Pomeroy Clark, b. May 20, 1829; d. March 8, 1894.
3876 Louisa Josephine Clark, b. Feb. 23, 1833; d. June 5, 1853.
1888 PHEBE POMEROY, {Gideon, Joshua, Satnuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. June 14, 1797, Southampton, Mass. ; m. Sept. 19, 1829, John Hull,
b. 1796, Middletown, Conn., d. Sept. 9, 1840, son of Tristram Hull
and Brown ; she d. June 1, 1884.
jth gen. Children, b. at Westfield, Mass.:
3877 John Sylvester Hull, b. March 28, 1831 ; m. 1856, Mrs. Maria
(Allen) Bardwell; m. (2) 1892, Carrie Phillips; he d. May 16, 1910,
Springfield, Mass.
3878 Sophia X'andeusen Hull, b. Feb. 20, 1833.
3879 Sylvanus Brown Hull, b. June 20, 1834; d. March 4, 1878, West-
field, Mass.
(SntraloQQ of fift PmnrniQ Jl^attnlQ 3B0
3880 Joseph Kincaid Hull, b. April 17, 1836; m. Jan. 5, 1868, Sarah
Louise Darling, b. June 19, 1844, Mansfield, Conn., dau. of Jillson
Darling and wife Clarissa Brett; he had military service with Co.
K, 52d Mass, Vol. Inf., in the Civil War, enlisting from Easthamp-
ton, Sept. 8, 1862; honorable discharge Aug. 14, 1863; was with
Gen. N. P. Banks on Red River expedition, and for a time on
detail duty. +
3881 G. Be^'jamin Hull, b. March 17, 1838; d. Oct. 14, 1845, Westfield.
Mass.
3881.1 Phebe Ann Hull, b. July 28, 1840; m. John Grout; d. 1875, East-
hampton, Mass.
8ih gen. Children of Joseph K. and Sarah Hull, (3880):
3882 Charles Darling Hull, b. Jan. 30, 1870, Easthampton, Mass.
Res., Springfield.
3883 Mary Alice Hull, b. Jan. 7, 1872, Williamsburg, Mass.; m.
George M. Ellis. Res., Norwich, Conn.
3884 Robert Ernest Hull, b. Aug. 22, 1879, Willington, Conn. Res.,
Norwich, Conn.
1889 GEORGE POMEROY, (Gideon, Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. May 1, 1799, in Southampton; m. Oct. 18, 1832, Clarissa John-
son, b. June 1, 1812, Wallingford, Conn., d. April 7, 1891, South-
ampton, Mass., dau. of William and Amelia Johnson ; he d. July 10,
1881.
7/ A gen. Children:
3885 Martha Clarissa Pomeroy, b. Xov. 3, 1833. +
3886 Mary Pomeroy, (twin with Martha), b. Nov. 3, 1833; d in in-
fancy.
3887 Philo Johnson Pomeroy, b. 1839; m. (1) Susan Stevens, b. 1839.
in Newark, N. J., d. May 3, 1894, dau. of Samuel Stevens and
Eliza Jane Cronk, d. s. p.; he m. (2) June, 1895, Mrs. Kittie M.
Ostrander of Chesterfield, Mass. ; he d. March 23, 1897. No
children.
3888 Margaret Edgerton Pomeroy, b. March 19, 1846, in Southamp-
ton ; d. Oct. 2, 1893 ; unm.
1891 JONATHAN POMEROY, (Gideon, Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. May 17, 1803, Southampton; m. (1) Sept. 10, 1834,
Ruth Thorpe, b. Oct. 26, 1812, d. May 23, 1836, dau. of James
Thorpe of Southampton and Lucy Andrus; he m. (2) May 31,
1837, Elizabeth Holcomb, b. Aug. 24, 1818, d. June 17, 1907, dau.
of Walter and Jane Holcomb; he d. June 24, 1878, in South-
ampton.
7th gen. Child by ist wife:
3889 Ruth Perkins Pomeroy, b. May 4, 1836. +
Children by 2d wife:
3890 Jonathan Edwards Pomeroy, b. April 11, 1841, in Southampton;
farmer, clerk, and teacher of penmanship. He enlisted Sept. 8,
301 i^ixttf (Spturatioti - (EaUfa
1862, in Co. K, 52d Mass. V^ol. Inf.; served in the Louisiana cam-
paign; was stationed with his regiment at Baton Rouge, Plaque-
mine and other garrison posts; he suffered a sun-stroke while on
duty which affected his brain, and was mustered out of service
on doctor's certificate, Aug. 14, 1863; on reaching home it was
found necessary to commit him to a hospital in Northampton,
Mass.
3891 Helen Elizabeth Pomerov, b. March 26, 1844; d. Sept. 19, 1849.
1892 DAVID POMEROY, (Gideon, Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. May 25, 1805, in Southampton, Mass.; m. May 19, 1831, in
Southampton, Mary Ann Pomeroy (4182), b. July 2, 1814, in
Southampton, d. Jan. 3, 1864, dau. of Isaac Pomeroy (2055) and
Mary Spaulding; he m. (2) Sept. 24, 1865, Sarah Ann Littlefield,
b. Jan. 4, 1814, in Saco, Me., d. Dec. 6, 1885, widow of Elisha
Bascom (who d. Sept. 28, 1861), (she having previously m. Wil-
liam Morrill). David Pomeroy d. March 27, 1882, in South-
ampton.
j'th gen. Children by ist wife, all b. in Southampton:
3892 David Alonzo Pomeroy, b. April 26, 1834; d. April 6, 1839.
3893 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. May 5, 1836; d. Feb. 13, 1861.
3894 Leora Caroline Pomeroy, b. Jan. 9, 1841 ; d. Dec. 6, 1856.
3895 Deborah Jane Spaulding Pomeroy, b. April 3, 1845. 4-
1895 DEACON SPEx\CER POMEROY, (Justus, Joshua, Samuel,
Caleb, Eltzveed), b. March 14, 1795, in Southampton; soldier of
the war of 1812; m. Oct. 19, 1822, Cynthia Spencer, b. 1797, d.
May 26, 1885 ; he d. July 29, 1880, in York, N. Y.
yth gen. Children:
3896 Oimielia Jerusha Pomeroy, b. Jan. 10, 1824; m. Nov. 14, 1872,
Alpheus Macomber.
3897 Caroline Lucy Pomeroy, b. Sept. 1, 1825; d. Jan. 16, 1892.
3898 Adeline Laura Pomeroy, (twin with Caroline), b. Sept. 1, 1825;
d. same day.
3899 Henry Spencer Pomeroy, b. Jan. 14, 1828. -^
3900 Jllius Pomeroy, b. and d. Feb., 1835.
3901 Julia Pomeroy, (twin with Julius), b. and d. F'eb., 1835.
3902 Frederick Brown Pomeroy, b. Dec. 8, 1837; d. June, 1900; unm.
1896 JULIUS POMEROY, (Justus, Joshua, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. May 6, 1802 ; m. May 16, 1827, Maria Clark, b. April 2, 1805,
d. July 20, 1842, dau. of Tulius Clark and Hannah Pelton; he m.
(2) May 10, 1843, Lucena'White, b. Nov. 17, 1814, d. Dec. 2, 1858,
dau. of Levi White of Easthampton and Miriam Alvord of South
Hadley, Mass.; he m. (3) Feb. 9, 1859, Sarah Loomis, b. Sept.
27, 1818, d. June 12, 1883, dau. of Luther Loomis and Dinah
Frary; Julius Pomeroy d. Jan. 5, 1886. (Julius Oark was son of
Oliver Clark and Phebe Parsons. Oliver Clark's mother was Sarah
Janes, dau. of Samuel Janes, the boy who was left for dead at the
(SntraUiQg of ti^t Pomrrog Jfamtlg 3B2
Passcommuck massacre by the Indians in May, 1704, Samuel Janes's
parents and several brothers and sisters were slain there). Carpenter
and farmer. Res., Easthampton, Mass.
/th gen. Children (all b. in Easthampton), by ist wife:
3903 Francis Henry Pomeroy, b. July 2, 1829. +
3904 Frederick Alphonso Pomeroy, b. Aug. 28, 1831. *^-
3905 Julius Clark Pomeroy, b. May 29, 1833. +
3906 Marie Antoinette Pomeroy, b. July 23, 1835. +
3907 Melissa Isabel Pomeroy, b. April 28, 1838; m. June 8, 1859, at
Griswold, Conn., Henry Beza Soule, b. June 26, 1834, in Chaplin,
Conn., d. Aug. 20, 1904, Jewett City, Conn., son of Ivory Soule
and Marilla Bingham; he claims descent from George Soule,
Capt. Myles Standish and John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Stephen
Hopkins and wife, and Mary AUerton and Francis Cook; she d.
Nov. 19, 1907.
Children by 2d wife:
3908 Herbert White Pomeroy, b. Aug. 27, 1844 ; volunteer soldier dur-
ing the Civil War, serving in Co. K, 52d Mass. Vol. Inf. ; d. in the
service and was buried at Plaquemine, La., Jan. 28, 1863.
3909 Ella Lucena Pomeroy, b. Dec. 15, 1849; m. Nov. 6, 1879, William
Fisher Bement, b. Feb. 2, 1853, Conway. Mass., d. May 27, 1893,
son of Chester Newhall Bement and wife Laurette A. Fisher of
Halifax, Vt., and grandson of Chester Bement and Polly Newhall,
Chester Bement's Mayflower ancestors being Elder William Brewster,
John Howland, John Tilly and wife and daughter Elizabeth: also,
Stephen Hopkins and daughter Constance (Hopkins) Snow and
Richard Warren.
3910 Minnie White Pomeroy, b. Oct. 6, 1852.
3911 Ianthe Estelle Pomeroy, b. Nov. 24, 1858; d. same day.
1897 JERUSHA POMEROY, {Justus. Joshua, Samuel Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Dec. 3, 1798; m. July 4, 1833, Joseph Haskins of
Northampton, b. Aug. 29, 1803; he d. Dec. 28, 1891, at Atchison,
Kansas ; she d. there also, Sept. 24, 1864.
yth gen. Children:
3912 Adoniram Judson Haskins, b. Aug. 19, 1835.
3913 Ann Hazeltine Haskins, b. March 27, 1840; m. Aug. 1, 1867.
Dr. A. N. Sprague ; he d. June 14, 1886 ; she d. 1910. +
8th gen. Child of Ann H. and Dr. A, N, Sprague, (3913):
3914 Birdie Lou Haskins Sprague, b. Feb. 26, 1869; m. Aug. 1, 1892,
Dr. W. Winston Waggoner. +
Qth gen. Child of Birdie L. and Dr, W. W, Waggoner, (3914):
3915 Helen Haskins Waggoner, b. June 16, 1893. She made her
home with her grandmother.
188B THOMAS JEFFERSON POMEROY, {Justus, Joshua, Samuel,
Caleb, Eltweed), b. April 12, 1808; m. Nov. 13, 1832, Rebecca
Stella Finch, b. June 3, 1807, d. Aug. 27, 1832, at Easthampton,
303 i^ixtlf CSrttrratuitt - CHabb
dau. of Joseph Foote Finch and Rebecca Abigail Andrews; he d.
March 17, 1888. He was a joiner and dealer in furniture; also a
funeral director in Easthampton.
/th gen. Children^ all b. in Easthampton, Mass,:
3916 Theron Luzerne Pomeroy, b. Sept. 10, 1833; d. Nov. 10, 1834.
3917 Theron Luzerne Pomeroy, b. Oct. IS, 1835; d. Sept. 17, 1861.
3918 Charles Stuart Pomeroy, b. April 22, 1839; d. June 18, 1843.
3919 Henry Foote Pomeroy, b. April 15, 1841; m. Dec. 1, 1869, Caro-
line E. Birge, b. June, 1845, at Torrington, Conn., dau. of VVillard
Hamlin Birge and Julia A. Merrill; he d. Dec. 10, 1898. No
children. On the day of his funeral the storekeepers closed their
business houses in his honor during the hour of his burial, a tribute
seldom observed there: he had been very courteous to others on
like sad occasions, and had attended at funeral rites at nearly every
house in town.
3920 Charles Stuart Pomeroy, b. March 20, 1846; d. Jan. 20, 1847.
190S TEMPERANCE POMEROY, {Ichabod, Noah, Samuel, Caleb,
Eltweed), b. July 12, 1789; m. Joseph L. Bartlett, who d. about
1830; she d. about 1850.
7th gen. Child:
3921 Moses Bartlett.
1909 SARAH ELY POMEROY, {Ichabod, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Feb. 22, 1791; m. Eli Bond; she d. about 1835.
jth gen. Child:
3922 Thomas W. Bond.
1912 DANIEL HARRIS POMEROY, (Ichabod^ Noah, Samuel, Caleb,
Elitvecd), b. April 27, 17%, Southport; m. April 26, 1821, in
Geauga county, Ohio, Hannah Kimble, b. May 30, 1801, in Genesee
county, N. Y., d. March 12, 1883. Her father d. in the service
during the Mexican war. At the age of twelve years, Daniel
Harris went west with his father's family, and in July, 1808, they
settled on a farm in Geauga county, Ohio. He assisted his father
very materially in clearing the immense forests surrounding their
new home. In 1822 he suffered an accident which disqualified him
from farm life, and when he was thirty years of age he learned
the shoemaker's trade, which enabled him to support a large fam-
ily. Later, he made some deals in real estate, moved to Russell
and cleared up a new farm. He finally followed his oldest son to
Wisconsin, going by steamboat from Cleveland, Ohio, to Mil-
waukee. In the spring of 1850 he located at Elba, Dodge county,
Wis. ; he d. there Sept. 16, 1884. He was a man of strong per-
sonality.
Jth gen. Children:
3923 Pankhurst Pomeroy, b. April 6, 1822. +
3924 Franklin Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1824. +
3925 Tirzah Pomeroy, b. April 17, 1826. +
<SntraUi9g of ti^t Pmnrrog JatnUg 3fi4
3926 Daniel B. Pomeroy, b. Aug. 22, 1828. +
3927 Eli Bond Pomeroy, b. Nov. 30, 1830. -f
3928 Ltoia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1833. +
3929 Lucy Pomeroy, b. 1836. +
3930 RosETTA Pomeroy, b. Dec. 20, 1838. +
3931 Albanus Kimble Moulton Pomeroy, b. June 2, 1841. +
3932 Mary L. Pomeroy, b. Dec. 2, 1843; d. Aug. 13, 1884; unm.
1914 JOSIAH ANDRUS POMEROY, (Ichabod, Noah, Samuel, Caleb,
Eltweed), b. Oct. 17, 1800, in Southampton, Conn.; m. Dec. 23,
1824, at Painesville, Ohio, Persis Meacham Jones; he d. Nov. 3,
1833.
Jth gen. Children:
3933 JosiAH Noah Pomeroy, b. Dec. 3, 1825 ; d. July 7, 1830.
3934 Sarah Louisa Pomeroy, b. May 2, 1827.
3935 Fordyce Douglass Pomeroy, b. Dec. 20, 1828.
3936 JosiAH Andrus Pomeroy, b. Jan. 28, 1832.
3937 Eliza Maria Paine Pomeroy, b. May 1, 1834.
1915 NOAH POMEROY, {Ichabod, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Oct. 9, 1802; m. Jan. 11, 1829, Marcia Samantha Jones, b. Jan.
11, 1806, d. April 14, 1857; he d. Oct. 17, 1884.
yth gen. Children:
3938 Noah Maxwell Pomeroy, b. Oct 21, 1829. +
3939 Jennie Marcia Pomeroy, b. Jan. 8, 1831. +
3940 Daniel Webster Pomeroy, b. June 16, 1833. -f
3941 Caroline Maria Pomeroy, b. April 13, 1835; d. Nov. 14, 1836.
3942 Capt. Wyllys Beecher Pomeroy, b. July 27, 1836. +
3943 Caroline King Pomeroy, b. April 18, 1846; d. June 23, 1847.
1916 RUSSELL POMEROY, (Gad, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
in 1782; m. (1) Dec. 10, 1805, Hannah Clapp, b. in 1782, d. May,
1829; he m. (2) in 1829, Hannah Harding, b. 1783, d. 1862; he
d. 1862.
yih gen. Child:
3944 Eli Clapp Pomeroy, b. 1807. 4-
1917 TITUS POMEROY, (Gad, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
about 1784, at Southampton, Mass.; m. Sally Snow about 1806;
he moved to Moody's Comers.
yth gen. Children:
3945 Otis Pomeroy, b. April 5, 1807. -+-
3946 Titus Pomeroy, b. about 1809, at Moody's Comers, Mass.; unm.
1918 GAD POMEROY, (Gad, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b. about
1787; m. in 1807, Joan Harris of Becket, Mass.
7th gen. Children:
3947 Sibyl Pomeroy, b. in 1808.
3948 William Pomeroy, b. in 1810.
3949 Nathan Pomeroy, b. in 1812.
^
3fl5 »ixtfr <8gtt»rattim - (BnUb
3950 Lucy Pomeroy, b. in 1814; m. Eli Clapp Pomeroy (3944), son of
Russell Pomeroy and Hannah Clapp. +
3951 Brewster Pomeroy, b. in 1820.
3952 Erastus Pomeroy, b. in 1824.
3953 Charity Pomeroy, b. in 1826.
3954 Clara Pomeroy, b. in 1828.
3955 Simeon Pomeroy, b. in 1830. +
laZl JULIUS POMEROY, (Gad, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
in 1792; m. in 1823, Susan Bagley of Southampton, Mass.; he d.
Feb. 9, 1862.
7/A gen. Children:
3956 James Dwight Pomeroy, b. in 1824; d. Aug., 1834.
3957 Ursula Malvina Pomeroy, b. in 1826; d. Sept., 1838.
1923 ENOCH POMEROY. (Gad, NoaK Samuel Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Dec. 31, 1804; m. (1) 1825, Ruth Brown of Becket, who d. in
1843; he m. again, although the name of the second wife is not
given; he d. Jan. 25, 1850.
/th gen. Children by ist wife:
3958 Martha Jane Pomeroy, b. in 1827; m. Mr. Crocker; he was later
adjudged insane.
3959 Amos B. Pomeroy, b. about 1828; m. Harriet Barnes. He was
a volunteer in the Civil War; joined the 27th Mass. Vol. Inf.; he
was wounded at Newbern, N. C, and discharged ; re-enlisted in
1864, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Northwest Creek, and
not liberated until the close of the war.
3960 George E. Pomeroy, went to sea; d. in hospital at Provincetown,
Cape Cod, in the early *50s.
3961 Daniel B. Pomeroy, was a volunteer in the Civil War; was mor-
tally wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864, and d.
in hospital at Arlington, Va., July 23, 1864.
3962 Electa Pomeroy, b. about 1833; m. Mr. Blindbury.
3963 Julia E. Pomeroy, d. in early life, unm.
3964 Lucy E. Pomeroy, b. Feb. 26, 1837; m. James Couch of Westfield.
1926 WELLS POMEROY, (Joel, Noah, Samuei Caleb, FMweed), b.
1800; m. (1) 1819, Betsey Bailey; m. (2) Nov. 15, 1854, Diantha
Brooks.
7th gen. Children:
3964.1 David Pomeroy. 3964.2 Lydia Pomeroy.
3964.3 Philetus Pomeroy, m. Miss Clark.
3964.4 Pamelia Pomeroy, m. Mr. Pease.
3964.5 Sarah Pomeroy. 3964.7 Frances Pomeroy.
3964.6 Theodore Pomeroy. 3964.8 Harmon Pomeroy.
1927 JOEL POMEROY, (Joel, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
1802; m. Dolly Miller, dau. of Abigail Pomeroy (1729) and John
Miller.
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7th gen. Children:
3965 Charles H. Pomeroy, m. Sept. 1, 1858, Elizabeth Weld; d. 1904-5,
s. p., Boston, Mass.
3%5.1 Mary Pomeroy, d. young. 3965.2 Abigail Pomeroy. -f
1928 REV. JEREMIAH POMEROY, {Joel, Noah, Samtiel, Caleb,
Eltweed)y b. May 2, 1804; graduated from Amherst College, 1829;
m. Oct. 28, 1832, Almira Morton of Hatfield, b. Nov. 9, 180^. d.
Aug. 28, 1890, at Orange, N. Y., dau. of William and Hannah
(Chambers) Morton. He also graduated from Auburn (N. Y.)
Theological Seminary. His first professional work was in Jasper
county, New York, as home missionary, and in the far west. He
was subsequently pastor of Congregational churches in Troy and
Harrisville, N. H., and in Rowe, and West Hampton, N. Y. He
also acted for a time as colporteur of the American Tract Society
in Franklin and Hampshire counties, Mass. After forty years of
busy ministerial work, he settled in Deerfield.
/th gen. Children:
3965.3 Terusha Morton Pomeroy, b. Sept. 2, 1833, at Tasper, N. Y. ; m.
July 4, 1854, J. Holmes Maltby; she d. July 9, "1886, at Ashfield;
s. p.
3966 William Morton Pomeroy, b. Aug. 3, 1836, at Troy, N. H. ; m.
(1) Dec. 3, 1863. Fanny White, dau. of Daniel White of West
Springfield; she d. March 20, 1881; he m. (2) April 10, 1883,
Mary J. Taylor of Columbia, S. C. ; s. p.
3967 Mary Fisk Pomeroy, b. July 22, 1839, at Troy, N. H.; m. W.
Cullen Hamilton. Res., Greenfield, Mass.
3968 John Howard Pomeroy, b. May 26, 1842, at Troy, N. H.; m.
Marion Butterfield; have an adopted daughter. Res., Brooklyn,
N. Y.
1929 MARY POMEROY, {Joel, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Jan. 25, 1808; m. (1) 1829, Charles Winthrop Weld, b. Worcester,
Mass., d. Aug., 1836; m. (2) in 1840, Charles IL Frary, b. South-
ampton, d. Jan. 20, 1886, son of Jesse Frary and Olive Dewey;
she d. April 3, 1875. Res., Southampton.
7th gen. Child by ist tnarriage:
3969 Elizabeth Weld; m. Sept. 1, 1858, Charles H. Pomeroy (3965).
son of Joel Pomeroy and Mary Hale; s. p.
Children by 2d marriage:
3970 Sarah Maria Frary, b. Feb. 2, 1841, Southampton; m. July 1,
1868, John Griswold Rathbun, b. Oct. 31, 1838, Mystic, Conn., d.
1885, son of Griswold Rathbun and Eleanor Packer. Res., Cleve-
land, Ohio. +
3971 Andrew Charles Frary, b. April 7, 1843, Southampton ; m. Mary
Wheaton Coutts, b. Perth Amboy, N. J., dau. of George M. Coutts
and Frances Hampton Wheaton; s. p.
8th gen. Children of Sarah M, and John G. Rathbun, (3970):
3972 Andrew Rathbun, b. Feb. 22, 1870, Elizabeth, N. J.; d. Feb. 13,
1871.
3973 Harry Packer Rathbun, b. Feb. 16, 1872; d. March 22, 1881.
3974 Mary Elizabeth Rathbun, b. Sept. 21, 1874; General Secretary,
Young Women's Christian Association, Cleveland, Ohio; unm,
3975 Frank DeGraff Rathbun, b. Nov. 5, 1876; gr. Mass. Institute
of Technology, Boston ; mining engineer ; m. Mary Goldacker. Res.,
Morenci, Arizona.
3976 Eleanor Packer Rathbun, b. Feb. 24, 1880; d. Morenci, Ariz.,
Nov. 21, 1904.
1930 SARAH POMEROY, {Joel, Noah, Samuel. Caleb, Eltweed), b.
in 1811; m. Nov. 25, 1831, Aaron Ely, b. May 21, 1808, son of
Moses Ely; she d. April 4, 1838.
yth gen. Children:
3977 Henrietta Pomeroy Ely. 3979 Edward Ely.
3978 Charles Ely.
1931 CORNELIUS POMEROY, (Joel, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. 1814; m. Dec. 5, 1836, Clemena Field of Whateley.
yth gen. Child:
3980 Edward DeGraffe Pomeroy, b. 1838. +
1934 ELEAZER POMEROY, (Daniel, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Oct. 14, 1790, at Peru, Berkshire county. Mass.; came with his
father's familv to Ohio, in 1709; settled at Thompson; m. Oct. 17,
1813. Irene Bates, b. Feb. 18, 1795, d. Aug. 31, 1867; he d. April
28, 1857. Farmer.
ph gen. Children:
3981 Elbridge G. Pomeroy, b. Jan. 8, 1815. +
3982 Oliver Perry Pomeroy, b. Jan. 6, 1817; drowned Aug. 19, 1818.
3983 Oliver Perry Pomeroy, b. March 11, 1819. +
3984 Harriet Pomeroy, b. Tune 11. 1821; d. 1895.
3985 Daniel Pomeroy, b. June 8. 1824.
3986 Benjamin Pomeroy, b. April 14, 1826.
3987 Lydia Pomeroy, b. Dec. 14, 1828; m. Mr. Rauch; resided at La-
Salle, Monroe Co., Mich.
3988 Otis Pomeroy, b. Aug. 23, 1831. Res., St. Paul, Minn.
3989 Francis Pomeroy, b. Jan. 29, 1834.
3990 Infant Pomeroy, b. Dec. 31, 1835; d. Jan. 10, 1836.
1937 DOLLY POMEROY, (Daniel, Noah, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Nov. 22, 1798; m. Otis Howe. Res., Thompson, Ohio.
7th gen. Children:
3991 Lydia Howe, m. Truman Pitkin. Res., Chardon, Ohio. +
3992 Louise Howe, m. Sidney Bostwick. Res., Chardon, Ohio. +
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8th gen. Children of Lydia and Truman Pitkin, (3991):
3993 Otis Howe Pitkin, Galion, Ohio.
3994 Frank Henry Pitkin, Andover, Ohio.
Children of Louise and Sidney Bostwick, (3992):
3995 Newton Henry Bostwick.
3996 Hubert Otis Bostwick. 3997 Robert Lee Bostwick.
3998 Helen Bostwick, m. Mr. Fletcher.
3999 Alice Bostwick, m. Mr. Holman.
4000 Maude Bostwick, m. Mr. Holman.
1962 SAMUEL POMEROY, {Simeon, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Sept 3, 1781, at Amherst, Mass.; m. March 31, 1804, at
East Windsor, Conn., Penelope Allen, b. Oct. 8, 1783, d. July 18,
1860, at Bristol, Ontario county, N. Y., dau. of AJlen and
Beulah Bissell; he d. at Bristol, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1875. He was a
farmer, and while young moved to York State, and about 1810,
settled at Bristol.
yth gen. Children:
4001 Allen Pomeroy, b. Dec. 9, 1804, in Amherst; m. Jan. 25, 1831,
Linda B. Jones; he d. at Bristol, of cholera, Nov. 19, 1832; she
m. (2) Capt. Sage; she d. about 1886, and was buried by the side
of her first husband, at Baptist Hill, Bristol; s. p.
4002 Elisha Hastings Pomeroy, b. July 29, 1806. 4-
4003 Mary Pomeroy, b. Jan. 25, 1808, Lebanon ; d. April 5, 1903, Rush-
ville. Res., Bristol, N. Y., 1889.
4004 Samuel Hastings Pomeroy, b. March 15, 1810. +
4005 Lucy Hastings Pomeroy, b. March 15, 1810, (twin with Sam-
uel). +
4006 Penelope Allen Pomeroy, b. March 1, 1815, at Bristol, N. Y. ; d.
there March 3, 1884; unm.
4007 Elvira B. Pomeroy, b. April 23, 1817. +
4008 Moses Bissell Pomeroy, b. Feb. 21, 1819. +
4009 Cynthia Pomeroy, b. Nov. 26, 1821. +
4010 Hannah Pomeroy, b. April 2, 1823. +
4011 Richard Wells Pomeroy, b. June 3, 1825. +
1963 MOSES POMEROY, (Simeon, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltzceed),
b. June 26, 1783, at Amherst, Mass. ; m. Irene Dickinson, b. April
21, 1785, dau. of Levi Dickinson; he d. Dec. 10, 1812, in Ironde-
quoit, N. Y., and was the first person buried in the cemetery on
the Hooker farm, which is the first farm beyond the present (1889)
line of Rochester, on the east side of North avenue. It is said
that a stone which marked his grave was carried away in 1885.
^th gen. Children:
4012 Maria Pomeroy, m. Mr. Wagner.
4013 Dan Pomeroy, m. Mrs. Mosher.
4014 Simeon Pomeroy, resided in New York City.
4015 Charles Warren Pomeroy. 4016 Lester Judson Pomeroy.
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1964 JESSE POMEROY, (i'tmirow, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. June 7, 1785, at Amherst, Mass.; m. in 1810, Naamah Dickin-
son, b. Aug. 10, 1786, d. June 28, 1831; he d. at Amherst, Sept.
13, 1827.
Jth gen. Children:
4017 Henry Pomeroy, b. Oct. 12, 1810; d. Aug. 10, 1883.
4018 Philo Pomeroy, b. Oct. 1, 1812; d. Feb. 28, 1813.
4019 Daniel Pomeroy, b. Oct. 10, 1815; d. July 21, 1840.
4020 Julia Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1820; d. May 9, 1847.
1965 LUTHER POMEROY, {Simeon, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Sept. 19, 1788, at Amherst, Mass.; m. in 1812, at Am-
herst, Sibyl Tower; she d. about 1854, and was buried in Gainard
Hill Cemetery, Bristol Summit, N. Y. Resided in Bristol until
nearly 90 years of age, and was then taken by his daughter Eliza
Gainard, to her home at Bath, Summit county, Ohio, where he d.
Dec. 21, 1883.
yth gen. Children:
4021 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. in 1813. +
4022 Lucy Pomeroy, b. Aug. 8, 1814, in Amherst, Mass.; d. Oct. 8,
1832, in Bristol, N. Y.
4023 Eliza Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1816; m. Dec. 6, 1870, Seymour
Gainard; s. p.
4024 Emeline Pomeroy, b. March 22, 1819; m. in 1840, Julius Thorp.
4025 Luther Pomeroy, b. July 21, 1822. +
4026 Chloe Pomeroy, b. March 17, 1826. +
4027 Naamaii Pomeroy, b. April 6, 1832; d. May 9, 1852, at Bristol,
N. Y.
4028 Lucy Ann Pomeroy, b. Dec. 25, 1837; d. March 3, 1842, at Bristol.
1966 SIMEON POMEROY, (Simeon, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, EU-
weed), b. March 2, 1791, at Amherst, Mass.; m. April 23, 1818,
Chloe Dickinson, b. in 1796, d. Feb. 9, 1876, dau. of Seth Dickin-
son; he d. Sept. 27, 1885, in East Granville, Mass. He was a
manufacturer of firearms near Springfield, Mass., and filled large
government contracts.
yth gen. Children:
4029 Simeon Pomeroy, b. and d. March 6, 1819.
4030 Emelia Pomeroy. b. March 28, 1820. +
4031 Chloe Pomeroy, b. Oct. 23, 1823; d. the same year.
4032 George Hastings Pomeroy, b. Aug. 11, 1826. +
1967 LEVI POMEROY, (Simeon, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. May 8, 1793, at Amherst, Mass.; m. March 7, 1815, Eleanor
Gainard. In 1814, he settled in Bristol, N. Y., and in 1844 re-
moved to Litchfield, Mich., and d. there Oct. 27, 1887. Farmer
and carpenter.
Jth gen. Children:
4033 Simeon Gainard Pomeroy, b. Aug. 29, 1816. +
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4034 Nancy L. Pomeroy, b. Oct. 8, 1819. +
4035 Elvira A. Pomeroy, b. June 22, 1824. +
4036 Jesse L. Pomeroy, b. Aug. 10, 1828. +
4037 Hon. Enos A. Pomeroy, b. March 16, 1832. +
4038 Mary A. Pomeroy, b. Oct. 9, 1836, at Bristol, N. Y. ; d. April 12,
1843, at East Bloomfield, N. Y.
4039 Hanson S. Pomeroy, b. Nov. 30, 1838, at Irondequoit, N. Y. ; d.
Sept. 3, 1839.
1980 ANSEL POMEROY, {David, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. July 21, 1788, at Amherst, Mass.; m. Sept. 3, 1818, Sally John-
son, b. Oct. 28, 1799, at Hadley, Mass., dau. of Stephen Johnson
and Sarah Lyman; he d. Feb. 29, 1860. Miller. Res., Amherst.
/th gen. Children, b. at Amherst, except the last:
4040 Sarah C. Pomeroy, b. July 9, 1819. +
4041 Lorenzo H. Pomeroy, b. Jan. 4, 1821. +
4042 George A. Pomeroy, b. July 31, 1823, +
4043 Emily J. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 23, 1825; d. Oct. 13, 1845, at Am-
herst; unm.
4044 Charles E. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 24, 1827; d. June 23, 1848, at Am-
herst; unm.
4045 Rachel J. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 2," 1829. +
4046 Mary Chester Pomeroy, b. July 9, 1831. +
4047 Susan M. Pomeroy, b. Feb. 25, 1834. +
4048 Adeliza J. Pomeroy, b. Nov. 18, 1837 ; d. May 6, 1847, at Amherst.
4049 Francis Lyman Pomeroy, b. July 18, 1843. +
1981 SABRA POMEROY, {David, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. March 23, 1792, at Amherst, Mass.; m. Luther Nash.
jth gen. Child:
4050 Sarah Nash, m. Mr. Prince of Amherst. Res., Lincoln avenue,
Amherst.
1982 ALMARY POMEROY, {David, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. March 12, 1794; m. Levi Dickinson.
yth gen. Child:
4051 Levi Dickinson. Res., South Hadley, Mass.
1984 DAVID POMEROY, {David, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. July 2, 1799; m. (1) Mary Atkinson; m. (2) Ahnina; he d.
1893, Amherst, Mass.
yth gen. Child:
4052 David Pomeroy. +
1985 MARIA POMEROY, {David, Simeon, Samuel, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Jan. 16, 1802; m. Lewis Bartlett; she d. at Hadley, Mass.
7th gen. Children:
4053 Daniel Bartlett of Amherst.
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4054 David Bartlett of Chicago.
4055 Dau. Bartlett, m. James P. Smith of Amherst.
1995 EBEXEZER POMEROY, (Ebeneser, Ebeneser, Eldad, Caleb,
Elhceed), b. June 29, 1772, at Southampton, Mass.; m. about 1794,
Violatra Thayer, b. July 7, 1773, at Southampton, d. Feb. 15, 1848,
at Strongsville, Ohio; he d. at Strongsville (to which town he had
moved from Otisco, N. Y.,) June 14, 1835.
7//t gen. Children:
4056 Walter Pomeroy, b. about 1797; d. 1877, in Oregon City, Oregon.
4057 Lorencv Pomerov, b. 1800; m. Elisha Coltrin; d. Feb. 8, 1823.
4058 Violatra Pomeroy, b. July 7, 1801. +
4059 Ebenezer Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1803. +
4060 Alaxson Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1805. +
4061 Morris Pomeroy, bp. Aug. 22, 1807. +
4062 Dr. Calvin Thayer Pomeroy, b. Nov. 15, 1809. +
4063 Lucy Pomeroy, b. 1811. +
1997 CAPT. STEPHEN POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Eldad,
Caleb, Eltweed), b. Aug. 6, 1775, at Southampton, Mass.; m. Jan.
20, 1805, Polly Clapp, b. Oct. 22, 1785, d. Dec. 24, 1852, dau. of
Perez Clapp and Mary Strong. The day after their wedding the
Captain and his bride set out from Southampton in a sled drawn
by oxen for their new home, in Otisco, N. Y., which was at that
time regarded as the far west. It took two weeks to reach the
end of their journey. During the war of 1812, Capt. Stephen
Pomeroy raised and equipped a company of militia at his own
expense; he served the state and government effectually through-
out a long life. He d. at Otisco, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1863.
7th gen. Children, b, at Otisco, N. Y.:
4064 Polly Pomeroy, b. May 3, 1806. +
4065 Fanny Pomerov, b. May 4, 1808. +
4066 Stephen Uwight Pomeroy, b. Dec. 28, 1810; d. Oct. 11, 1820.
4067 Rev. Lemuel Strong Pomeroy, b. Feb. 1, 1812. 4-
4068 James Clark Pomeroy, b. July 21, 1814. +
4069 Theodore Pomeroy, b. July 1, 1816; d. Jan. 15. 1817.
4070 Dr. Theodore Clapp Pomeroy, b. Nov. 6, 1817. +
4071 Clarissa Pomeroy, b. May 9, 1820. +
4072 Stephen Dwight Pomeroy, b. Feb. 10, 1822. +
4073 Loul<;e Ann Pomeroy, b. Nov. 3, 1825; d. Aug. 17, 1830.
1999 HOSEA POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Eldad, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Aug. 5, 1780, at Southampton, Mass.; m. Aug. 9, 1801,
Sally Rust, dau. of Lieut. Lemuel and Azuba (Kinsley) Rust. He
moved to New York State, and d. at Onondaga, June 5, 1819.
yth gen. Child:
4074 Hunt Pomeroy, b. 1802. +
2000 REV. THADDEUS POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Eldad,
Caleb, Eltweed), b. Feb. 28, 1782, at Southampton, Mass.; grad-
(SntraUisg of tlyr Pomrrog Jamilg 302
uate from Williams College, ISIO; it is said that he m. a Miss
Bigelow, but that has not been determined. He lived in Gorham,
Me., for a time, going thence to DeWitt, Onondaga county, N. Y.,
where he d. April 14, 1868.
Yth gen. ChUd:
4075 Henry Bigelow Pomeroy, b. 1843 ; d. 1857, at DeW'itt, N. Y.
2001 LIBBEUS POMEROY, {Ebenezer, Ebenecer, Eldad, Caleb, Bit-
weed), b. Aug. 10, 1784; m. Nov. 29, 1806, Sophia Parks. Lived
at Middleburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1872.
/th gen. Children:
4076 Nelson Pomeroy, b. about 1813. +
4077 Thaddeus Pomerov, b. 1815; d. about 1856; unm.
4078 Esther Pomeroy, b. 1817. +
4079 Chauncev Clark Pomeroy, b. 1819. +
4080 Sophia Pomeroy, b. about 1821. +
4081 Chloe Pomeroy, b. about 1823. +
2001 TIMOTHY POMEROY, (Timothy, Ebenezer, Eldad, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Aug. 13, 1780; m. Feb. 4, 1810, Hannah Lyman Clapp,
b. Aug. 11, 1792, d. Oct. 20, 1880; he d. 1828, Florida, N. Y. They
also resided in Otisco and Buffalo.
7th gen. Children:
4082 Henrietta Lemira Pomeroy, b. Dec. 4, 1810. +
4083 Watson Young Pomeroy, b. March 16, 1813. +
4084 Rev. Timothy Lyman Pomeroy, b. Sept. 16, 1815. +
4085 Emerson Clapp Pomeroy, b. March 10, 1818. +
4086 Angelina B. Pomeroy, b. March 20, 1820. +
4087 Worcester E. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 9, 1822; d. June 18, 1826.
4088 Eveline Pomeroy, b. Sept. 6, 1824; m. Sanford B. Collins of En-
field, Mass.; woolen blanket manufacturer; she d. in Chicago, 111.,
in 1881 ; s. p.
4089 Worcester E. Pomeroy, b. Oct. 4, 1826. +
2006 SUBMIT POMEROY, {Timothy, Ebene::er, Eldad, Caleb, Elt-
weed), bp. Nov. 22, 1783; m. Nov. 5, 1809, Dea. Walter Bates, b. in
1783, d. Oct. 15, 1859; she d. Oct., 1842.
Jth gen. Children:
4090 Philander Bates.
4091 Dea. Timothy Bates, b. Oct. 4, 1815, at Southampton; m. (1)
1837, Louisa Loomis, b. April, 181 5^, d. 1840, dau. of John Loomis
and Rebecca Gillette; he m. (2) in 1840, Catherine E. Lyman; m.
(3) in 1846, Betsey G. Morley; m. (4) Jan. 28, 1856, in Deer-
field, Aurelia Phelps, b. Jan. 30, 1821, d. Feb. 3, 1888, dau. of
Timothy Allen Phelps and Thankful Cleveland.
4092 Walter Moseley Bates.
2007 KEZIAH POMEROY, {Timothy, Ebeneser, Eldad, Caleb, Eli-
weed), bp. April 17, 1785; m. Aug. 6, 1804, Zenas Frary, b. May 2,
393 i^txtlf dtmrutian - (Half b
1777, d. Nov. 4, 1848, son of Obadiah Frary, Jr., (who was killed
and scalped by Indians near Fort Edward, N. Y., in 1777, while
serving in the War of the Revolution), and Thankful Miller. She
d. March 11, 1872.
yth gen. Children:
4093 Obadiah Frary, b. Jan. 20, 1806; m. Oct. 10, 1850, Maria M.
Rice, b. April 15, 1819, d. Dec. 6, 1851; he m. (2) April 26, 1857,
Louise T. Jenks, b. March 22, 1828, d. Dec. 9, 1910, Springfield,
Mass. ; he d. Oct. 28, 1880, Springfield. +
4094 Anna Thankful Frary, b. Dec. 18, 1813; m. Feb. 25, 1836,
Ruben W. Hatfield of Granby, Mass., d. Dec. 8, 1870; she d.
Sept. 26, 1849. +
4095 Delania Kesiah Frary, b. Aug. 25, 1816; m. May 8, 1842,
Thomas M. Nash of South Hadley, Mass., b. Oct. 27, 1812, d.
Dec. 25, 1893; she was living (1911) with her dau. Amie at South
Hadley. +
4096 Dorcas Pomeroy Frary, b. Feb. 12, 1819; m. June 2, 1843, Hast-
ings A. Moore of Montgomery, Mass., who d. Feb. 11, 1862; she
d. Oct. 1, 1909. +
4097 Zenas Spencer Frary, b. May 23, 1821 ; m. April 23, 1846, Laura
Susan Pinney, b. April 16, 1826; he d. Dec. 21, 1853; she m. (2)
Jan. 11, 1856, S. Dwight Robinson; she d. Dec. 31, 1866. +
4098 Noble Danforth Frary, b. June 2, 1823; m. Oct. 30, 1845, Mary
Kendall, b. Nov. 12, 1823, d. Oct. 1, 1876; he d. Oct. 11, 1878. +
8th gen. Child of Obadiah and Afaria M. Frary, (4093):
4099 William Rice Frary, b. Nov. 14, 1851; m. (1) Feb. 20, 1879,
Zetta Parker, who d. April 6, 1879; he m. (2) June 25, 1890,
Grace Call.
Children of Anna T. and Reuben W. Hatfield, (4094):
4100 Edwin Orlando Hatfield, b. June 28, 1839; drowned May 7, 1847.
4101 Anna Lorain Hatfield, b. April 25, 1849; d. Jan. 30, 1850.
Children of Delania K, and Thomas M. Nash, (409^):
4102 George Varnum Nash, b. May 16, 1845; military service in the
Civil War with the 52d Mass. Vol. Inf. ; d. in the service April
25, 1863.
4103 Amie Anna Nash, b. May 7, 1857; m. April 2, 1879, Arthur C.
Pomeroy (7392), son of Waitstill Pomeroy and Almira Betham
Searle; he d. Sept. 7, 1879, at South Hadley, Mass.
Children of Dorcas P. and Hastings A, Moore, (4096):
4104 Laurinda Amelia Moore, b. July 11, 1844; m. Sept. 1, 1881,
Mayhew Louden of Jonesville, Wis.
4105 Ophelia Ann Moore, b. July 25, 1846; m. Nov. 27, 1867, Horace
R. Bliss, who d. April 30, 1901 ; she d. Feb. 3, 1873.
4106 Katie Rozel Moore, b. Oct. 21, 1850; m. Sept. 16, 1880, James
Moore, who d. May 4, 1905 ; she d. Dec. 27, 1888.
Child of Zenas S. and Laura 5". Frarv, (4097):
4107 Ella Laura Frary, b. Feb. 9, 1847 ;'m. April 15, 1873, John
Kelsey.
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Children of Noble D. and Mary Frary, (40^):
4108 Herbert Kendall Frary, b. May 12, 1846 ; d. 1848.
4109 OssiAN Danforth Frary, b. June 6, 1850; m. Dec. 25, 1872,
Melissa Reed.
4110 Adella Dorcas Frary, b. Dec. 14, 1852; m. May 5, 1873, J. Am-
brose Freeman.
4111 Anna Louise Frary, b. Nov. 26, 1858; m. May 8, 1879, Dr. O.
A. Pelton.
2008 RICHARD POMEROY, {Timothy, Ebeneser, Eldad, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Jan. 10, 1789; m. March 19, 1812, Aruah Pomeroy
(3673), b. 1791, d. Oct. 1, 1846, dau. of Ira and Experience
(Pomeroy) Pomeroy; he m. (2) Jan. 6, 1848, Lydia Baker Dan-
forth, dau. of Joseph Danforth and wife Betsey Baker, b. Jan.
27, 1805, d. Aug. 11, 1853; m. (3) Mrs. L. Knapp. He went to
Otisco, thence to Onondaga, N. Y., where he d. Jan. 3, 1866.
ph gen. Children, all by ist wife:
4112 Flavius Pomeroy, b. Jan. 18, 1813. +
4113 Anna Pomeroy, b. July 31, 1814; m. Hon. Samuel Clark Pomeroy
(3775), b. Jan. 3, 1816, son of Samuel Pomeroy and Dorcas Burt;
she d. 1844.
4114 Sylvester Pomeroy, b. Feb. 28, 1817; m. Sept. 2, 1840, Sarah
Winegar, who d. Sept. 24, 1844; he d. July 4, 1846.
4115 Mariani Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1820; d. Dec. 14, 1843.
4116 Phebe Strong Pomeroy, b. Sept. 3, 1822. +
4117 Oscar Pomeroy, b. June 5, 1824; d. March 13, 1844.
4118 Rosalia Pomeroy, b. July 17, 1826; d. Dec. 11, 1886.
4119 George Pomeroy, b. Jan. 28, 1830; m. June 21, 1868, Adeline
Wilson (widow) ; he d. Nov. 28, 190(5.
4120 Edward Pomeroy, b. April 23, 1832. +
2009 REV. MED AD POMEROY, {Timothy, Ebeneser, Eldad, Caleb,
Eltweed), b. April 6, 1792; graduate of Williams College, 1817;
student of divinity at Auburn, N. Y. His father d. before he was
bom, and his mother before he was seven years old, never having
a home until after his marriage, May 19, 1819, to Lilly Maxwell
of Otisco, N. Y., who was b. March 23, 1797, d. Nov. 27, 1857;
after graduating, he taught in the Academy at Aurora, N. Y. He
was settled at Cayuga Bridge six years, at Eldridge eight years, at
Wellsburg two years, and at Otisco five years. In 1861 he removed
to Albany, N. Y., to be near his son, the Honorable Theodore
Medad; he d. June 20, 1867.
Jth gen. Children:
4121 Anna Lilly Pomeroy, b. March 10, 1820. +
4122 Sybilla Maxwell Pomeroy, b. July 27, 1821; unm.
4123 Henry Burt Pomeroy, b. Feb. 10, 1823. +
4124 Hon. Theodore Medad Pomeroy, b. Dec. 31, 1824. +
4125 Frances Louise Pomeroy, b. Oct. 27, 1826. +
4126 Charles Seymour Pomeroy, b. Nov. 21, 1828; m. April 21, 1868,
395 i^ixtlf (grttrratiott - (Sakb
Mary Van Wormer, b. Sept. 13, 1836, dau. of Isaac and Susan
Van Wormer of Utica, N. Y. ; s. p.
4127 William Frederick Pomeroy, b. July 19, 1830. 4-
4128 Mary Angeline Pomeroy, b. Oct. 13, 1832; d. May 23, 1873; unm.
4129 Harriet Jane Pomeroy, b. Feb. 18, 1835. +
2012 TITUS POMEROY, {Titus, Ebcneser, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
h. Sept. 5, 1783, at Roxbury, Mass.; m. Nancy Mayo.
yth gen. Children:
4130 Titus Pomeroy, b. July 26, 1806. +
4131 Mary Jane Pomeroy.
2013 REV. JESSE POMEROY, (Titus, Ebeneser, Eldad, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. Aug. 27, 1785, at Norwich, Mass.; m. March 28, 1809,
Polly Salmon, who d. at Winslow, 111., April 2, 1881 ; he d. there
Sept. 14, 1878, ae. 93. He was one of the old fashioned Methodist
preachers, who spent the first years of his itineracy in traveling
over the rough roads of the Catskill Mountains, in the state of
New York; and preaching in log school houses to the inhabitants
of that sparsely populated region. Most of his ministerial life
was spent in Central New York State. He was a member of the
Oneida Conference, in which he held a superannuated relation at
the time of his death. Write: ''Blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord."
7th gen. Children:
4132 Theodore Pomeroy, b. Dec. 24, 1809; d. Dec. 26, 1832; unm.
4133 Jesse Pomeroy, M.D., b. Feb. 8, 1812. +
4134 Emily Pomeroy, b. April 24, 1814. +
4135 Catherine Pomeroy, b. Dec. 18, 1817. +
4136 William Salmon Pomeroy, b. Aug. 30, 1819. +
4137 Horace Emory Pomeroy, b. April 7, 1822. +
4138 Welthia Pomeroy, b. July 4, 1825. +
2016 QUARTUS pomeroy, (Titus, Ebenecer, Eldad, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. July 20, 1794, at Norwich, Mass.; while a boy he went
to Rensselaer Co., N. Y. ; m. (1) 1815, at Sand Lake, N. Y., Sabra
White, b. Sept. 14, 1793, d. Nov. 12, 1818, dau. of Jacob White;
he m. (2) July 30, 1820, Sarah Tifft, b. June 10, 1794, d. Aug. 10.
1869, dau. of Joseph Tifft; he d. Feb. 12, 1870; he was a giant
in stature and strength, and noted for his determination of char-
acter and sterling integrity; both d. at West Stephentown, N. Y.
Res., West Stephentown, N. Y.
yth gen. Children by ist wife:
4139 Alonzo Pomeroy, b. Jan. 6, 1816. +
4140 Emily Pomeroy, b. Jan. 22, 1817. +
4141 Julia Pomeroy, b. Aug. 27, 1818; d. Nov. 12, 1818.
Children by 2d wife:
4142 Lorenzo Dow Pomeroy, b. May 6, 1821. +
4143 Hannah Vary Pomeroy, b. Feb. 9, 1823; d. Sept. 2, 1825.
CSntraUigg of tt^t Pomrriig JarnUg 3dC
4144 Jason L. Pomeroy, b. March 23, 1825. +
4145 Harmon Pomeroy, b. Dec. 23, 1827. +
4146 Mary Jane Pomeroy, b. March 6, 1830. +
4147 Sabra Pomeroy, b. Sept. 19, 1833; d. Aug. 23, 1835.
4148 Abigail Pomeroy, b. Feb. 11, 1836; d. Dec. 7, 1842.
4149 Infant, b. and d. Sept. 20, 1839.
2018 MILTON POMEROY, (Titus, Ebeneser, Eldad. Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Oct. 28, 1799, at Norwich, Mass.; m. in 1820, at Stephentown,
N. Y., Zilpah Huntington, b. July 18, 1796, at New Canaan, Mass.,
d. March 4, 1866; he d. Nov., 1887, at Stephentown, N. Y.
^th gen. Children, b, at Stephentown, N, Y.:
4150 Louisa Pomeroy, b. in 1822. -f
4151 Luther Pomeroy, b. June, 1824. +
4152 Sbmantha M. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 7, 1834. +
2051 ELISHA POMEROY, (Jacob, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Sept. 23, 1780; in. Nov. 26, 1801, Esther Strong, b. Sept 23,
1781, d. June 18, 1847, dau. of Waitstill Strong and Rhoda Clark;
he d. April 14, 1843.
7th gen. Children, b. at Southampton, Mass.:
4153 Elisha Linus Pomeroy, b. Aug. 28, 1802. +
4154 Esther Maria Pomeroy, b. Oct. 1, 1804; d. April 17, 1814.
4155 Linus Milton Pomeroy, b. April 25, 1807. +
4156 PENiNAH Pomeroy, b. in 1808; d. in infancy.
4157 Theodore Pomeroy, b. in 1809; m. Ann Mowry; he d. Feb. 4,
1839.
4158 Apphia Pomeroy, b. in 1812. +
4159 Waitstill Strong Pomeroy, b. Sept. 4, 1814. +
4160 Esther Maria Pomeroy, b. Oct. 5, 1816; m. June 11, 1834, Jona-
than Casewell Slack of Northampton, Mass., b. Jan. 18, 1811, d.
Aug. 14, 1858; she m. (2) March 22, 1860, Josiah Clark of West-
hampton; they adopted a child, Eveline Slack; Esther d. in 1866,
Southampton.
2054 THANKFUL POMEROY, (Jacob, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Elt-
weed), b. 1784, at Southampton, Mass.; m. in 1802, Bela Searle,
who d. July 20, 1857, son of Zophar Searle and Anna Clark; she
d. April 28, 1862. Res., on Gorse Hill, Huntington, Mass.
Jth gen. Children:
4161 Dorcas Searle, b. 1803; d. young.
4162 Lucetta Searle, b. Sept. 23, 1805; m. Nov. 29, 1827, John B.
Hall ; had three children. Res., Staten Island, N. Y.
4163 Thankful Searle, b. Aug. 8, 1808; m. May 17, 1829, John B.
Chamberlain. +
4164 Bela Pomeroy Searle, b. July 12, 1812; m. Nov. 13, 1839, Ju-
liette Warner of Northampton; he d. in Belchertown, Mass. +
4165 William E. Searle, b. Feb. 17, 1815; m. Nov. 27, 1843, Lucy
M. Wing.
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4166 Apollos Dickinson Searle, b. March 22, 1818; m. March 1,
1845, Sarah J. Dilks. Res., Staten Island. +
4167 Vinson C. Searle, b. Dec. 20, 1824; resided in Westfield, Mass.
4168 Dorcas Searle, b. about 1830; d. 1832.
8th gen. Children of Thankful and John B, Chamberlain, (4163):
4169 Oranzo S. Chamberlain, b. April, 1833; d. in the army during
the Civil War, at Knoxville, Tenn., April 4, 1864; a true-hearted
Christian soldier in the great cause.
4170 Edward \V. Chamberlain, b. Jan. 24, 1835; d. Dec. 14, 1852.
4171 Hannah Chamberlain, b. Jan. 28, 1838; d. Dec. 22, 1855.
4172 Nancy Chamberlain, b. Sept 18, 1843; d. March 22, 1884.
4173 Henry A. Chamberlain, b. Jan. 11, 1849; m. and had three sons.
Children of Bela P. and Juliette Searl, (4164):
4174 Mary Pomeroy Searl, b. April 4, 1847; m. Oct. 4, 1870, John
B. Searl. Res., West Brighton, Staten Island.
4175 Charles Bela Searl, b. 1850; m. 1881, Genevieve Woolcott, son
and dau. live at Westfield, Mass.
4176 Lorenzo Whitney Searl, b. 1852; gr. of Amherst College, 1873;
teacher at St. Johns school at Sing-Sing, N. Y., many years.
4177 Susan Thankful Searl, b. 1856; m. 1875, John F. Merrill of
Athol, Mass. Res., Athol, Mass.
There were other children.
Children of Apollos D, and Sarah /. Searl, (4166):
4178 William E. Searl, b. 1847; d. soon.
4179 John B. Searl, b. May 18, 1849; m. Oct. 4, 1870, Mary Pomeroy
Searl, (4174).
4180 Charles D. Searl, b. 1854; d. ae. 17 years.
2055 ISAAC POMEROY, {Isaac, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltiveed), b,
Nov. 4, 1781, at Southampton, Mass.; m. March 8, 1810, Mary
Spaulding, b. April 17, 1785, at Uxbridge, Mass., d. March 8,
1839, dau. of Rev. Josiah Spaulding and Mary Williams; he d.
June 30, 1815. He was a surveyor and civil engineer.
Jth gen. Children:
4181 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. 1811; d. 1814.
4182 Mary Ann Pomeroy. b. 1814; m. in 1831, David Pomeroy (1892),
son of Gideon Pomeroy and Irene Brown. +
2056 LUTHER POMEROY, {Isaac, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Feb. 15, 1783; m. April 4, 1811, Abigail Glazier, b. 1790, d.
Sept. 25, 1848; he d. Feb. 5, 1846.
Jth gen. Children, b, at Easthampton, Mass,:
4183 Deborah Pomeroy, b. Sept. 21, 1812. +
4184 LucENA Pomeroy, b. Sept. 2, 1814. +
4185 Luther Pomeroy, b. 1816. +
4186 Amelia Pomeroy, b. Aug. 7, 1817. +
4187 L.\URA Pomeroy, b. June 10, 1819. +
4188 Caroline Pomeroy, b. Feb., 1825 ; d. May 5, 1826.
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REV. RLTUS POMEROY. (Isaac, Elislia, Eldad, Caleb, Bit-
weed), b. Aug. 17, 1784; graduate, Williams College, 1808, and
was present at the famous prayer-meeting under the hay-stack,
which is said to have given birth to the American Foreign Mis-
sions. After completing his college course he studied theology
with Rev. Theophilus Packard, at Shelbume Falls, and was licensed
to preach by the P'ranklin Association in 1809. He was first settled
in Salisbury, \'t. ; five years later he labored in South Deerfield,
where he organized a church, which was incorporated as a re-
ligious society by the Legislature, receiving the fellowship of
neighljoring churches. During the winter of 1818-19 he assisted
the Rev, Mr. Williams of Northampton in revival meetings. He
was installed as pastor at Chester, Mass., in 181*>'. and throui^hout
his work of eight years there remaikable success attended him by
way of additions to the church and the baptism of infants, 283
in numl>er, many heads of families coming into the church who
brought groups of children with them. His last pastorate was in
C)tss, Mass., where he continued to reside after retiring from
active pastoral labor. He m. Oct. 20, 1811, Asenath Edwards, b.
May 14, 1783, in Southampton, d. Sept. 15, 1853, dau. of Luther
Edwards and Sarah Sheldon; he d. June 22, 1867.
yih gen. Children:
4189 Asenath Edwards Pomeroy, b. Sept. 13, 1814. +
4190 RuFu.s I^RENzo ToRREY PoMEROY, b. Sept. 19, 1816.
4191 Luther Pomeroy, b. about 1818.
4192 Sarah Ank Sheldon Pomeroy, b. March 30, 1820; d. July 17,
1842.
4193 Theodore Hinsdale Pomeroy, b. Aug. 4, 1824, at Chester, Mass.;
d. April 9, 1843.
2061 MOSES POMEROY, {Isaac, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed), b.
Oct. 22, 1791; m. Oct. 5, 1815, Sophia Harrison of Westfield, b.
Sept 12, 1794, d. Jan. 17, 1839, dau. of Reuben Harrison and
Nancy Baldwin; he m. (2) June 8. 1845, Abigail Thorp, b. March,
1815, dau. of Thomas Thorp and Esther Bartlett of Southamp-
ton; he d. Dec. 25, 1858; Abigail m. (2) David Kelton of North-
ampton; she d. April 27, 1898.
7/A gen. Children:
4194 Sophia Bartholomew Pomeroy, b. Sept. 22, 1816. +
4195 Susan Melissa Pomeroy, b. Aug. 3, 1822; m. Jan. 8, 1846,
Augustus Joseph Holcomb; she d. about 1890, in North Carolina.
4196 Moses Whitman Pomeroy, b. May 6, 1828; he was one of the
first settlers of Kansas; he d. at Lawrence, and his remains were
the first to be buried in the Pomeroy Cemetery at that place.
ANGOLUS POMEROY, (Isaac, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Jan. 13, 1796; m. (1) May 17, 1820, Sarah Thorp, b. 1799, d.
Jan. 13, 1850, dau. of Thomas Thorp and Esther Bartlett; he m.
(2) June 2, 1851, Emily Park, b. March 28, 1802, A Sept 12,
1874, dau. of Minor Park and Rhoda Willard; he d. March 16,
1862.
yth gen. Children:
4197 Isaac E. Pomeroy, b. 1821, in Southampton; d. Oct. 20, 1843.
4198 Jerome Judson Pomeroy, b. Sept. 22, 1826. +
2080 DAMARIS POMEROY, (Asaliei Elisha, Eldad, Caleb. Eltweed),
b. May 10, 1793, in Southampton, Mass.; m. May 21, 1812, Capt.
Arunah Searle, b. Aug. 15, 1788, in Southampton, d. Jan. 6, 1831,
son of Gideon Searle and Louisa Loomis; she d. Sept. 17, 1863.
yth gen. Children:
4199 Mercy Ann Searle, b. July 31, 1815; m. April 5, 1837, Benoni
Bliss Bissell, b. July 15, 1813, Chesterfield, son of Solomon Bissell
and Tirzah Pierce of East Windsor, Conn. +
4200 Emily Lemira Searle, b. April 10, 1825, Southampton; m. April
7, 1841, Ralph Bissell, son of Solomon Bissell and Tirzah Pierce
of East Windsor, b. Aug. 19, 1815, Chesterfield, d. July 5, 1896;
she d. March 10, 1895. +
4201 Damaris Searle, b. in Southampton; d. May 11, 1834.
8th gen. Children of Mercy A. and Benoni B. Bissell, (4199):
4202 John H. Bissell, b. Nov. 1, 1841 ; m. Dec. 3, 1863, Julia A. Rich-
ardson. Res., West Stockbridge, Mass.
4203 Henry J. Bissell, b. Dec. 24, 1856; m. Sept., 1879, Ella M.
Torrey. Res., West Stockbridge, Mass.
Children of Emily L. and Ralph Bissell, (4200):
4204 Charles Rollix Bissell, b. March 28, 1842: gr. Williams College;
d. Nov. 5, 1861.
4205 Clarence Eugene Bissell, b. Nov. 28, 1854: m. April 5, 1882,
Emily S. Rawling. Res., West Stockbridge.
4206 Clayton Arthur Bissell, b. May 15, 1856; m. Res., West
Stockbridge.
2081 ASAHEL POMEROY, {Asahel, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Oct. 29, 1794, in Southampton: m. pub. March 15, 1852, with
Abbie Stoughton Taylor, b. Feb. 26, 1818, in Buckland, Mass., d.
Oct. 14, 1886, dau. of Henry Taylor and Eunice Stoughton; he d.
July 17, 1856, in Southampton. Farmer.
yth gen. Children:
4207 Abby Ophelia Pomeroy, b. March 7, 1853, in Southampton; d.
Nov. 30, 1861.
4208 Emma Lx)Uise Pomeroy, b. Sept. 12, 1855, in Southampton; m.
Sept. 6, 1899, Rufus Covell, b. April 16, 1850, in Buckland, Mass.,
son of Lewis Covell and Lucy Williams. Res., Sherboum Falls,
Mass.
20S2 CAPT. ARETAS POMEROY, (Asahel, Elisha, Eldad, Caleb, Bit-
weed), h. Nov. 22, 1796, in Southampton; m. Oct. 2, 1827, Re-
becca Clapp, b. Nov. 6, 1804, d. Aug. 9, 1892, dau. of Nathaniel
Hetuniags of tiff fbMrrog JTamilg 400
Chp^ ar.d Rdjecca S«ar!e; he was Captain of the Old Town
Training Band; he d. Oct, 5, 1873.
7/A gen, CIvldren:
42D9 Abi'^atl I^^li^a Pomeroy, h. Sepc 25, 1S31, in Southampton; m.
in 1^9, So>/fr.on V.'olcott, b. in Southan^pton, 1^10: d. there; she
d. s, p. Mar-h 12, 1865.
BEULAH POMEROY. (Joseph, Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltureed).
h, Oct, 25, 1784; m. in 1>^13. William Witt, b. OcL. 17S4; (his
father was in the Revolution;; she d« in W'orthington, Mass., in
1868.
2th gen. Children:
4210 Lucy Pomer/a' Witt, m. Artemus Weeks. +
4211 Hl'LDai! Witt, b. Jan. 4, 1816, in Easthampton, Mass.; d. Oct.
21, 1900.
4212 Dolly Witt, b. ; m. Xapoleon Bonaparte Prouty. +
4213 Mary Witt, b. Jan. 8, 1818; m. Aug. 24, 1835, Isaac Wamer
Prr/utv, b. Oct. 6, 1809, d. May 15, 1882; she d. Mav 13. 1862. +
4214 Electa Witt, b. May 3, 1825; m. June 7, 1849, Hiram D. Pom-
eroy (4284), b. April 20, 1826, in Montgomery, Mass. +
4215 William Witt, d. ae. 21, unm.
4216 Abner W. Witt, b.: m. Eunice Marble; d. Aug. 11, 1848. +
4217 Daniel Witt, m. Ann Goodrich.
8th gen. Children of Lucy P. and Artemus Weeks, (4210):
4218 George Weeks. 4220 Adelia Weeks.
4219 Augusta Weeks. 4221 Aticus Weeks.
Children of Dolly and N. B. Prouty, (4212):
A222 Waldo Prouty. 4224 Sarah Prouty.
4223 Otis Prouty.
Children of Marv and Isaac IV. Proutv, (4213):
4225 Charles L. Prouty, b. Aug. 8, 1836; d. Sept. 2, 1837.
4226 John W. Prouty, b. Feb. 27, 1839; m. (1) Ann Lazake; m. (2)
Belle Dewar of Easthampton; d. s. p.
4227 Alice Prouty, b. May 11, 1847; d. Oct. 15, 1864; unm.
4228 Olive Huldah Prouty, b. Oct. 24, 1854; m. Jan. 15, 1878, Joseph
F, Morrison of Easthampton, Mass.
Children of Abner W, and Eunice Witt, (4216):
4229 Emma Elizabeth Witt, b. Aug. 9, 1849; m. May 5, 1868, Wil-
liam David Sanderson, b. Jan. 23, 1843, d. Sept 1, 1903.
4230 Edna W. Witt, b. about 1851.
4231 Eunice E. Witt, b. about 1853; m. Moses Wendell Fisk.
4232 Frank Abner Witt, b. Feb. 8, 1855; m. March 23, 1881, Alice
S. Phelps; s. p.
4233 Harry Silas Witt, b. March 18, 1857; m. Eliza Damon.
4234 Mary Eno Witt, b. Dec. 15, 1860; m. George W. Geer.
JOSEPH POMEROY, {Joseph, Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed).
b. Dec. 30, 1786; m. March 8, 1810, Miranda Searle, b. May 2,
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1788, d. Jan. 19, 1866, dau. of Job Searle and Esther Matthews;
he d. June 2, 1843, at Washington, Mass.
ytli gen. Children, b. at IVashington, Mass,:
4235 Alanson Searle Pomeroy, b. June 15, 1811. +
4236 Joseph Rood Pomeroy, b. Dec. 3, 1812. +
4237 Dorcas Pomeroy, b. Dec. 14, 1814. +
4238 Miranda Pomeroy. b. Dec. 8, 1816; d. Jan. 7, 1817.
4239 Henry Gardner Pomeroy, b. May 31, 1818. +
4240 Esther Amanda Pomeroy, b. Aug. 20, 1820. +
4241 Sylvester Clark Pomeroy, b. Aug. 30, 1822. +
4242 Diana Pomeroy, b. Jan. 7, 1825.
4243 Maria B. Pomeroy, b. June 6, 1826. +
2087 BARxNTEY POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b^ March 23, 1787; m. Oct. 31, 1812, Tirzah Clapp, b. March 23.
1790, d. in 1871, dau. of Roger Clapp and Sarah Strong; he d.
in 1829.
7th gen. Children:
4244 Sarah Ann Pomeroy, b. Oct. 24, 1813; m. in 1833, Dea. Amos
Holloday of Westfield.
4245 Louisa Pomeroy, b. Oct. 31, 1814, at Chelsea, Mass.; m. Nelson
Clark; she d. April 3, 1885.
4246 LovisA Pomeroy, (twin with Louisa), b. Oct. 31, 1814; m. John
Wheeler.
4247 Charles Clapp Pomeroy, b. May 24, 1818; went to New York
State.
4248 Lucy M. Pomeroy, b. April 17, 1820; drowned, 1829.
4249 Gratia Pomeroy, b. July 10, 1822; d. in infancy.
4250 Gratl\ a. Pomeroy. b. June 25, 1824; m. in 1842, Farrington
Bevis; m. (2) in 1870, David B. Healy; he d. Nov. 6, 1885, ae. 64.
4251 Tirzah Catherine Pomeroy, b. June 24, 1826; m. Clark Marble.
4252 Theodosia Pomeroy, b. Dec. 24, 1828; m. Samuel Hitchcock.
2090 ABNER POMEROY, {Joseph, Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. March 12, 1795, in Chester, Mass.; m. (1) Feb. 25, 1819, Betsey
Brant of Montgomery, Mass., who d. in 1830; he m. (2) Oct. 6,
1836, Hester Ann Rodgers, who d. in Sidney Center, Delaware
county, N. Y. ; he d. there Dec. 12, 1871.
/th gen. Children by ist wife:
4253 Henry Dwigiit Pomeroy, b. Sept. 2, 1820. +
4254 Welthy Elvira Pomeroy, b. Sept. 11, 1821; d. young.
4255 Betsey Pomeroy, b. Oct. 28, 1823; d. young.
4256 Horatio Seymour Pomeroy, b. Feb. 16, 1826. +
4257 Melvin Brant Pomeroy, b. Nov. 26, 1827. +
Children by 2d wife, b. in Sidney Center, N, Y.:
4258 James Abner Pomeroy, b. Oct. 3, 1837. +
4259 Calvin Hartson Pomeroy, b. Aug. 24, 1839. +
4260 Sarah Augusta Pomeroy, b. Dec. 6, 1840. +
4261 Edgar Alonzo Pomeroy, b. Oct. 4, 1842. +
4262 Mary Hester Pomeroy, b. April 1, 1844; d. June 19. 1869.
4263 Orvilla Phebe Pomeroy, b. Jan. 15, 1846; living in Sidney Cen-
ter, N. Y. ; unm.
4264 Betsey Rosalie Pomeroy, b. Feb. 11, 1848; d. Nov. 20, 1899.
4265 Harriet Amanda Pomeroy, b. March 2, 1850; d. March 3, 185?.
4266 Velma Josephine Pomeroy, b. June 11, 1852; d. Feb. 21, 1897.
4267 Eugene Adelbert Pomeroy, b. Sept. 1, 1854; d. Sept. 12, 1864.
4268 Frederick Theron Pomeroy, b. Aug. 1, 1856. +
4269 Frank Leslie Pomeroy, b. Sept. 11, 1858. +
4270 H.\TTiE Amanda Pomeroy, b. March 12, 1860; m. Dec. 27, 1882,
George A. Pomeroy, son of Orin Parks Pomeroy (4281) and wife
Eliza Linton.
2091 CLARK POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph, Eldad, Caleb. Eltweed).
b. 1797, in Montgomery, Mass.; m. April 5, 1820, Julianna Kag-
win, b. June 22, 1800, in Montgomery; he d. Aug. 23, 1849.
7th gen. Children:
4271 Amos Amandras Pomeroy, b. Jan. 27, 1821 ; d. May 27, 1821.
4272 Julianna Pomeroy, b. Nov. 16, 1822; m. in 1849, Ezra Gaylord
of Feeding Hills; she d. Feb. 17, 1853, Feeding Hills; son b.
Sept., 1852; d. P'eb. 7, 1853, Feeding Hills, Mass.
4273 Amos Watson Pomeroy, b. Aug. 6, 1826; d. March 28, 1840, W.
Springfield, Mass.
4274 Amandras Pomeroy, b. March 22, 1829 ; d. Sept. 30, 1839.
4275 RuFus Taylor Pomeroy, b. Dec. 25, 1831 ; d. April 14, 1832,
Holyoke, Mass.
4276 Edward Mosley Pomeroy, b. June 21, 1843. +
4277 Amasa Pomeroy.
2092 CHESTER POMEROY, (Joseph. Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. 1800, in Montgomery, Mass.; m. April 20, 1822, Phebe Kagwin,
b. Feb. 17, 1804, in Montgomery, d. June 26, 1888; he d. Oct. 26,
1887, in Sidney Center, N. Y.
^th gen. Children:
4278 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. Aug. 27, 1823. +
4279 Emerson Spencer Pomeroy, b. May 26, 1825, in Montgomery.
4280 Deborah S. Pomeroy, b. July 8, 1827. +
4281 Orin Parks Pomeroy, b. June 9, 1834. +
4282 Adelia Pomeroy, b. Oct. 13, 1837; m. Nov. 1, 1868, James Flint.
4283 Samuel E. Pomeroy, b. Dec. 25, 1845; m. Feb. 22, 1872, Susan
Smith.
2003 CALVIN POMEROY, (Joseph, Joseph, Eldad, Caleb, Eltweed),
b. Nov. 11, 1799; m. Jan. 27, 1825, Zipporah C. Moore, b. 1806, d.
Oct. 28, 1849; he d. Aug. 18, 1839.
ph gen. Children:
4284 Hiram D, Pomeroy, b. April 20, 1826. +
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4285 Calvin C. Pomeroy, b. June 21, 1827. +
4286 Edwin Orland Pomeroy, b. Jan. 25, 1829. +
4287 William Wallace Pomeroy, b. Aug. 30, 1831. +
4288 Melvina E. Pomeroy, b. July 28, 1833. 4-
4289 Theoren Pomeroy, b. Aug. 23, 1835. +
2101 EUNICE MILLER POMEROY, {Amasa, Joseph, Eldad, Caleb,
Eltweed), b. May 27, 1797, in Springfield, Mass.; m. June 11,
1816, Obial Stebbins, b. Dec 16, 1786, in Brimfield, Mass., d.
May 5, 1871, in Cuba, N. Y., son of Abner Stebbins and Abigail
Bacon; she d. March 7, 1851, in Collins, N. Y.
yth gen. Children:
4290 Harriet Atwood Stebbins, b. June 1, 1817; m. in 1837, Levi
L. Watcrhouse.
4291 Martha Pomeroy Stebbins, b. Nov. 17, 1818; m. Samuel T.
Wright.
4292 Laura Hitchcock Stebbins, b. Feb. 20, 1821; d. March 19, 1821.
4293 Charles Smith Stebbins, b. Dec. 20, 1822; m. June 26, 1849,
Grace Goulding, b. Sept. 11, 1825, in Sheridan, N. Y. Farmer.
Resided at Gowanda, N. Y. +
4294 CiiLOE Lamira Stebbins, b. Dec. 8, 1824; unm.
4295 Abigail Nichols Stebbins, b. and d. April, 1827.
4296 Susan Louise Stebbins, b. June 8, 1828; m. Sept 19, 1859, at
Collins, N. Y., William W. Ingraham; she d. at South Battle
Creek, Mich., July 31. 1885.
4297 Electa Elvira Stebbins, b. April 13, 1831 ; d. Nov., 1861.
4298 George B. Francis Stebbins, b. July 9, 1836; m. Mary Holmes;
he d. March 2. 1883.
4299 Abner Amasa Stebbins, b. Sept. 16, 1838; m. Ellen Lucy Mc-
Daniels, dau. of Leonard McDaniels and Lydia Howe. Residence,
Collins, N. Y. +
8th gen. Children of Charles S, and Grace Stebbins, (4293):
4300 Frank DeForest Stebbins, b. March 20, 1852.
4301 Mary Alice Stebbins, b. May 20, 1854.
4302 Fred Charles Stebbins, b. Jan. 25, 1857.
4303 Katie Grace Stebbins, b. June 9, 1859.
4304 Sidney L. Stebbins, b. May 5, 1865; m. Carrie Harris.
Children of Abner A. and Ellen L, Stebbins, (42^^):
4305 Hattie Maybell Stebbins, b. April 5, 1864; m. Mark A. Bailey.
4306 Nettie Electa Stebbins, b. July 22, 1865 ; m. George E. Morse.
4307 Alice Mary Stebbins, b. Dec. 29, 1866.
4308 Addie Grace Stebbins, b. May 8, 1870; m. Frank W. Moore.
4309 Florence Lillian Stebbins, b. June 1, 1875.
4310 Eunice L. Stebbins, b. March 20, 1881.
2104 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS POMEROY, {Richard, Joseph, Jo-
seph, Joseph, Eltweed), b. Jan. 8, 1806; m. Sept. 6, 1831, Pri-
scilla Noyes, b. May 12, 1811, d. Feb. 18, 1883.
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7//1 gr^w. Children: I
4311 Frederick Leach Pomeroy, b. July 2, 1832; d. March 2, 1844. I
4312 Walter Henry Pomeroy, b. July 16, 1834; m. Laura Skeels; d. '
s. p. '
4313 Edward Noyes Pomeroy, b. April 8, 1836. + I
4314 Maria Henry Pomeroy, b. June 16, 1839; m. John E. Oxward; i
she d. March 26, 1886. \
4315 Silas Herbert Pomeroy, b. July 8, 1841 ; d. Nov. 30, 1844. |
4316 Rachel Augusta Pomeroy, b. March 9, 1845; d. June 17, 1880. |
4317 Emma Florence Pomeroy. b. Nov. 14, 1848. i
4318 Norman Herbert Pomeroy, b. Sept. 17, 1851; m.
2105 ALEXANDER POMEROY. (Richard, Joseph, Joseph, Joseph.
Eltweed), b. Feb. 1, 1808; m. Oct. 1, 1835, Alniira Buckram; he
was lost at sea, Oct., 1837.
7//1 gen. Child:
4319 Adrianna Pomeroy.
2109 EBENEZER YORK POMEROY, {Richard, Joseph, Joseph, Jo-
seph, Eltweed), b. July 22, 1817; m. March 16, 1840. Abigail York.
yth gen. Children:
4320 Richard Pomeroy, b. Sept. 22, 1841. +
4321 William York Pomeroy, b. July 24, 1843. +
4322 Martha Woodbury Pomeroy, b. Feb. 15. 1849. +
4323 Eben Leach Pomeroy, b. Sept.- 14, 1851; m. April 5, 1884, Emma
Jane Skillings.
4324 Louis P. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 17, 1857. +
2110 MARTHA WOODBURY POMEROY, (Richard, Joseph, Joseph,
Joseph, Eltweed), b. June 4, 1820; m. May 31, 1846, Samuel G.
Davis.
yth gen. Child:
4325 George William Davis.
2111 CHARLES POMEROY. (Charles, Noah, Noah, Joseph, Eltivccdy
b. Nov. 20, 1774, Saybrook, New London Co., Conn.; m. Nov. 15,
1800, Sally McNeal, b. March 25, 1783, Pittstown, Rensselaer Co.,
N. Y., d. Feb. 14, 1841, Danube, Herkimer Co., N. Y. ; her father
was of Protestant parents, b. in the North of Ireland; her mother,
Nancy Vandercook, was of Holland-Dutch extraction. After the
death of his father, Charles Pomeroy lived with his grandfather
Noah, until his 16th year, and passed his life in Montgomery
and Herkimer counties; he d. Sept. 14, 1864, Danube, Herkimer
Co., N. Y.
7th gen. Children, six b, in Minden, four in Danube, N. Y,:
4327 Ann Eliza Pomeroy, b. July 31, 1802; d. Jan. 5, 1881, Mo-
hawk, N. Y.
4328 Maria Pomeroy, b. May 8, 1804; d. Aug. 10, 1821, at the home
of Flavel Clark, at Paines Hollow, Herkimer Co., N. Y.
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4329 Sally Pomeroy, b. Minden, Montgomery Co., N. Y. ; d. May 23,
1807, Minden.
4330 Charles Watrous Pomeroy, b. April 18, 1808. +
4331 Caroline Pomeroy. b. Jan. 14, 1811; d. Jan. 3, 1835, German
Flats, N. Y.
4332 Robert Henry Pomeroy, b. Sept. 24, 1814; d, Nov. 15, 1867,
Mohawk, N. Y.
4333 Melinda Pomeroy, b. Nov. 10, 1817; d. Oct. 3, 1837, German
Flats, N. Y.
4334 Jane Pomeroy, b. April 23, 1820; d. Aug. 17, 1841, New Ia)ndon,
(Illim), Herkimer Co., N. Y.
4335 Flavel Clark Pomeroy, b. Aug. 16, 1824; d. Dec. 21, 1901, San
Francisco, Cal.
4336 Sheldon Pomeroy, b. Feb. 4, 1829; d. Aug. 21, 1901, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.
2112 WATROUS POMEROY, {Charles, Noah, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. Nov. 6, 1776, at Saybrook, Conn.; itu Oct. 22, 1801,
Fanny Reeve, b. Sept. 20, 1783, d. Nov. 6, 1854, dau. of Israel
and Betsey Reeve; he d. about 1864-5. He was a soldier in the
war of 1812, and took an honorable part in the battle of Sackett's
Harbor, N. Y. ; his land warrant drew lot 55 at Sterling, N. Y.,
which was a valuable acquisition; while he was a carpenter by
trade, he kept the Willard Hotel in Auburn, N. Y.
yth gen. Children, b. in Auburn, N. Y.:
4337 Frances Ann Pomeroy, b. Nov. 22, 1803. +
4338 Eliza Jane Pomeroy, b. March 18, 1806. ■+-
4339 Col. Charles Watrous Pomeroy, b. March 8, 1808. +
4340 Henry Raimond Pomeroy, b. July 8, 1819. +
2114 HON. NOAH POM^EROY, (Charles, Noah, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. March 1, 1786, in Saybrook, Conn.; he was a posthumous
child, born shortly after his father's death, who had been a mer-
chant in Saybrook. The four elder children were taken and kindly
cared for by their grandfather, Noah Pomeroy, who was a man
of considerable standing and property in Colchester, Conn., but
Noah, of course, went with his mother, who moved to Meriden,
Conn. ; she contracted another marriage when Noah was five years
old. He lived with her and his step-father till he was ten years
old, when, penniless and with scarcely a knowledge of the English
alphabet, he began the world for himself. Eventually he learned
the tinsmith trade and soon established himself in business. He
ni. June 4, 1807, Mary Nancy Merriman, a descendant of Lieut.
Nathaniel Merriman, one of the first settlers of Wallingford,
Conn; m. (2) Miss Hanson. In 1818 he returned to Meriden,
Conn., and was among the first in the country to manufacture
japanned and ornamental tin ware. He was successful in life,
as we sav, and became a man of influence. In 1839 he re-
tired from mercantile business and spent his time in looking after
his farm. During his residence in Meriden he exercised a strong
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influence in its affairs. He held all offices within the gift of the
town; and the office of Justice of the Peace by appointment of
the State Legislature as long as that body possessed the power to
appoint. His knowledge of common law and his impartial judg-
ment may be estimated by the fact that of all the cases ever
brought before him an appeal from his decision was never car-
ried up. In 1832 he was elected a member of the House of Rep-
resentatives, and in 1837 he was chosen Senator from the Sixth
district, and in that capacity exerted his influence for the abolition
of the law which imprisoned for debt. When the Meriden Bank
was established in 1833, he was made one of the directors, and
in 1849 was chosen President of that institution, but soon resigned
the office. He was active in the organization and support of the
Universalist Church in Meriden, and his sons continued in sym-
pathy with it. He d. Nov. 23, 1868, at Meriden, Conn.
^tli gen. Children by ist wife:
4341 CoRXELiA PoMEROY, b. April 2, 1808; m. Aug. 22, 1827, Elias Y.
Ives, b. Jan. 7, 1800; she d. s. p. Nov. 27, 1827, at Meriden, Conn,
4342 Eliphalet Treadw.w Pomeroy, b. June 18, 1810. +
4343 Angelina Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1811. +
4344 Eliza Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1813; m. John S. Blake.
4345 Harriet Pomeroy, b. March 27, 1817. +
4346 Norman Warner Pomeroy, b. Sept. 22, 1819. +
4347 Eugenia De Crosby Pomeroy, b. July 3, 1821 ; m. James P. Stow
of Middleton, Ct. ; she d. s. p.
4348 Nancy Pomeroy, b. May 23, 1823; d. Feb. 1, 1828, at Meriden.
4349 Hon. Charles Pomeroy, b. Sept. 23, 1825. +
4350 James Tibbals Pomeroy, b. July 19, 1827. +
Children by 2d zvife:
4351 Harriet Pomeroy, b. May 6, 1858, Meriden, Conn; m. George B.
Foote; s. p.
4352 Cornelia Pomeroy, b. Dec. 15, 1859, Meriden, Conn.; d. Feb. 4,
1861.
2115 NOAH POMEROY, (Noah, Noah, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
Dec. 2, 1793; m. Lavinia Fisk.
jth gen. Children:
4353 Noah William Pomeroy, b. 1813; d. March 21, 1815.
4354 Noah S. Woodbridge Pomeroy, b. 1817; d. April 7, 1831.
2138 EUNICE GRANT POMEROY, {Daniel, Daniel, Noah, Joseph,
Eltweed)y b. March 2, 1775, at Coventry, Conn.; m. about 1792,
Dr. Ezekiel Porter, b. March 8, 1761, at Northampton, Mass., d.
Sept. 23, 1823, at Porter's Settlement, Davis county, Ind, son of
Dr. Hezekiah Porter and Hannah Warriner; she d. May 7, 1814,
at Rutland, Vt.
7th gen. Children:
4355 Daniel Pomeroy Porter, b. ; d. ae. 1 year.
4356 Daniel Pomeroy Porter, b. April 2, 1794, at Rutland, Vt; m.
402" ^vitlf dtmruilan - iastpif
Feb. 16, 1819, at Rutland, Lydia Gould, b. Oct. 5, 1796, at Rut-
land, d. March 24, 1863, at Greenville, Ind., dau. of Henry Gould
and Mary Stearns; he d. Feb. 7, 1866, at Greenville, Ind. +
4357 James Warriner Porter, b. Aug. 24, 1796, at Rutland; m. (1)
April 22, 1851, Mary Miller, who d. 1834; he m. (2) April 24,
1838, Jane Gunn.
4358 Julius Risley Porter, b. Dec. 19, 1799, at Rutland; m. Nov. 25,
1823, Elizabeth K. Berry of Merton's Court House, Ind.
4359 Eunice Grant Porter.
4360 Laura G. Porter, m. Thomas Prentice; she d. ae. 22 years.
4361 EzEKiEL Porter.
4362 Harriet E. Porter, d. ae. 28 years.
4363 Caroline M. Porter, m. Mr. Grover.
8th gen. Children of Daniel P, and Lydia Porter, (4356):
4364 Henry Ezekiel Porter, b. July 25, 1820, at Washington, Ind.;
ni. Nov. 28, 1843, at Paoli, Ind., Mary E. Brown.
4365 Mary Elizabeth Porter, b. at Greenville, Ind.; m. May 3, 1840,
J. F. Blossom.
4365.1 Laura Ann Porter, d. ae. 1 year.
4366 Laura Ann Porter, b. April 7, 1826; m. June 14, 1846, C. D.
Blossom of Greenville, Ind.
4367 Lydia Gould Porter, b. April 4, 1828; m. July 21, 1847, Samuel
Harlow of St. Louis, Mo.
4368 Ann Ross Porter, b. March 8, 1830; d. ae. 1 year.
4369 Clarissa Harlow Porter, b. Oct. 3, 1832, at Greenville, Ind.; m.
Sept. 14, 1851, at Greenville, Norman J. Coleman, b. May 16, 1827,
at Richfield Springs, N. Y., son of Hamilton Coleman and Nancy
Sprague. He obtained the degree of B.L., by grant of Louis-
ville Law University, 1849; founded "Coleman's Rural World,"
1853, of which he has been editor and proprietor ever since; dur-
hig the Civil War he was Lieut.-Col. of the 85th Enrolled Mis-
souri Militia; he was a member of the Missouri Legislature, 1866-
68; Lieutenant-Governor, 1874-76; United States Commissioner of
Agriculture, 1885-89, and in 1889 became the first Secretary of
Agriculture. She d. Dec. 18, 1863. +
4370 Daniel Pomeroy Porter, b. Oct. 8, 1834; d. young.
4371 Eliza Miriam Porter, b. July 31, 1836; m. (1) Frank M. Gwinn
m. (2) B. F. Norris ; she d. Sept. 9, 1905, at Odin, 111.
gth gen. Children of Clarissa H. and Norman /. Coleman, (4369)
4372 Chalmers Dwight Coleman, b. Aug. 8, 1853.
4373 Laura Coleman, b. Oct. 29, 1860, at St. Louis, Mo.; m. Oct. 1
1884, Hiram Shaw Liggett, b. April 4, 1859, at St. Louis, d. Dec
25, 1892, at San Antonio, Texas, son of John Edmunde and
Elizabeth (Galbraith) Liggett; she m. (2) April 27, 1897, at St
Louis, Hon. John Freemont Hill, b. Oct. 29, 1855, at Elliot, Me.
son of William and Miriam (Leighton) Hill; gr. Bowdoin Medical
School, M.D., 1877; Long Island College Hospital practice; Rep-
resentative, 1889-92; State Senator, 1893-96; Presidential Elector.
(&tmalaQ^ of tlfp pomrrog Jamtlg 40B
1896, member of the Governor's Council, 1899; Governor, 1901-
1905; publisher, (Vickery & Hill Publishing Co.) Augusta, Me.
4374 Francis Porter Coleman, b. June 14, 1862; d. Sept. 3, 1886.
2140 CLARISSA POMEROY, {Eleazer, Daniel, Noah. Joseph, Elt-
Zi'eed), h. Dec. 19, 1773, in Coventry, Conn.; m. June 10, 1800,
David Janes of Farmington, Conn.; m. (2) John Ripley; she d.
Feb. 10, 1809.
7/A gen. Child:
4375 John Ripley, who d. in Oswego, N. Y.
2142 ELEAZER POMEROY, (Eleaser, Daniel, Noah, Joseph, Bit-
weed), b. Oct. 4, 1776, in Coventry, Conn.; m. Sept. 24, 1800,
Ruth Hunt of Coventry, b. July 2, 1779, d. March 31, 1843; he d.
July 28, 1867.
7/A gen. Children:
4376 Alexander Hamilton Pomeroy, b. Nov. 11, 1804. +
4377 Son Pomeroy, d. in infancy.
4378 Henry Pomeroy, b. March 6, 1814; in 1831 he entered the sopho-
more class, Yale College, and was graduated in 1834; went to
Natchez, Miss., and taught school three years; later he returned to
Hartford, Conn., where he engaged in mercantile business, sub-
sequently removing to New York City, where he carried on a
grocery business almost ten years, having his residence on Staten
Island; he m. April 10, 1851, Jane Harris of New York City; he
d. Feb. 1, 1858; no issue.
4379 Eleazer Pomeroy, b. Jan. 6, 1817. +
4380 George Pomeroy, b. March 3, 1819. +
4381 Daniel Pomeroy, b. June 25, 1822. +
2143 WEALTHY POMEROY, {Elea::er, Daniel, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. Oct. 14, 1778, in Coventry, Conn.; m. Jan. 1, 1799, Dr.
Samuel White of Andover, Conn., b. Feb. 23, 1777, d. Feb. 10,
1845, at Hudson, N. Y., son of Capt. Dan White and Sarah Hale.
He was Professor of Surgery in Berkshire Medical College; Presi-
dent of the New York State Medical Society, and Chief Surgeon of
Private Hospital for Insane; an Elder in the Presbyterian Church;
he was several times chosen mayor of the city of Hudson. While
occupying the latter office, he entertained General (Marquis) de
LaFayette on his visit to that city. Mrs. Wealthy Pomeroy White
d. Oct. 31, 1854.
yth gen. Children:
4382 Emeline White, b. Oct. 17, 1799; m. Feb. 28, 1820, Frederick
F. Barnard of Albany, N. Y. ; d. June 18, 1833. +
4383 Dr. Samuel Pomeroy White, b. Nov. 8, 1801, in Hudson, N. Y.;
gr. Union College, 1822; and New York State Medical College;
m. June 29, 1825, Caroline M. Jenkins ; practicing physician in New
York City; lecturer in the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield,
Mass. +
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4384 Jane Augusta White, b. Jan. 6, 1804, Hudson, N. Y. ; d. Sept.
9, 1832; unm.
4385 Frances Mary White, b. Dec. 26, 1805; m. May 9, 1826, Rev.
William Chester, D.D., of Hudson, N. Y. ; gr. Union College,
1815; he was Associate Secretary of the Board of Education of
the Presbyterian Church twenty-eight years. +
4386 George Hale White, M.D., b. Oct. 24, 1808; m. Sept. 3, 1840,
Lucy C. Huntington, b. April 11, 1822, dau. of Joseph Huntington
and Julia Dodge; he was prominent as a physician in Hudson and
New York City; s. p.
4387 John Chester White, b. Feb. 21, 1811; m. May 1, 1838, Lavinia
Maxwell, b. in 1813 ; he d. at Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1843. +
4388 Sarah White, b. Feb. 2, 1813; d. Aug. 21, 1843.
4389 Elizabeth White, b. May 10, 1814; m. July 1, 1847, Ambrose
Spencer Russell, Esq. +
4390 Henry Kirk White, b. July 28, 1816; resided in New York City.
4391 Anna Hale White, b. Jan. 11, 1820; m. Nov. 10, 1841, Charles
T. Leake of New York City. +
8th gen. Children of Emeline and Frederick F. Barnard, (4382):
4392 Samuel White Barnard, b. 1820; m. Nov., 1855, Cordelia Chap-
man of Lyons, N. Y.
4393 Frances Barnard, b. 1822; m. Henry Hawley of Albany, N. Y.
4394 Sarah Barnard, b. 1824; m. in 1853, Thomas Stampps of Vir-
ginia, who d. 1855; she d. Oct., 1856.
4395 Anna Hale Barnard, b. 1826; m. Norman White.
4396 Benjamin Stanton Barnard, b. 1828; gr. Williams College, 1848.
4397 Frederick Joseph Barnard, b. 1831 ; d. 1856.
Children of Dr. Samuel P. and Caroline M, White, (4383):
4398 Robert Jenkins White, b. Dec. 8, 1826; lived in New York City.
4399 Julia Cabot White, b. Aug. 8, 1828; m. April 18, 1849, Edward
M. Livermore of Cambridge, Mass.
4400 Benjamin Ogden White, b. April 15, 1831, in New York City;
m. April 15, 1862, Susan Hubbard Meyers, b. Nov. 30, 1841, d.
Sept. 1, 1883, dau. of Edward Meyers and Susan Hubbard; he d.
Jan. 29, 1894; he had been Secretary of the New York Stock
Exchange. +
4401 Frances Chester White, b. March 3, 1833; m. Marcellus Hart-
ley, who d. April 22, 1909. At his death, a news item in the New
York Mail and Express said: "It was learned today that Mar-
cellus Hartley, who was head of the sporting goods firm of M.
Hartley & Co., Broadway, N. Y., and a large stockholder in the
Westinghouse Electric Company, left an estate of $60,000,000.*' +
4402 Henry Kirke White, b. Apri'l 12, 1837.
4403 Samuel Pomeroy White, b. Oct. 31, 1839; d. March 2, 1841.
4404 Caroline Jenkins White, b. Dec. 20, 1841.
4405 Cornelia White, b. Jan. 5, 1845; m. Henry Langdon Butler of
New York City.
Children of Frances M. and Rev, William Chester, (438s):
4406 Elizabeth Chester, b. March 12, 1829.
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4407 John Chester, b. April 23, 1832; gr. College of New Jersey, 1851;
gr. Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania; theological
student; m. Oct. 2, 1855, Rachel Annie Alward of Colunnbia, Pa.
4408 Charles Chauncey Chester, b. ; d. in infancy.
Children of John C. and Lavinia White, (4387):
4409 Howard Maxwell White, b. Aug. 25, 1839; d. Dec. 26, 1843.
4410 John Chester White, b. March 8, 1841; educated at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania.
Children of Elizabeth and Ambrose S. Russell, (4389):
4411 Florence Russell, b. Apri\ 19, 1848, Claverack, N. Y.; m. Oct.,
1871, Henry Skelton Carter, M.D., b. Jan. 2, 1849, New York
City, son of Rev. Lawson Carter and wife Mary Arabella Steen-
back Gale; gr. Trinity, A.B., 1869; Columbia College, M.D.
(College of Physicians and Surgeons), 1872. Physician. Res.,
New York City. +
4412 Jane Averell Russell, b. Nov. 12, 1850; m. William Groesbeck
English.
4413 John Russell, b. Nov. 10, 1852; unm.
4414 William Averell Russell, b. Dec. 25, 1854; m. Theodora De
Breul.
4415 Frederick Barnard Russell, b. Dec. 22, 1857; d. unm.
Children of Anna Hale and Charles T. Leake, (4391):
4416 William Leake, b. April 28, 1847; d. in infancy.
4417 Catherine Quintard Leake, b. March 22, 1848; m. Edward Chit-
tenden of Stockport, N. Y.
4418 Frances Chester Leake, b. Sept. 4, 1850.
4419 Charles Pomeroy Leake, b. Feb. 13, 1853.
4420 Henry Delavan Leake, b. Aug. 4, 1855.
pth gen. Children of Benjamin O. and Susan H. White, (4400):
4421 Julia Livermore White. 4422 Clara Pomeroy White.
4423 Evelyn Marbury White.
4424 Edith Hamilton White, Supt. N. Y. City Mission and Tract
Societv
4425 Bertha Ogden White, d. March 31, 1882.
4426 Ethel Folger White, m. Sept. 14, 1907, Cornelius Wagstaff
Remsen.
4427 Aline Chester White.
Children of Frances C. and Marcellus Hartley, (4401):
4428 Caroline Jenkins Hartley, b. April 6, 1857; d. May 1, 1857.
4429 Emma Hartley, b. Aug. 16, 1858; m. May 6, 1880, Norman White
Dodge; she d. March 3, 1881. +
4430 Helen Hartley, b. Aug. 16, 1860; m. June 30, 1892, George W.
Jenkins. +
4431 Grace Hartley, (twin with Helen), b. Aug. 16, 1860; m. Nov.
22, 1882, James Stokes ; she d. Nov. 22, 1892. +
Children of Florence and Dr, Henry S, Carter, (4411):
4432 Eleanor Russell Carter, b. Nov. 21, 1873, Heidelberg, Germany.
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4433 Gale Hogeboom Carter, b. March 9, 1875, Harrow, England; Co-
lumbia, 1896; m. Jan. 27, 1902, Marian Thomas.
4434 Russell Steenback Carter, b. March 22, 1878, New York City;
M. E. Stevens Institute, 1900; m. April 20, 1907, Florence Bates. +
4435 Jarvis Pomeroy Carter, b. Oct. 30, 1881, New York City; gr.
Columbia, A.B., 1902, LL.B., 1905 ; m. April 28, 1906, Harriet
Coleman Delafield, b. New York City, dau. of Maturin Livingston
Delafield and wife Mary Coleman Livingston. +
4436 Douglas Skelton Carter, b. Sept. 9, 1884, New York City; gr.
Columbia, 1906; m. Oct. 26, 1909, Sara Merritt. +
4437 Kenneth Freeland Carter, b. Jan. 30, 1889, New York City;
gr. Columbia, 1911.
loth gen. Child of Emma and Norman W, Dodge, (4429):
4438 Marcellus Hartley Dodge, b. Feb. 28, 1881; gr. Columbia Col-
lege; m. Ethel G. Rockefeller.
Children of Helen and George W. Jenkins, (4430):
4439 Helen Hartley Jenkins, b. Dec. 29, 1893.
4439.1 Grace Jenkins.
Children of Grace and James Stokes, (4431):
4440 Emma Hartley Stokes, b. Dec. 20, 1884; d. Dec. 18, 1895.
4441 Marcellus Hartley Stokes, b. Sept. 1, 1888; d. Feb. 25, 1890.
Child of Russell S. and Florence Carter, (4434):
4442 Mary Hinman Carter, b. July 31, 1908.
Children of Jarvis P, and Harriet C. Carter, (4435):
4443 Jarvis Delafield Carter, b. May 16, 1907, New York City.
4443.1 Harriet Delafield Carter, b. March 20, 1909, New York City.
^ Child of Douglas S. and Sara Carter, (4436):
4443.2 Gladys Merritt Carter, b. Sept. 24, 1910.
2144 DANIEL STERLLNG POMEROY, (Eleaser, Daniel, Noah, Jo-
seph, Eltweed), b. Feb. 18, 1781, at Coventry, Conn.; m. Lucy
Dimock of South Coventry; he d. Feb. 26, 1845.
yth gen. Children:
4444 Mary Pomeroy, m. Mr. Wicher; resided at Lockport, N. Y.
4445 Truman Pomeroy.
4446 Daniel Dimock Pomeroy, b. Oct. 9, 1805. +
2145 EUDOCIA POMEROY, (Eleaser, Daniel, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. Jan. 10, 1783, at Coventry, Conn.; m. June 4, 1804, Dr.
Nathaniel Aspinwall, b. Sept. 18, 1778, at Canterbury, Conn.; he
studied medicine and practiced at Genoa, Cayuga county, N. Y.,
where he became a very successful and popular physician. Re-
sided at Elmira, N. Y., during the latter years of his life; d. there
July 3, 1861 ; she d. at Elmira, March 9, 1852.
yth gen. Children:
4447 Nathaniel Pomeroy Aspinwall, b. March 22, 1805, at Genoa,
N. Y.; m. March 3, 1829, Angelina Brush, b. March 8, 1805, at
Aurora, N. Y., d. Dec. 8, 1886 ; he d. March 3, 1879, at Elmira. +
(Sntralogg of tiff Pottt^rotf 3wmi^ 412
4448 Augustus Aspinwall, b. April 4, 1807; gr. Hamilton College;
physician beginning practice at the time of his death, Feb. 19, 1828.
4449 Edson Aspinwall, b. April 25, 1811; m. March 29, 1831, Esther
Maria Beardsley, b. Dec. 29, 1811; he d. Sept. 25, 1850. +
4450 Thomas Aspinwall, b. July 23, 1815; d. Jan. 13, 1818.
4451 Sarah E. Aspinwall, b. March 27, 1823; d. Oct. 7, 1832.
8th gen. Children of Nathaniel P. and Angelina Brush Aspinwall,
(4H7)''
4452 Augustus Aspinwall, b. March 19, 1830, Genoa, N. Y. ; m. Dec.
21, 1862, Harriet Louisa McCrory, who d. Feb. 6, 1885; m. (2)
Feb. 6, 1889, Maria L. Bassac, at Wahpeton, N. D. ; she d. s. p. +
4453 Mary Brush Aspinwall, b. July 11, 1831; d. June 26, 1833.
4454 JuDSON Aspinwall, b. Feb. 24, 1833, Northville, N. Y. ; m. Har-
riet A. McWilliams, b. April 16, 1835, Scarsburg, N. Y. ; he d. Oct.
10, 1867, near Baxter Springs, Kansas. +
4455 Edward Payson Aspinwall, b. March 18, 1834, Southport, N. H. ;
d. Oct., 1866.
4456 Nathaniel Pomeroy Aspinwall, b. Feb. 27, 1836, Elmira, X. Y. ,
m. Sept. 13, 1871, Lucinda Gates, b. Nov. 15, 1854, d. Aug. 10,
1895, dau. of Joshua Gates. Military service in Civil War; en-
listed in Co. F, 11th Pa. Vol. Cav., Aug., 1861; appointed eighth
corporal ; promoted to regimental quartermaster-sergeant ; served
twenty-two months with the regiment, when he was appointed
Captain and Assistant-Quartermaster, his commission being signed
by President Abraham Lincoln. He served in South Carolina and
Florida, and was chief-quartermaster of the district of Florida.
After service of three years and four months his resignation was
accepted on surgeon's certificate of disability. Retired civil en-
gineer. Res., Seattle, Wash. +
4457 Samuel Brush Aspinwall, b. June 4, 1838.
4458 James Aspinwall, b. April 25, 1841, Elmira, N. Y. ; d. Feb. 11,
1842.
4459 Sarah Angelina Aspinwall, b. Nov. 27, 1850, Elmira, N. Y. ;
d. Sept. 2, 1852.
Children of Edson and Esther M. Aspinwall, (4449):
4460 Sherman Nathaniel Aspinwall, b. April 3, 1832.
4461 Charles Augustus Aspinwall, b. June 5, 1835.
4462 Ellen Maria Aspinwall, b. Jan. 9, 1839.
4463 Mary Cornelia Aspinwall, b. Dec. 23, 1844.
4464 Frances Amelia Aspinwall, b. Oct. 20, 1846.
4465 Edson Marion Aspinwall, b. Oct. 7, 1849; d. Aug. 27, 1850.
p/A gen. Children of Augustus and Harriet L, Aspinwall, (4452):
4466 Harriet Louise Aspinwall. b. March 29, 1865, at Chippewa
Agency, Minn.; m. Oct. 7, 1886, Benjamin F. Crowl, coal dealer,
St. Paul, Minn. +
4467 Mary A. Aspinwall, b. Dec. 27, 1866, at Chippewa Agency,
Minn.; unm.
4468 Edson A. Aspinwall, b. April 24, 1870, at Green Lake, Minn.;
413 i^txtif dtmrntmn - Sastpl^
m. July 2, 1909, at Spokane, Wash., Carrie Rowena Baker, b. July
8, 1872, at Lake City, Minn. Printer. Minot, N. D.
4469 William Brush Aspinwall, b. Aug. 18, 1872, at Green Lake,
Minn. ; ni. Dec. 25, 1903, at Wahpeton, N. D., Frances E. Rickert.
Book store business. Wahpeton. +
4470 Kate Pomeroy Aspinwall, b. March 12, 1875, at Green Lake,
Minn. ; m. Nov. 25, 1897, at Wahpeton, Leroy V. Smith. Electric
roads. Priest River, Idaho. +
Children of Judson and Harriet A. Aspinwall, (4454):
4471 Harriet A. Aspinwall, b. May 23, 1858, at Elmira, N. Y. ; m.
May 17, 1883, at Troy, Pa., Eli Barton Parsons. +
4472 Angeline Aspinwall, b. April 15, 1860, at Baldwin City, Kas. ;
m. Charles Moseman Wilson of Grand Rapids, Mich.
4473 Walter Aspinwall, b. Tan. 31, 1863, Eudora, Kas.; m. Sept. 29,
1886, at Elmira, N. Y., Evelyn Ingham, b. Feb. 12, 1864. +
4474 Edward Pavson Aspinwall, b. Jan. 18, 1865, at Eudora, Kas.;
ni. at Troy, Pa., Dec. 27, 1888, Laura Pomeroy Redington, b. Aug.
14, 1864, at Troy, Pa. +
4475 John Judson Aspinwall, b. Feb. 1, 1867, at Baxter Springs, Kas.
Children of Nathaniel P. and Lucinda Aspinwall, (4456):
4476 Grace Pomeroy Aspinwall, b. Oct. 24, 1872.
4477 Mabel Gates Aspinwall, b. Jan. 17, 1878.
4478 Samuel Brush Aspinwall, b. June 20, 1880; d. Sept., 1903, at
Wahpeton, N. D.
4479 Ernest Nathaniel Aspinwall, b. Feb. 7, 1884.
4480 Judson Aspinwall, b. Feb. 6, 1887.
10 gen. Child of Harriet L. and B. F. Crowl, (4466):
4481 Oliver Aspinwall Crowl, b. Jan. 15, 1895, at Watertown, S.
Dakota.
Children of William B, and Frances Aspinwall, (446Q):
4482 Frances Kathryn Aspinwall, b. at Wahpeton, N. Dakota.
4483 Dorothy Louise Aspinwall, b. at Wahpeton, N. Dakota.
Children of Kate P. and Lerov V. Smith, (4470):
4484 Leroy A. Smith, b. Sept. 27, 1898, at Moreton, N. D.
4485 Louise M. Smith, b. July 13, 1900, at St. Paul, Minn.
4486 Kathryn F. Smith, b. July 11. 1904. at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children of Harriet A, and Eli B. Parsons, b, Troy, Pa., (4471):
4487 Eli Barton Parsons, b. Sept. 24, 1884; Yale Colleg'e, 1907.
4488 TuDSON Aspinwall Parsons, b. Oct. 21, 1886; Yale College, 1909.
4489 Theodore Samuel Parsons, b. Nov. 29, 1888; Yale, Sheffield.
4490 Walter Edward Parsons, b. Nov. 11, 1890.
4491 Harriet McWilliams Parsons, b. Dec. 17, 1892.
Child of Walter and Evelyn Aspinwall, (4473):
4492 Helen Ingham Aspinwall, b. Feb. 12, 1889, at Buffalo, N. Y.;
gr. Smith College.
Children of Edward P. and Laura P. Aspinwall, b. Buffalo,
N. y\, (4474):
4493 Robert Redington Aspinwall, b. Nov. 17, 1889.
(Srn^alosg of tift Pomrrotf 3Famttg 414
4494 Mary Frances Aspinwall, b. Sept. 22, 1891.
4495 Laura Pomeroy Aspinwall, b. Dec. 17, 1898.
2146 MARY (POLLY) POMEROY, (Eleaser, Daniel, Noah, Joseph,
Eltweed), b. April 13, 1787, at Coventry, Conn.; m. Oct. 10, 1808,
William Talcott of Coventry, b. Dec. 30, 1786; she d. April 14,
1846; he m. (2) Nov. 30, 1846, Matilda Miller, b. Jan. 30, 1805.
yth gen. Child:
4496 Eleazer Pomeroy Talcott, b. Dec. 12, 1809; gr. Yale College,
1832; d. Nov. 14, 1832.
2147 SYBIL POMEROY, {Eleaser, Daniel, Noah, Joseph, Eltiveed),
b. March 2, 1789, at Coventry, Conn.; m. Sept. 19, 1809, Dr.
Eleazer Hunt of Coventry, b. Dec. 28, 1786, d. March 12, 1867;
she d. Feb. 10, 1876.
Jth gen. Children:
4497 Dr. Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt, b. Aug. 26, 1810; gr. Yale Col-
lege, 1833; m. June 13, 1848, Mary Ann Crosby of Hartford,
Conn. Soon after graduating he engaged in teaching school in
Mississippi two years, after which he studied medicine, and grad-
uated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D. ; practiced two
years in New York, after which he went to Hartford, Conn. For
many years he was a director and medical visitor at the Retreat.
He was active in public affairs, and for some time chairman of the
Board of Health, and medical examiner for the Mutual Life In-
surance Company. He was twice elected President of the Con-
necticut Medical Society; he was a director of the Aetna National
Bank and Security Company; president of the Union Manufactur-
ing Company; member of the school committee; trustee of the
Watkins Library, and the Farm School; and for nineteen years
physician of the deaf and dumb asylum. +
4498 Eleazer Pomeroy Hunt, b. June 21, 1814; m. Sophia de Lespine
of St. Augustine, Fla. ; he d. at Galveston, Texas, May 1872.
4499 Mary Elizabeth Hunt, b. Mav 19, 1816; d. Sept. 17, 1867.
4500 Ruth Frances Hunt, b. July 20, 1820; m. Feb. 24, 1867, Na-
thaniel C. Bowen of Norwich, Conn.
8th gen. Children of Dr. Ebenezer K. and Mary Ann Hunt,
(4497):
4501 Sarah Crosby Hunt, b. Sept. 10, 1849, d. June 2, 1853.
4502 Mary Sybil Hunt, b. March 9, 1850; d. Feb. 9, 1855.
4503 Louise Burgess Hunt, b. March 1, 1856.
4504 Janette Crosby Hunt, b. May 3, 1863.
2148 COL. ISAAC NEWTON POMEROY, {Eleazer, Daniel, Noah,
Joseph, Eltweed), b. March 4, 1791, at Coventry, Conn.; m. (1)
Dec. 8, 1813, Anna Olmsted Kingsbury, b. July 29, 1792, at Han-
over, N. H., d. Dec. 5, 1831, dau. of John Denison Kingsbury of
Andover, and Annie Olmsted of East Hartford, Conn.; he m (2)
May 17, 1832, Maria Ann Merrick of Springfield, Pa., b. Oct. 9,
1805, at Walton, N. Y., d. Feb. 27, 1839, dau. of Quartus Merrick ;
415 l^ixtlf (Srnrration - Somplf
he m. (3) Oct. 9, 1839, Lucinda Williston Merrick, sister of second
wife, b. Oct. 28, 1810; he d. May 30, 1861. He always took a
close interest in military affairs, and was commissioned Colonel
of a militia regiment. In 1818 he removed to Troy, Pa., and en-
gaged in the manufacture of woolen cloth. A few years later,
after a short experience at farming, he purchased the Eagle Hotel,
which, being located on the stage route from Elmira, N. Y., to
Philadelphia, became a famous hostelry. About the year 1845, he
sold and retired from hotel life and built a residence in which he
lived until the time of his death, 1861. He invested largely in
village property, imparting by means of his excellent business tal-
ents and liberality, a stimulus to Troy long and gratefully remem-
bered. A marked feature of his life and sentiment was the grace-
ful courtesy he always exhibited to his grown children.
/th gen. Children by ist wife:
4505 Sybil Kingsbury Pomeroy, b. Sept. 28, 1814, at Coventry, Conn.;
d. Aug. 28, 1832.
4506 Daniel Filbert Pomeroy, b. Feb. 27, 1816. +
4507 Eleazer Pomeroy, b. Tan. 2, 1818. +
4508 Horace Pomeroy, b. Jan. 22, 1819. +
4509 Samuel White Pomeroy, b. Dec. 8, 1821. +
4510 Laura Ann Pomeroy, b. June 19, 1824. +
4511 Charlotte Eliza Pomeroy, b. Oct. 2, 1826, at Troy, Pa.; m. Dec,
23, 1852, Charles C. Paine.
Children bv 2d wife:
4512 Newton Merrick Pomeroy, b. Jan. 19, 1833.
4513 Anna Maria Pomeroy, b. Dec. 5, 1836; d. May 17, 1838.
Children b\ 3d wife:
4514 SoLYMAN Pomeroy, b. Aug. 7, 1840; d. May 27, 1841.
4515 Henrietta Bliss Pomeroy, b. Aug. 29, 1842. +
4516 George Hamilton Pomeroy, b. Feb. 8, 1845; d. June 18, 1864.
2149 MARTIN EBENEZER POMEROY, {Eleazer, Daniel, Noah, Jo-^
sephy Eltweed), b. Jan. 17, 1794, at Coventry, Conn.; m. June 18,
1818, Laura Brewster of Coventry, b. Nov. 29, 1795, d. June 5,
1890, dau. of Shubael and Asenath Brewster; he d. Feb. 26, 1866,
at Troy, Pa. He was associated with his brother, Isaac Newton
Pomeroy, many years in the manufacture of woolen cloth. At the
dissolution of the co-partnership he settled on a farm near Troy,
Pa., turning his attention to agricultural pursuits for the remainder
of his life. He was a man of sterling qualities and paid strict
attention to his own business. He was elder in a Presbyterian
church, and enjoyed life till a ripe old age.
7th gen. Children, b. at Troy, Pa, :
4517 Emily Asenath Pomeroy, b. May 17, 1820. +
4518 Edward Sereno Pomeroy, b. June 8, 1822; m. May 15, 1851, So-
phronia Davison ; he d. Aug. 30, 1857 ; s. p.
4519 Andrew Kingsbury Pomeroy, b. Feb. 18, 1824; m. July 8, 1865,
Mrs. Lucy K. Royce ; he d. 1896, at Troy.
(Srtualosg of tl^r Pomrrotf J^amilg 41E
4520 LaFayette Brewster Pomeroy, b. April 24, 1826. +
4521 Augustus Aspikwall Pomeroy, b. Oct. 27, 1828. +
4522 Chauncey Newton Pomeroy, b. Sept. 20, 1830; unm.
4523 Sybil Maria Pomeroy, b. Dec. 18, 1832; m. June 2, 1852, at Troy,
Eli Barton Parsons; she d. Jan. 31, 1882; s. p.
4524 Mary Augusta Pomeroy, b. Sept. 18, 1834; d. Jan. 20, 1899;
unm.
4525 Frances Lvdia Pomeroy, b. March 26, 1837; m. May 12, 1898,
William B. Hoff, of Troy, Pa,
4526 Charles Buxton Pomeroy, b. April 11, 1839. +
2150 ELIZA (BETSEY) POMEROY, (Eleaser, Daniel, Noah, Joseph,
Eltiveed), b. March 22, 1796, at Coventry, Conn.; m. (1) in 1813,
John Hosmer of Hudson, N. Y., b. Nov. 30, 1795; she m. (2) Jan.
1, 1834, Frederick T. Barnard of Albany, N. Y. ; she d. Aug. 28,
1839.
7th gen. Children by ist marriage:
4527 William Hosmer. 4528 Henry Hosmer.
4529 Fanny Hosmer, b. 1823; m. Frederick Hastings, who d. July 10,
1865.
4530 Catherine Hosmer, m. Rev. Henry Neill. +
Child by 2d marriage:
4531 Anna Hale Barnard, b. ; d. April 20, 1903.
8th gen. Children of Catherine and Henry Neill, (4530):
4532 Catherine Neill. 4533 Henry Neill.
2151 CHAUNCEY POMEROY, (Eleazer, Daniel, Noah, Joseph, Bit-
zveed), b. Dec. 8, 1800, at Coventry, Conn.; m. (1) in 1827, Mary
Northrup Ives, dau. of Elihu Ives and Lucy Whittemore of New
Haven, Conn. ; she d. Jan. 3, 1881 ; he m. (2) Aghes McAndrews,
dau. of Michael McAndrews and Eleanor Nicholson; he d. June
24, 1888, at Atlanta, Ga. He was professor of mathematics at
the Mt. Pleasant Classical Institute when but 21 years of age;
Horace Greeley was one of his pupils. Soon after his first mar-
riage his physician ordered him to make his residence in the
South, and the journey was made by stage, of thirty days* drive,
to the piney woods about Columbus, Ga., where he erected and
equipped a steam saw-mill in the heart of the forest. His health
improved in a measure, but his mill was burned to the ground.
He then went to Columbus and built a hotel, and was very suc-
cessful in that business until he was again burned out. In 1851
he removed to Montgomery, Ala., and established business as a
clothing merchant; as he prospered in this line he built a villa
on the banks of the Alabama River, and acquired a plantation
containing 500 acres of fruitful land, the work being done by
thirty-five slaves which he had purchased. He remained here until
the close of the Civil War, and in the meantime sacrificed all his
estate to the lost cause.
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Jth gen. Children:
Seven children, d. young.
4534 Jane Eliza Pomeroy, b. June 15, 1845, at Gerard, Ga. +
2179 DANIEL POMEROY, {John, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
July 2, 1789, at Somers, Conn.; when he was seventeen years
old he taught school in Log City, N. Y., remaining several years;
he m. (1) in 1815, Cynthia Sexton, b. Nov. 12, 1788, d. July 5,
1822, dau. of Elijah Sexton and Sibyl Spencer of Smyrna, N. Y. ;
he m. (2) Feb. 24, 1825, Roanna Sexton, who d. Oct. 19, 1849;
he m. (3) in 1851, Julia Ackley; he d. at Lockport, N. Y., Nov.
1, 1867. Daniel Pomeroy went to Western New York in 1810,
and served throughout the war of 1812; he was on the river at
Lewiston when Gen. Winfield Scott engaged the English in battle at
Queenstown Heights, at the time General Brock was killed. In 1825,
when the Marquis de Lafayette visited this country, Mr. Pomeroy
was one of the escort to accompany the French general through
the county. As the party would approach one of the district
school houses, Mr. Pomeroy would ride on ahead, and when
Lafayette would appear the scholars would stand in line by the
side of the road until he passed; he always saluted them with a
merry word. Daniel Pomeroy in the meantime bought govern-
ment land in Niagara county, near where the city of Lockport
now stands. This land was heavily timbered, and after building
a log house he returned to Smyrna. After his marriage he re-
turned to Lockport, located in the town and cleared and improved
his farm, setting out fruit trees which he obtained at Lewiston
and carried home on his back, a distance of fifteen miles. Turner's
History of the Holland Purchase very properly places his name
in the list of the earliest pioneer settlers in the vicinity of Lock-
port. For over forty years he discharged the duties of Post-
master at Hickory Comers, and filled several town and county
offices of responsibility. Through all the relations of life he dis-
played a character for energy and integrity worthy of emulation,
and possessed a remarkably strong constitution. He was a Free
Mason, and at the time of his death was a very old member of
Lockport Lodge, No. 73. The brothers attended his funeral in a
body, the services being conducted by Rev. Dr. Wisner, and the
burial ceremony by Worshipful Master Loren King of Lockport.
Jth gen. Children by ist wife:
4535 Emily Pomeroy, b. Nov. 26, 1816, at Smyrna, N. Y.; m. John
Jeffers. Resided near Massillon, Ohio, and d. there Oct. 31, 1888.
Had seven children.
4536 Lavinia Pomeroy, b. June 16, 1818; d. 1844, at Lockport; unm.
4537 Harriet Pomeroy, b. Oct. 3, 1820. +
4538 NiLES Pomeroy, b. June 3, 1822. +
Children by 2d wife:
4539 Hiram Pomeroy, b. July 20, 1826. +
4540 Norman Pomeroy, b. Feb. 20, 1829, at Lockport, N. Y. +
(Srn^alosQ of tlfe Pomrrog 3FamttQ 41fi
4541 Cynthia Roanna Pomeroy, b. Nov. 28, 1830. +
4542 Sexton Spencer Pomeroy, b. July 18, 1833. +
4543 Daniel Pomeroy, b. July 18, 1839 ; d. in 1844.
4544 Andrew Jackson Pomeroy, b. May 8, 1841. +
Child by 3d wife:
4545 Ruby Pomeroy, b. Oct. 9, 1857, at Lockport, where she resided in
1878.
2180 JABEZ B. POMEROY, (John, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
Aug. 5, 1794, at Somers, Conn.; m. April 26, 1821, at Hamilton,
N. Y., Phebe Hopkins, b. Sept. 13, 1799, d. Sept. 10, 1870, at
Kalamazoo, Mich., dau. of Chillingsworth and Eunice (Tucker)
Hopkins, (descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower) ; he
d. Feb. 26, 1879, at Lockport, N. Y. He was one of the three
pioneers who first settled in the town of Lockport, his associates
being his brother Daniel and another gentleman whose name is
not known to the Annalist; he engaged in business, was prominent
in social life, hut not disposed to seek political preferment.
7th gen. Children:
4546 Norton Pomeroy, b. May 12, 1823. +
4547 Hopkins Chillingsworth Pomeroy, b. May 14, 1825. +
4548 Sarah C. Pomeroy, b. Feb. 23, 1827. +
4549 Jabez Davis Pomeroy, b. July 24, 1829; resided in Chicago; unm.
4550 Orphia L. Pomeroy, b. Aug. 26, 1831; m. Dec. 11, 1855, Edwin
Farley; she d. May 7, 1858, at Flint, Mich.; s. p.
4551 Caroline Pomeroy, b. Nov. 30, 1833. +
4552 Lewis Sherrill Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1836. +
4553 Myron Pomeroy, b. Aug. 5, 1838. +
4554 Daniel Webster Pomeroy, b. Jan. 14, 1845. +
2182 NOAH POMEROY, (John, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed). b.
Dec. 18, 1802, at Hamilton, N. Y.; m. about 1838, OHva West,
b. Jan. 29, 18iD0, at East Hamilton, dau. of Lieut. Thomas West
(an officer in the Revolution) and Rebecca Kennedy; he d. Feb.
27, 1848; she m. (2) Eli Rowell; she d. Jan. 17, 1886.
7th gen. Child:
4555 Cordelia Pomeroy, b. Oct. 7, 1841. +
2184 SARAH POMEROY, (John, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
Jan. 20, 1806, at Hamilton, N. Y.; m. Nov. 10, 1829, Joseph
Crocker, b. June 27, 1802, at Buxton, Me., d. March 11, 1862, son
of Luther Crocker and Hannah Paine; she d. April 13, 1901. Re-
sided, Lockport, N. Y.
7th gen. Children, b. at Lockport:
4556 Charles A. Crocker, b. Aug. 12, 1832; m. July 4, 1856, Ann
Colbaugh. H-
4557 Daniel Pomeroy Cmcker, b. July 8, 1834; m. Nov., 1862, Sarah
J. Taylor, who d. Aug. 26, 1895, at Cambria, N. Y.; he m. (2)
Sept. 4, 1889, Ella J. Eighme. +
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4558 James N. Crocker, b. March 23, 1836; m. Jan. 8, 1863, Thankful
Steadinan; he d. Jan. 15, 1890, at Reed City, Mich. +
4559 Hannah A. Crocker, b. Sept. 26, 1840; unm.
4560 Orpha E. Crocker, b. Jan. 8, 1843; d. Sept. 23, 1888, at Buffalo,
N. Y.; unm.
4561 Robert L. Crocker, b. April 22, 1846; m, Feb. 19, 1880, Qara
H. Baldwin. Residence, Niagara Falls, N. Y. +
8th gen. Children of Charles A. and Ann Crocker, (4556):
4562 Orpha E. Crocker, b. July 2, 1857, at Stillman Valley, III; m.
(1) Oct. 26, 1880, Leopold L. Krause; he d. April 12, 1896; she
m. (2) March 12, 1897, John Hicks. Res., Rockford, Iowa.
4563 Joseph Walter Crocker, b. July 12, 1859, at Byron, 111. ; m. June,
1881, Lena Wiley; he d. Sept. 5, 1886.
4564 Sarah A. Crocker, b. March 31, 1861, at Lockport, N. Y. ; m.
Dec. 18. 1889, Orren L. Trowbridge.
4565 Mary L. Crocker, b. Sept. 2, 1863, at Rockford, Iowa; m. (1)
April 20. 1884, Carl H. Blume, who d. Aug. 15, 1889; m. (2)
June 22, 1897, Andrew A. Hastie.
4566 Edwin Pomeroy Crocker, b. May 21, 1875, at Rockford, Iowa;
m. Dec. 25, 1901, Grace E. Fenton. Res., Rochester, N. Y.
Children of Daniel P. and Sarah /. Crocker, (4557):
4567 Edwin A. Crocker, b. May 24, 1865, at Lockport, N. Y. ; m.
March 25, 1891, Elizabeth M. Bulmer. Res., Reed City, Mich.
4568 Homer J. Crocker, b. July 19, 1868, at Lockport; m. March 23,
1892, Harriet M. Brick. Res., Reed City, Mich.
Child by 2d wife:
4569 Leone R. Crocker, b. Oct. 11, 1890, at Cambria, N. Y.
Children of James N. and Thankful Crocker, (4558):
4570 Joseph N. Crocker, b. Aug. 6, 1863, at Lockport; m. (1) Sept.
21, 1887, Sarah A. Judd; she d. 1888; m. (2) Oct. 21, 1890, Eva
M. Judd. Res., Chicago, 111.
4571 Mary Evelena Crocker, b. July 21, 1866, at Lockport; d. April
6, 1887.
4572 Sarah L. Crocker, b. Sept. 9, 1875, at Reed City, Mich.; d. Feb.
3, 1881.
Children of Robert L, and Clara H. Crocker, (4561):
4573 Foster B. Crocker, b. Dec. 13, 1883, at Lockport; m. July 12,
1909, Winifred A. Reynolds of Syracuse, N. Y. Res., Phoenix,
N. Y.
4574 Clara Louise Crocker, b. April 30, 1897, at Niagara Falls.
2185 ORPHEA POMEROY, {John, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
April 4, 1807, at Hamilton, N. Y.; m. Sept., 1835, Robert Davis,
b. June 13, 1808, at Gorham, Me., d. Dec. 31, 1869, son of Eben-
ezer Davis and Mary Payne; she d. Jan. 15, 1885. Res., Grass
Lake, Mich.
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7th gen. Children, b, at Grass Lake, Mich.:
4575 RoANNA Davis, b. Jan. 17, 1837; m. Dec. 1, 1857, Isaac Long-
year, b. Feb. 12, 1829. d. Feb. 25, 1869, son of Peter Longyear
and Jerusha Stevens. Res., Grass Lake, Mich. +
4576 Joseph Crocker Davis, b. Feb. 12, 1840; m. June 10, 1870, Hermie
Dwelle; he d. June 8, 1871, at Grass Lake, Mich.
8th gen. Children of Roanna and Isaac Longyear, (4575):
4577 Frank Longyear, b. April 7, 1859; d. Oct. 20, 1859, at Grass Lake.
4578 Arthur Longyear, b. Sept. 23, 1862; d. Sept. 20, 1866, at Grass
Lake.
4579 Edmund Joseph Longyear, b. Nov. 6, 1864; m. April 16, 1890,
Nevada Patten. Res., Minneapolis, Minn. +
Qth gen. Children of Edmund J. and Nevada Longyear, (4579):
4580 Clyde Stanley Longyear, b. May 27, 1891.
4581 Robert Davis Longyear, b. July 11, 1892.
4582 Philip Owen Longyear, b. Jan. 23, 1896.
4583 Margaret Longyear, b. Oct. 20, 1899.
4584 Richard Patten Longyear, b. April 12, 1905.
4585 Edmund Joseph Longyear, b. Sept. 6, 1906.
2186 MARY ANN POMEROY, {John, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed),
b. May 17, 1809, at Hamilton, Oneida county, N. Y. ; m. Foster
Tucker. Res., Grand Rapids, Mich.
7th gen. Child:
4586 PoMERov Tucker, b He was a prominent newspaper man
in Troy, and Western New York ; he d. 1870 ; m +
8th gen. Child of Pomeroy Tucker and wife, (4586):
4587 Norma F. Tucker, m. Dec. 8, 1846, Hon. John M. Francis. She
was widely known for her social attainments, philanthropy, and
literary ability. She accompanied her husband, who was founder
of the Troy Times, on three diplomatic missions, to Greece, Por-
tugal, and Austria, a trip around the world in 1875-6, and several
other European journeys. She issued for private circulation a
volume entitled, "Across the Meridian." She also left in MSS. a
completed book of travels. At the age of forty-five she took up
linguistic studies and soon attained a fluent command of the
French, German and Portugese languages. Norma F. Tucker
had two brothers and two sisters, but the Annalist has no names
or other data.
2188 MARTIN POMEROY, (Jude, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
j Dec. 28, 1798, at Somers, Conn.; m. (1) in 1817, Sybil Hunt, b.
1798, d. Dec. 28, 1846; he m. (2) Dec. 25, 1848, Caroline Webster,
' dau. of Daniel Webster and Anne Andrus. He was a farmer near
Somers; in 1871 moved to WilHmantic; he d. April 26, 1879.
7th gen. Children by ist wife:
4588 Rosalia Pomeroy, b. about 1818; m. and resided at Alton, 111.;
d. 1908.
421 dixtlf (Srn^rattiin - lampif
4589 Franklin Pomeroy, m. and had children; he was killed by Indians
in California.
4590 Francis Martin Pomeroy, b. Feb. 22, 1820. +
4591 Adaline S. Pomeroy, b. Oct. 2, 1824. +
4592 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. Nov. 26, 1825; m. Mr. Davis; she d.
Sept. 12, 1886.
4593 Wealthy Pomeroy, m. William Butcher. Res., Utica, N. Y.
4594 Julia Experience Pomeroy, b. April 27, 1831. +
4595 Austin Pomeroy, b. April 4, 1833. +
4596 Chandler Miron Pomeroy, b. Nov. 17, 1838; he was a soldier
of the Civil War; was twice m. and had children. Res,, 1866,
Enfield, Conn.
Child by 2d zcife:
4597 Anna F. Pomeroy, b. April 10, 1851 ; lived with her mother in
Willimantic, Ct. ; m. May 23, 1898, James Purdie, b. Sept. 19,
1848, in Glasgow, Scotland, son of David Purdie and Agnes Mc-
Call; s. p. Res., Providence, R. I.
2192 JUDE POMEROY, (Jude, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b. May
31, 1807, at Somers, Conn.; m. in 1832, Ann Root. Res., Somers,
Conn.
yth gen. Children:
4598 Jane Pomeroy, b. April 14, 1833.
4599 Miranda Pomeroy, b. Sept. 19, 1837; d. 1858.
4600 Mariana Pomeroy, b. Aug. 30, 1840; m. Mr. Patten.
4601 Henry Pomeroy, b. May 25, 1843.
4602 Ellen Pomeroy, b. Nov. 3, 1847. +
4603 Emma Pomeroy, b. Aug. 8, 1850; d. 1856.
.2193 JOHN POMEROY, (Jude, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
Feb. 10, 1810, at Somers, Conn.; m. May 18, 1836, Mary Jane
Jackson Brown, who d. June 2, 1888; he d. April 18, 1884.
ph gen. Children:
4604 Clarissa Ozette Pomeroy, b. Feb. 25, 1838. +
4605 William Henry Pomeroy, b. March 14, 1842; d. Dec. 11, 1842.
4606 M.\RY Jackson Pomeroy, b. Dec. 28, 1844; d. April 11, 1873.
4607 Emily L. Pomeroy, b. April 5, 1847; d. May 22, 1867.
4608 John Henry Pomeroy, b. April 3, 1849. +
4609 Son Pomeroy, b. and d. July, 1850.
4610 Noah Gifford Pomeroy, b. March 10, 1852; m. Nov, 26, 1895,
Augusta Wilda Reynolds, b. May 12, 1867.
4611 Charles Kossuth Pomeroy, b. Nov. 27, 1854. +
2202 HIRAM STERLING POMEROY, (Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph,
Eltweed), b. Feb. 1, 1797, at Somers, Conn.; m. Sept. 6, 1820, at
Point Salubrious, N. Y., Esther Ryder, b. Nov. 23, 1795, at
Dumerston, Vt., d. Aug. 21, 1883, dau. of David Ryder and
Esther Joscelyn; he d. Oct. 13, 1885. Fanner and dealer in real
estate.
(Srt»alo9g of tifr Pomrrog Jamilg 422
//A ^e». Children, b. at Point Salubrious, N. Y.:
4612 Hiram Pomeroy, b. March 9, 1822.
4613 Mary Ann Pomeroy, b. Aug. 19, 1827. +
4614 Leander Tudor Pomeroy, b. Dec. 7, 1829. +
4615 Sterling Pomeroy, b. Oct. 28, 1832; m.
4616 Vespatian Pomeroy, b. March 13, 1835.
4617 De Lacoeur Pomeroy, b. Aug. 13, 1836. +
4618 Augusta Pomeroy, b. Feb. 5, 1839. +
2203 HON. OREN POMEROY, (Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph. Elf-
weed), b. Feb. 17, 1799, at Somers, Conn.; m. Dec. 31, 1822, Lu-
cinda Pomeroy, (2311), b. May 19, 1801, d. May 15, 1887, dau. of
Samuel Pomeroy and Catherine Day ; he d. Feb. 4, 1882, at Somers,
Conn. Bom in Somers, lived a useful life and d. there, he was
a worthy representative of the sturdy Puritan stock which has
given so much strength to the American character. He was a
deacon of the church, colonel in the militia, and a representative in
the state legislature. While contributing his full share to the
guidance and maintenance of church and state, he reared and edu-
cated a large family, making the rocky hills of a mountain farm
support all in a way that seems scarcely credible in these days of
abandoned farms. For about forty years he was a member of the
church choir, with which he sang bass, and had a rich voice and
musical ear.
As has been said. Deacon Oren Pomeroy was a farmer. At
that period this was a more inclusive term than now, and his
activities were more than usually varied. He had large interests
in lumbering, stock-raising, wine-making, etc. For many years
he supplied a large share of the grape wine used in New England
for communion and medicinal purposes, but would never sell it
for beverage. He was a man of strict integrity and sensitive
scrupulousness in matters of bargain and trade, but that did not
prevent him from prospering in worldly affairs. In appearance as
well as in fact, he was a gentleman of the "old school,'' and a
man to be noted, whether in the high hat and careful black dress
of the prominent citizen, or the blue and red uniform of the mili-
tary officer.
yth gen. Children, 6. at Somers, Conn.:
4619 LuciNDA Pomeroy, b. Oct. 15, 1823; graduate. Mount Holyoke
Seminary; d. July 17, 1895, at Somers; unm.
4620 Elijah Pomeroy, b. Feb. 9, 1826; d. in infancy.
4621 Sarah Catherine Pomeroy, b. June 11, 1828. +
4622 Harriet Strong Pomeroy, b. July 8, 1830; graduate. Mount
Holyoke Seminary; she was a successful teacher for many years,
and a member of the school committee of Somers; d. April 25,
1900; unm.
4623 Oren Pomeroy, b. June 4, 1832; d. 1832.
4624 Oren Day Pomeroy, M.D., b. Oct. 11, 1834. +
4625 Emily Pomeroy, b. Nov. 16, 1836; m. Sept. 6, 1860, Rev. Edwin
linn. (9rrn (omrrag
(2203)
i^bctli (KrttrrafUm - Manpff
Cone Bissell, (George, George, Elisha, John, John, Samuel, John),
b. March 2, 1832, at Schoharie, N. Y. ; gr. Amherst College, M.A.,
1855, and D.D., 1874; gr. Lake Forest University, LL.D.; student
at the Theological Institute of Connecticut; gr. Union Seminair,
1859; ordained pastor at Westhampton, Sept. 21, 1859. In 1861
he accepted a commission as Captain of Co. K, 52d Mass. Vol.
Inf., serving three years in the Civil War. After being mustered
out he was editor of the Pacific two years; pastor of Fort Street
Church, Honolulu, Hawaii Islands, 1869; missionary at Innsbruck,
Austria, 1873; studied Hebrew at Leipsic, Germany, 1880; elected
Nettleton Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in Theo*
logical Institute at Hartford, Conn.; published ''Historic Origin of
the Bible," 1872, etc.; called to Chicago, 1892; no children.
4626 Ruby Louisa Pomeroy, b. Oct. 15, 1838. H-
4627 Cyrus Newton Pomeroy, b. June 14, 1840. +
4628 Ellen Pomeroy, b. June 11, 1842; d. 1846.
4629 Hiram Sterling Pomeroy, M.D., b. Jan. 22, 1848. +
2204 HON. WARREN POMEROY, (Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. 1801, at Somers, Conn.; m. Lucetta Wardwell, b. 1801,
at Stafford, Conn., d. 1890, dau. of Norman Wardwell; he d. 1891.
Capitalist. Representative in the State Legislature from Hartford,
Conn. Res., San Jose, Cal.
Jth gen. Children, b. at Somers, Conn.:
4630 Delia Pomeroy, m. George Parker; she d. April, 1892, at Hart-
ford, Conn, ; s. p.
4631 Carlos Pomeroy, b. 1829; d. April 3, 1834, at Somers, Conn.
4632 George Washington Pomeroy, b. about 1830.
4633 Julius Pomeroy, b. about 1832; accidentally shot while playing
with a loaded gun ; d. April 3, 1838, ae. 6 years.
4634 Emily A. Pomeroy, d. Feb. 21, 1836, ae. 4 years.
4635 Capt. Julian Pomeroy, b. Nov. 14, 1833. +
4636 Marshall Pomeroy, b. Feb. 10, 1835. +
4637 Everett Pomeroy, b. Dec. 17, 1839. +
4638 Adrian M. Pomeroy, d. Jan. 17, 1839, ae. 8 mos.
2206 CHESTER POMEROY, (Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph, Elhveed),
b. Dec. 5, 1805, at Somers, Conn.; m. Isabel Edwards, b. Sept. 9,
1809, at Mays Landing. N. J.; d. May 1, 1892; he d. Jan. 29, 1882.
Resided in Illinois.
yth gen. Children:
4639 William Henry Pomeroy, b. May 7, 1840, at Centerville, Ohio;
m. April 10, 1889, Flora Adell Sherman, b. Jan. 20, 1848, at May-
ville, N. Y., dau. of Beman B. Sherman and wife Olive Scott;
farmer; no children. Res., Edgerton, Wis.
4640 Hiram Sterling Pomeroy, b. Sept. 13, 1842. +
4641 John Edward Pomeroy, b. Nov. 11, 1846, at Alexandersville,
Ohio; d. Oct. 11, 1864, at Edgerton, Wis.
4642 Julius Taylor Pomeroy, b. at Carrollton, Ohio.
<Sntralii99 of ttft Pomrrog JTamUQ 424
2207 HARRIET POMEROY, (//tram, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed),
b. 1807, at Somers, Conn.; m. Dec. 22, 1837, Rufus Hubbard, b.
June 19, 1789, at Glastonburg, Conn., d. May 3, 1880, son of David
Hubbard (a soldier of the Revolution and Deacon in the Con-
gregational church of Glastonburg) and Jemima Chamberlin. Har-
riet Pomeroy was Mr. Hubbard's second wife, and became the
mother of six children inherited from his first wife, Laura Squires,
and those children "Rise up and call her blessed." She d. Dec. 4,
1842. Res., Geneseo, 111.
yth gen. Children of Rufus Hubbard and Laura Squires, adopted
by Harriet Pomeroy, (his second wife):
4643 William Hubbard, b. May 20, 1812; m.; d. Feb. 27, 1870, at
Sandusky, Ohio.
4644 David Hubbard, b. April 10, 1816; m. at Woodville, Ohio; d.
Dec, 1842.
4645 Anson Hubbard, b. Oct. 10, 1818; m. in 1843, Maryetta Moore
of Auburn, N. Y. ; she d. Nov. 10, 1905, at Moline, 111.
4646 Maria Hubbard, b. Dec. 11, 1820; m. DeWitt C. Dimock of Wel-
lington, Conn., 1842.
4647 Cornelius Allen Hubbard, b. May 8, 1824; m. in California.
4648 Cornelia Ellen Hubbard, b. (twin with Cornelius) May 8, 1824.
22(fd LAURA POMEROY, (Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed), b.
1811, Somers, Conn.; m. Rufus Sikes, Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1807, Spring-
field, Mass., son of Rufus Sikes; she d. Feb , Bristol, Conn.
7th gen. Children, b. Springfield, Mass.:
4649 Laura Sikes.
4651 Henrietta Sikes, b. 1836; unm. ; d. Nov., 1900, Bristol, Conn.
4652 Elizabeth M. Sikes, b. May 16, 1840; unm.
4653 Rufus Sikes, b. Feb. 12, 1844; unm.; military service in the
Union army during the Civil War; lives at Soldiers' Home, Noro-
ton, Conn.
4654 Daughter, b. April, 1846; d. young.
4655 Chauncey Sikes, b. Feb. 2, 1848; d. young, Springfield.
4656 Frances Sikes, b. May 1, 1855; d. young, Springfield.
4657 James Frank Sikes, b. May 1, 1855, (twin with Frances) ; d.
Oct. 1, 1861.
4658 Harriet Sikes, b.; m. Thomas Barber.
8th gen. Child of Harriet and Thomas Barber, (4658):
4659 Harry Barber, a musician; m.
2210 CHAUNCEY POMEROY, {Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. Nov. 27, 1813; m. Oct. 17, 1838, Harriet Brown, b.
April 10, 1818, dau. of Jonathan Clark Brown; he was a remark-
able mechanical genius, and became a manufacturer of fine clocks;
one of his clocks in Hartford, Conn., in 1900, required to be
wound but once a year; he d. Sept. 15, 1843, at Forestville; she m.
(2) Sept. 13, 1848, Edwin Olmsted Goodwin.
I^ixtlf (SntrratUm - JosTftli
7th gen. Children:
4660 Helen E. Pomeroy, b. Sept. 9, 1839; d. March 4, 1844.
4661 Hiram Chauncey Pomeroy, b. Sept. 1, 1841; d. March 17, 1844.
4662 Chauncey Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1843. +
2211 MARY POMEROY, (Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph, EUweed), b.
May 12, 1815, Somers, Conn.; m. Noah Denslow Gay, b, Feb. 13,
1814, Springfield, Mass., d. 1894, son of Calvin (Calvin, Lusher,
Lusher, Nathaniel) Gay.
7th gen. Children:
4663 William Gay, b. Springfield, Mass. ; d. Nov. 29, 1843.
4664 Harriet Mary Gay, b. Oct. 15, 1840, Springfield; m. May 25,
1864, Springfield, Daniel J. Marsh, (Michael, John, Hezekiah, John,
John, John), b. July 27, 1837, Hartford, Conn. Treasurer of the
Springfield Five Cents Savings Bank. +
4665 William Henry Gay, b. 1842, Springfield.
4666 Calvin Gay, b. July 12, 1845, Springfield; m. Annie Farwell.
8th gen. Children of Harriet M, and Daniel J. Marsh, (4664):
4667 Henry Daniel Marsh, b. March 15, 1865, Springfield; m. (1)
Anna F. Lillis, b. Aug. 22, 1873, A April 28, 1898; he m. (2)
May 20, 1903, Edith Sherwood Hall, b. Nov. 18, 1881, Amherst,
Mass., dau. of Charles W. Hall and wife Emma P. Redfield. Res.,
Springfield, Mass. +
4668 Oliver Allen Marsh, b. Oct. 15, 1866; m. Anna Rumrill Dwight,
b. July 18, 1867. Res., Fort Washington, N. Y. -f
pth gen. Child of Henry D and Anna F. Marsh, (4667) :
4669 John Atiierton Marsh, b. Jan. 7, 1897, Springfield.
Children of Henry D. and Edith S. Marsh, {2d wife), b. Spring-
Held (4667):
4670 Elizabeth Marsh, b. Dec. 16, 1904.
4671 Daniel J. Marsh, b. Jan. 22, 1907.
4672 Thomas Patten Marsh, b. Sept. 8, 1909.
Children of Oliver A. and Anna R. Marsh, (4668):
4673 Elsie D. Marsh, b. Oct. 5, 1894, New Rochelle, N. Y.
4674 Allen Jay Marsh, b. June 30, 1896. New York City.
4675 Carolyn Marsh, b. Dec. 27, 1900, New York City.
2212 DANIEL BURBANK POMEROY, {Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph,
Eltweed), b. June 8, 1817, at Somers, Conn.; m. Jan. 21, 1841,
Mary Ann Hayes, b. Sept. 22, 1819, d. April 18, 1882.
7th gen. Children:
4676 William D. Pomeroy, b. Feb. 24, 1846. +
4677 Chauncey M. Pomeroy, b. Jan. 23, 1848; d. Sept. 13, 1854.
2214 MIRANDA POMEROY, {Hiram, John, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed),
b. Nov. 16, 1823, at Somers, Conn. ; m. May 8, 1845, Cyrus Cowl,
b. March 30, 1816, at Western (Warren), Mass., d. Sept. 27, 1875,
son of Cyrus Cowl and Susannah Smith; she d. May 1, 1875.
(UrttraUisg of tlft Pomrrog i^amilg 42fi
yth gen. Children, b. at Springfield, Mass.:
4678 CvRus PoMEROY Cowl, b. Feb. 18, 1846; d. July 30, 1847.
4679 Catherine (Kitty) Ruby Cowl, b. April 24, 1848; m. Nov. 10,
1870, Edward L. Hurlburt, b. Aug. 6, 1845, at Somers, Conn., son
of James Hurlburt and Laurana Lathrop. Res., Somers, Conn. +
4680 Mary Frances Cowl, b. Sept. IS, 1849.
4681 Daniel Pomeroy Cole, b. April 22, 1852; m. June 16, 1885, Har-
riet Loraine Brooks, b. Nov. 11, , at Hudson, Ohio, dau. of
Ethan Brooks and Hannah Mather Begg. W^holesale paper dealer.
Res., Springfield, Mass. +
Sth gen. Children of Catherine and Edward L. Hurlburt, b. at
Somers, (4679):
4682 Clara Lucinda Hurlburt, b. Oct. 3, 1873; m. Oct. 11, 1898,
Albert Everett Russell. +
4683 Edith Laurana Hurlburt, b. March 27, 1878; graduate from
Smith College, Northampton, June, 1901.
Children of Daniel P. and Harriet L. Cole, (4681):
4684 Lucy Brooks Cole, b. May 22, 1887, at West Springfield, Mass.;
graduate from Smith College, Northampton, June, 1909.
4686 Dorothy Hopkins Cole, b. Nov. 27, 1894, at Springfield, Mass.
Child of Clara L. and Albert E. Russell, (4682):
4687 Harris Edward Russell, h. March 14, 1903, Hazardville, Conn.
2313 CHARLES BACKUS POMEROY, {Samuel, Joshua. Noah, Jo-
seph, Eltweed), bp. Nov. 23, 1806; m. Sept. 16, 1829, Mary Ann
Hurlburt, b. Sept. 10, 1810, d. Nov. 16, 1873, dau. of Job Hurlburt
of Somers, Conn.; he d. Sept. 5, 1847.
7th gen. Children:
4688 SoPHRONiA Hyde Pomeroy, b. July 31, 1830. +
4689 Hon. Charles Backus Pomeroy, b. May 15, 1832. +
4690 Edward Payson Pomeroy, b. Jan. 3, 1835. +
4691 William Samuel Pomeroy, M.D., b. Feb. IS, 1845. +
2314 SAMUEL POMEROY, (Samuel, Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Elt-
weed), b. April 29, 1812; m. July 13, 1843, Caroline Fuller, b.
Dec. 13, 1820, d. Dec. 27, 1886, dau. of Solomon Fuller; he d.
Sept. 10, 1850, at Somers, Conn.
7th gen. Child:
A692 Samuel Fuller Pomeroy, b. Oct. 10, 1850. +
2316 CYRUS POMEROY, (Joshua, Joshua, Noah, Joseph, El tweed),
b. Oct. 25, 1802, at Wilbraham, Mass. ; m. May 22. 1832, Lucy A.
Tenney, b. Oct. 25, 1812, at Jaffrey, N. H.; he was a public
school teacher, a member of the Congregational church, and for
many years a deacon; in politics a Whig; he d. Sept. 21, 1874, at
Greenwich, Mass.
4Z7 l^ixtif (UrttrnitUm - 3at»pli
Jth gen. Children:
4693 Lucy Emeline Pomeroy, b. Feb. 14, 1833; Williston Seminary;
m. John Adams. Res., Greenwich, Mass.
4694 Henry Tenney Pomeroy, b. Feb. 27, 1838. +
4695 Arthur Humphrey Pomeroy, b. April 10, 1843.
4696 Cyrus Eugene Pomeroy, b. May 23, 1848 ; d. May 28, 1849.
2318 ELIZA POMEROY, {Joshua, Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed),
b. Dec. 3, 1805; m. Feb. 22, 1837, James Whitcomb; she d. June,
1840.
jth gen. Child:
4697 Cyrus Baxter Whitcomb, b. July 2. 1839; m, Jennie Sawyer of
Derby, Conn.: gr. Yale, LL.B., 1874; University of Iowa, LL.B.,
1885. Res., New Haven, Conn. -H
8th ^cn. Children of Cyrus B, and Jennie Whitcomb, (4697):
4698 Herman S. Whitcomb. 4699 Jennie S. Whitcomb.
2349 PERSIS POMEROY, (Joshua, Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed),
b. June 28, 1810; m. May 22, 1832, Amos Jewett Tenney; she d.
June, 1843.
yth gen. Children:
4700 Charles Amos Tenney, b. Jan., 1835; d. Aug., 1846.
4701 Hon. Edward Jewett Tenney, b. Dec, 1837. Resided, Clare-
mont, N. H.
4702 George Pomeroy Tenney, b. Jan., 1839; Union soldier during
the Civil War; after muster out he was in government employ at
Washington, D. C.
2350 MARY POMEROY, (Joshua, Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltwced), b.
Aug. 25, 1813; m. Jonas A. Bartlett of Loudenville, Vt. ; she d.
1835.
7th gen. Children:
4703 Lucy Ann Bartlett, b. March, 1839-40.
4704 Frances Eliza Bartlett, b. 1842; m. Mr. Weeks of Lynden,
Vt. +
4705 Freddie Bartlett, d. soon.
8th gen. Child of Frances E, and Mr, IVeeks, (4704):
4706 Clinton Weeks, lived in Lynden, Vt.
2351 EMILY POMEROY, (Joshua, Joshua, Noah, Joseph, Eltweed),
b. Nov. 30, 1815; m. Oct. 4, 1844, Rev. David Eastman; lived in
Spring^eld, Mass.
7th gen. Children:
4707 Sarah Elizabeth Eastman, b. 1846; d. 1847.
4708 Jonathan Edwards Eastman, b. Feb., 1849; d. 1850.
4709 Mary Persis Eastman, b.; d. in infancy.
4710 Emma Josephine Eastman, b. about 1853; m. Henry Edward
Stone. Res., Spring^eld, Mass.
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